AlexTully

Goals related to OpenAI:

My current project is to train an AI to help in my language tutoring work
I’m also interested in using Dall-E 2 to create images to use in my work
My long-term life goal is to merge myself into AI completely
An AI is only as good as what you feed into it, so personal growth is a critical component of the above goal

Work:

I tutor English one-on-one to Japanese adults (businesspeople, academics, housewives, public servants, tour guides, university students, all walks of life). My approach is similar to Community Language Learning (an offshoot of Rogerian counselling), but with 21st century technology.
I switched to doing this over Zoom in April 2020. This got me thinking a lot about how we can use technology to learn, and this eventually led me to OpenAI.

Education:

Master’s degree in Linguistics from Australian National University - My thesis was on Natural Semantic Metalanguage primes in second language learning.
Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics from Melbourne University - I completed the Discrete Mathematics sub-major. I also did final year subjects in Probability and Organic Chemistry.

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Future goals not related to OpenAI:

I want to restart my digital nomad lifestyle now that I work remotely
I want to experience living in Georgia (the country in the Caucasus mountains), in Mae Sot (in the mountains on the Thai-Burma border), and on Koh Chang (an island in Thailand near the Cambodian border)
I hope to make my mind more flexible by learning an ergative language (such as Georgian)
Another way I hope to expand my mind is by learning Haskell
I want to study STEM subjects on MIT’s Open Course Ware
My E-Reader has a large number of books from Project Gutenberg, and I’d like to get through some of them

Books that have influenced me (starting with what I’ve read most recently):