A company has developed software that can compete with human authors in writing news stories. Education Week (4-12-12) put out a similar story about a computer competing with college professors at scoring essays. Extreme Tech carried a story (Will an IBM computer be your next mayor?) about the use of IBM’s Watson to manage the operations of the city of Rio de Janeiro. Clearly the machines will extend into replacing humans everywhere it is cost-advantageous and socially acceptable to do so. In light of these changes, WHAT IS THE MISSION OF EDUCATION?
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Re: Man vs. Computer: Who Wins the Essay-Scoring Challenge?
By Learning-Activist on April 14, 2012 in Artificial Learning, Capital Value Case, Challenge of Change, Technology for Learning
Re: Man vs. Computer: Who Wins the Essay-Scoring Challenge? From Education Week: Curriculum Matters 4-13-2012 “The results demonstrated that overall, automated essay scoring was capable of producing scores similar to human scores for extended-response writing items with equal performance for both source-based and traditional writing genre,” says the study. This is fascinating. Artificial intelligence has already [...]
WAKE UP! THE ROBOTS ARE CALLING
The other night I received a call from the cable company. The voice explained that it was calling about an appointment I had scheduled and asked whether I wanted to keep the appointment, cancel, or reschedule it. After saying I wanted to keep it, the voice asked me if I or someone over 18 would [...]
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