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Re:NLP's Clever Hans Moment Has Arrived by dlkf on Tuesday September 03, 2019 @03:39AM (#20864388)
> The difference is nowadays it's starting to be less of a fringe view, thank heavens.

Well put. The timing is good too, because NLU-is-just-around-the-corner hype is starting to have some really negative social consequences. Yesterday a disturbing article about automated test scoring in the states was trending on HN.

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Re:NLP's Clever Hans Moment Has Arrived by lonelappde on Tuesday September 03, 2019 @09:18AM (#20866192)
Mass production essay grading was a disaster before AI showed up. AI is just automating the mistakes of the past.
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Re:NLP's Clever Hans Moment Has Arrived by grandmczeb on Tuesday September 03, 2019 @02:59PM (#20869908)
Automatic essay grading has been around since the early 2000s. It has literally nothing to do with the current NLP hype.
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