A computer program to write your essays
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A computer program to write your essays
A writing professor at MIT has developed a computer program that writes a college essay in one second, after you input a few key words and it actually scores pretty well on an online grading system meant for actual human student writing.
The idea isn’t to fool your professor; it’s attempt to show that computers that grade exam essays can be totally tricked into giving high marks.
Les Perelmen, a recently-retired MIT professor who worked with students to develop the program, generated a sample for Marketplace on the subject of the future of education and technology. The essay begins:
“Teaching has not, and no doubt never will be exemplary. Human society will always regret didactics; some of avocations and others for an accession. A lack of didactics lies in the field of literature but also the field of philosophy. Teaching is the most cordially arrogant trope of mankind. “
What does it actually mean? We’re not sure, but it merited a whopping 5.6 out of 6 score on an online grading tool being marketed to schools as a way to help grade student work. You can see the full breakdown of scores from the essay on the image attached above.
Perelmen, who is a noted critic of robotic grading, labeled the machine the Basic Automatic B.S. Essay Language Generator, or “BABEL.” He recently wrote an editorial about robo-grading in the Boston Globe and spoke at length with the Chronicle of Higher Education about his program.
The full essay generated by Perelmen’s program for Marketplace can be read below if you have the stomach to make it through the whole thing:
Teaching has not, and no doubt never will be exemplary. Human society will always regret didactics; some of avocations and others for an accession. a lack of didactics lies in the field of literature but also the field of philosophy. Teaching is the most cordially arrogant trope of mankind.
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As I have learned in my semiotics class, technology is the most fundamental affront of humankind. Though interference for presumption inverts, information processes brains. The same pendulum may process two different orbitals to process an orbital. The plasma is not the only thing the brain reacts; it also receives neutrinoes for conjecture with technology. Due to cavorting, audaciously but stridently consummate accessions ascend also on technology. a substantiated education changes the intercession at education.
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Instruction with agreements will always be an experience of human society. In any case, armed with the knowledge that consideration may reclusively be severance, most of the accusations at my contradiction denounce tropes but intercede and surprise salvers which stipulate a countenance. If articulated celebrations allege and enlighten assumptions to the admonishment, pedagogy which retorts sanctions can be more unfavorably sanctioned. Education has not, and undoubtedly never will be misleading but not confidential. Teaching is gregariously but naively postlapsarian as a result of its those in question.
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