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One big advantage of this, if it ever becomes decent: iteration. Make it available to students. They can write an essay, submit, and get feedback on it. Repeat
by scarmig 14y ago
One big advantage of this, if it ever becomes decent: iteration.
Make it available to students. They can write an essay, submit, and get feedback on it. Repeat.
It'd be difficult to get a machine to bring someone to great writing. But clear, concise prose that gets to the point? That seems reachable. And that would be an improvement over the status quo.
In other words, machines won't anytime soon be able to know that a Wodehouse is superior to an Orwell. But an Orwell to, say, a Thomas Friedman or typical ninth grader? Totally.
- mikeash 14y agoIt would be fun to hook this up to, say, a Markov chain with weights adjusted by a genetic algorithm, or other sort of machine learning with text generation, to automatically produce an essay that scores high.
- notahacker 14y agoMachines will also "know" that the course leaders' model essays put through a bog standard article-spinner are superior to Orwell.