[Air-L] Discussion of ChatGPT and other AIs and their uses

[Joly MacFie]

Have you also tried Claude, for comparison?

Joly

On Sat, Mar 7, 2026 at 2:17 AM Peter Timusk via Air-L <
air-l at listserv.aoir.org> wrote:

> Hello I haven't really posted to this list for a decade or more I think. I
> work in statistical computing these days and rarely spend time on my
> employer's ( Statistics Canada) Internet Use surveys though I did write one
> short study in 2009.
>
> At work we do a lot of statistical computing and even analysts are
> expected to be able to calculate statistics for their own papers. We are
> moving off the statistical computing language SAS and going open source
> with R and Python. We are also expected to start exploring AI for use in
> making things more efficient and saving money.but also to do so with high
> ethical standards and of course working within our culture of citizen and
> business data privacy.
>
> I just wanted to write this email to see if there is any discussion
> possible here via email.
>
> I have used AI for the past few months to do some volunteer work. Here I am
> making an online collection of PDFs into a searchable set of blog posts on
> a Word Press site. I have learned that one can ask long search questions to
> ChatGPT and it will produce code examples and workflows, say to show me how
> to use R and the PDFTools an R package to extract text from these PDFs. I
> generally have to know what I am looking for to ask the questions but
> am happy so far with the results of this AI use. I also have to read the
> code and understand the loops and logic going on which allows my
> programming experience to validate the results.
>
> I am about to use Python suggested by ChatGPT to make an offline archive of
> all my Facebook posts from 2007 to now and also publish these in some neat
> fashion to a WordPress blog.
>
> anyways hoping to join the discussions on AI bias and ethics that have been
> going on for awhile.
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