The answer: It was done on purpose but yes, beginners might not get it. /2
Jane Rosenzweig
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Asked ChatGPT for a diagram explaining the writing process to college freshmen (for my course that's about AI) and when I pressed it on the order, it said doubled down that it drew them in this order on purpose to show the "recursive nature" of the process which I guess may be PhD level response? /1
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that would have worked too but wasn't excited to feed a completed paper for my assignment to Grammarly
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"the only reason to write it is if you will have an experience worth having by doing so"
Our job right now, I think: make sure the experience is worth having when we ask students to write in our classrooms
Tried out Grammarly's AI grade predictor. Didn't want to use actual student work, so I had ChatGPT write a paper for one of my assignments and gave that to Grammarly. Grammarly promises to use publicly available info about your instructor to predict what they will say. The advice was not what I /1
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My tests of the AI grader "agent" get a mention in this article about how everything AI everywhere all the time is now an agent.
new chatbot? call it an agent. new software feature? sure, yes, agent. Old feature that's been there for years? It can be an agent if it wants to be, and how dare you suggest otherwise nymag.com/intelligence...
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I don't think I'm on rate my professor but it did seem in my case like it took something I've said publicly and applied it to the comments, which would seem to suggest that I would say that about all papers regardless of content...
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this was my test! I am baffled by the idea of reviewing public info about one's instructor, as if it is a code that can be cracked. bsky.app/profile/jane...
Tried out Grammarly's AI grade predictor. Didn't want to use actual student work, so I had ChatGPT write a paper for one of my assignments and gave that to Grammarly. Grammarly promises to use publicly available info about your instructor to predict what they will say. The advice was not what I /1
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My tests of the AI grader "agent" get a mention in this article about how everything AI everywhere all the time is now an agent.
new chatbot? call it an agent. new software feature? sure, yes, agent. Old feature that's been there for years? It can be an agent if it wants to be, and how dare you suggest otherwise nymag.com/intelligence...
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oh wow, thanks for sharing, @clancyny.bsky.social !
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Here's what comes up from Google AI if I search for George Washington.