Category Archives: Creativity

Talking with ChatGPT about Google Sites

Posted on December 18, 2025 by Katherine Wikoff

This is final exam week at Milwaukee School of Engineering, where I teach. While I’m busy grading and wrapping up this semester, at the same time I’m trying to make sure I capture some “lessons learned” for future semesters teaching … Continue reading →

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(𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘴) C O O O o o ʟ

Posted on December 5, 2025 by Katherine Wikoff

As I was putting on my coat yesterday afternoon to head out to my 3:00 PM class, I noticed what appeared to be a smudge or scuff on the wall near my office window. Slightly upsetting. Not only was it … Continue reading →

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Is AI Frying Our Brains? (Spoiler: No)

Posted on November 19, 2025 by Katherine Wikoff

Well, buckle up or click away; this is going to be a long one. I started writing my “Creative Practice in the Age of AI” series of posts 1) because I was personally curious enough about generative AI (GenAI) and … Continue reading →

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The Saga of My Pumpkin Illustration (aka, ChatGPT’s comical failure)

Posted on October 6, 2025 by Katherine Wikoff

On Friday I posted my comparison of Public AI’s attempt at writing an autumn poem versus ChatGPT’s—a head-to-head challenge that ChatGPT won handily. Then to illustrate my post, I asked ChatGPT to create a quick, simple image of pumpkins for … Continue reading →

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Apertus (Public AI) versus ChatGPT in a poetry challenge

Posted on October 3, 2025 by Katherine Wikoff

I love the idea of the Swiss AI Initiative’s Apertus and Public AI. As sort of the Linux of LLMs, Apertus, via the Public AI Initiative, aspires to democratize generative AI: Public AI refers to the development, deployment, and maintenance … Continue reading →

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Portrait of a Textile Worker (and Milwaukee’s Water Tower Dragon)

Posted on September 23, 2025 by Katherine Wikoff

I’m teaching two sections of the freshman composition class at MSOE, and among the things we cover in this course are how to “read” art as a “text” and how to talk about any work of art. We spend about … Continue reading →

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New “bloom patterns” type of origami introduces new possibilities in engineering

Posted on August 22, 2025 by Katherine Wikoff

One of my favorite scenes in the movie Working Girl comes near the end, where our heroine, Tess (Melanie Griffith), seizes a last-ditch opportunity to stop her boss, Katherine (Sigourney Weaver) from stealing her deal. After Jack (Harrison Ford) corrals … Continue reading →

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“The Art of Forgetting” – A short story, plus my start-to-finish ChatGPT creative conversation

Posted on August 19, 2025 by Katherine Wikoff

This week’s short-short story, “The Art of Forgetting,” was fun to write. Before I go any further, here are the relevant PDFs for this week’s post. First, HERE is the PDF of my short story, “The Art of Forgetting.” And HERE is my … Continue reading →

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I See What You Mean

Posted on August 11, 2025 by Katherine Wikoff

Today’s post is something different for me. My friend Kathleen is editor of a newsletter that publishes fiction, poetry, and essays. Because her publication is limited to black-and-white reproduction of images, and the article below contains a color image, she … Continue reading →

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The Influence of Influences

Posted on August 7, 2025 by Katherine Wikoff

Inspiration may strike, but creativity accumulates. One is lightning in a bottle; the other is molasses—slow to pour, but sticky enough to catch the stray ephemera that lend rich flavor to whatever artistic projects you’ve got baking. Creativity is not … Continue reading →

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