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Can Artificial Intelligence teach you to write better?

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Society & Culture, Science, Technology

4.61.3K Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2019

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Students across the country are graded by artificial intelligence. But can an algorithm really know how to write? If you enjoyed this episode, subscribe to Reset for free on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Overcast, Pocket Casts, or your favorite podcast app to get new episodes every week. Links to resources discussed: Flawed Algorithms Are Grading Millions of Students’ Essays How I’m using AI to write my next novel Featuring: @SigalSamuel @ToddFeathers Host: Arielle Duhaime-Ross (@adrs), host and lead reporter of Reset About Recode by Vox: Recode by Vox helps you understand how tech is changing the world — and changing us. Follow Us: Newsletter: Recode Daily Twitter: @Recode Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Hi, this is Arielle Dermeros, the host of Reset, and the Reset team is currently on a break for the holidays. So today we're running one of our early episodes,

0:45.5

which honestly changed how I thought about artificial intelligence,

0:49.1

in both positive and negative ways.

0:52.0

I'm talking about our episode on the AI that's being used

0:55.8

to grade student essays in the US. I hope you'll enjoy it. Happy holidays. A few years ago, David Hart came home from work to find his son and his wife agonizing over a problem.

1:12.0

My son was on the computer and he was in tears.

1:15.0

And my wife was really frustrated and the second I walked in,

1:18.0

she asked me to step in and help out and she was on the point of tears too. His son was in the fourth grade and he had to write an essay for school,

1:30.0

but rather than a hand in the paper to his teacher the next day, he was supposed to submit

1:34.9

the essay online that night. And it would get graded right away.

1:39.3

The website is called Utah Compose, and the way it works is it has automated

1:46.8

essay scoring software. The keyword here is automated. No human required. The grading is done by an algorithm. To pass the assignment,

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