students use AI to generate essays; educators use AI to grade it… AI that is built on the backbone of stolen data and packaged as a shiny EdTech tool that educational institutes have to pay a fortune for… folks, do you see who benefits from all of this?
No matter who says that these tools aren’t intended to replace teachers or how many times it’s said, that’s exactly what will happen. (Or it will be used as a justification for eliminating teacher jobs because now teachers can “grade” more efficiently) www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-t...
There’s an 80s movie where they show a lecture theatre full of students and, as term progresses, more and more students are replaced by tape recorders. Eventually the professor is replaced with a reel-to-reel tape machine—there are no real people there at all! This the future #AI companies envisage.
The movie was loosely based on Caltech. I think that scene referred to the indifference at the time of many of the faculty to teaching. I was there around that time. Attendance at lectures at poorly taught classes fell through the quarter. We relied on notes taken by the friends who did attend.
Exactly, though as I remember it the faculty member was the last one to be replaced, before which he is lecturing to a room full of tape recorders! (A bit like teaching on Zoom 😉)
I was, and am, one of those critics. I’ve opposed this grading tech since around 2000, when ETS was making claims of human equivalence in grading for latent semantic analysis.
But I still think the tech (sans the data theft, obviously) can be used formatively to give students feedback.
