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The future will be teachers using AI to grade essays that students used AI to generate. Actually, an AI grader in student hands would allow them to get continu

The future will be teachers using AI to grade essays that students used AI to generate. Actually, an AI grader in student hands would allow them to get continuous feedback on their writing, leading to something that would ultimately grade well if the teacher graded it by themselves or not; in that case the LLM is just teaching the kid how to write instead of the teacher, and might be a real valid use of AI. No, the real dangers is that the writing will become very dry and overly polished, looking more and more like corp speak that executives use to communicate in emails, sucking the humanity out of writing. If AI can ever really understand word rhythm (if you write a lot, you know this concept in one form or another), we are doomed.

beej71 3y ago
I was thinking about that when I wrote a letter of recommendation for one of my students. I could have used AI to do it, but I wanted to give it an actual human touch. It occurred to me at the time, that they probably got a lot of letters of recommendation. And it wouldn't surprise me one bit if they used AI to assess them. Which of course got me thinking that we could just cut out all this writing business and have a one click solution to generate the letter of recommendation and then have it assessed. And we could use the same thing for cover letters, marketing copy, and anything else that's bullshit. :)
- ALittleLight 3y ago
  One click is aiming too low. We could get to zero click letters of recommendation. Student's AI (SAI) predicts student will want to apply for college. Based off student's preferences, interests, conversations, queries, browser history, SAI predicts you would be a good source to ask for a reference and fires off a request. Your AI (YAI) fields the request and consults your gradebook, notes, security camera footage of your student in and around class, and your own idiosyncrasies and comes up with a general idea of how strong your letter of recommendation would be. YAI and SAI then negotiate whether the student would want to ask for your letter of recommendation given how strong it would likely be. Once an agreement is reached, YAI composes the letter, leaves a message for you that it is about to your recommend a student allowing you a short window to edit or countermand.
vrighter 3y ago
a recent south park episode was about exactly this

beej71 3y ago

I was thinking about that when I wrote a letter of recommendation for one of my students. I could have used AI to do it, but I wanted to give it an actual human touch. It occurred to me at the time, that they probably got a lot of letters of recommendation. And it wouldn't surprise me one bit if they used AI to assess them. Which of course got me thinking that we could just cut out all this writing business and have a one click solution to generate the letter of recommendation and then have it assessed. And we could use the same thing for cover letters, marketing copy, and anything else that's bullshit. :)

ALittleLight 3y ago
One click is aiming too low. We could get to zero click letters of recommendation. Student's AI (SAI) predicts student will want to apply for college. Based off student's preferences, interests, conversations, queries, browser history, SAI predicts you would be a good source to ask for a reference and fires off a request. Your AI (YAI) fields the request and consults your gradebook, notes, security camera footage of your student in and around class, and your own idiosyncrasies and comes up with a general idea of how strong your letter of recommendation would be. YAI and SAI then negotiate whether the student would want to ask for your letter of recommendation given how strong it would likely be. Once an agreement is reached, YAI composes the letter, leaves a message for you that it is about to your recommend a student allowing you a short window to edit or countermand.

vrighter 3y ago

a recent south park episode was about exactly this