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Re:The head of luxury at Facebook and Instagram by ahartmetz on Sunday March 10, 2019 @04:53AM (#19351052)
Grading homework with AI is an idiotic and destructive idea, just saying. "AI" may be able to see superficial similarities between the work to grade and a well-written text, but it won't (in its current state) be able to distinguish gibberish from a good argument. And what does it feel like to pour your heart into something, then have it graded by a machine that doesn't understand because your teacher can't be bothered to even give it a good read?
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Re:The head of luxury at Facebook and Instagram by humanrebar on Sunday March 10, 2019 @05:44AM (#19351209)
Most people don't distinguish between Artificial Intelligence and Augmented Intelligence.

Grading fill in the blank arithmetic exercises seems like a perfect piece of Augmented Intelligence. No gibberish problems until you get to "show your work", and even there, there are options if the business model is there. If the program is able to mark answers as "illegible", the grader can review before confirming. Make take-home grading something that can be done before the children go home for the day.

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Re:The head of luxury at Facebook and Instagram by ahartmetz on Sunday March 10, 2019 @06:24AM (#19351309)
But still, apart from really mechanical yes/no aspects like spelling, I wouldn't want to have anything I write graded by something with which I can't have a normal conversation (a human or strong AI). Would you?
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Re:The head of luxury at Facebook and Instagram by a_t48 on Sunday March 10, 2019 @06:56AM (#19351411)
If you disagree with the grade, you would still have the option of taking it up with the teacher/TA running the grading program.
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Re:The head of luxury at Facebook and Instagram by justin--sane on Sunday March 10, 2019 @05:41AM (#19351196)
Really? That's what you get from this post?
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Re:The head of luxury at Facebook and Instagram by ahartmetz on Sunday March 10, 2019 @06:03AM (#19351257)
When somebody lists something awful as a positive example, it does disturb me and I don't want to let it stand. Is that hard do understand?
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Re:The head of luxury at Facebook and Instagram by barbecue_sauce on Sunday March 10, 2019 @09:55AM (#19351988)
The commenter did not list it as a positive example, just as an example.
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