Research Reflection

Research Reflection: Are large military budgets needed in the modern day? 

 

I chose modern military budgets because I live in the United States which has the largest military spending of any country on earth. The easiest part was probably reading the articles and decide whether to use the source and access their credibility. The hardest part so far was finding articles which are credible, because most of the articles did not have any sources or their sources were extremely hard to find. I learned that the Tea Party was a big thing back in the early 2000s during the Obama administration and wanted to cut government waste. I never knew about that. Here's the link to the annotated bibliography. 

 

 My thoughts on the current model of chat GPT is that it can go on a little too much. I only want it tell me the facts, critique my ideas, and tell me why they're good or bad. Just tell me what I want to know. I don't want it to tell me if this is a great idea or praise me all the time and use emojis.  I use ChatGPT to give me ideas for the annotated bibliography. First, I told it my hobbies and interests so it could pick things I'd be interested in. Then I told it to give me 5 things that I would be interested in for doing the annotated bibliography. The reason I did not use ChatGPT for finding sources is because it's not reliable because it pulls from everything including social media like Twitter and Reddit. God knows those places should not be trusted. I hope that this model in the future will be less praising and more subservient and just give you facts that can be trusted. 

 

The next day I used an AI specifically built for this class by our professor. It is called Doctor Frankenstein. An AI he built to be used in his class to give access to sources and help students with work. He made it a limited API so it could only access the JCC library. Much like ChatGPT, it was still a little too praising, but not to the extent of ChatGBT. Sources could be trusted because it only pulled from the JCC library. So, it was fine. It did what I needed it to do. I asked it to lead me to a place where I could find articles on military budgets with different views, and it succeeded in that mission. 

 

I feel I am doing well in this course. I have an A and I've gotten all my work done so far. Our next portfolio project will be on brainstorming multiple perspectives on the Topic we researched. Most likely we'll be using the same articles and seeing how their points of view differ. My plan is to follow the teachers instructions to a letter, read the articles again and compare them if that is what we are doing.