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Australia To Grade Written Essays In National Exam With Cognitive Computing
New submitter purnima writes: Australia keeps on giving and giving. Each year school kids in Australia sit The National Assessment Program (NAPLAN) which in part tests literacy. The exam includes a written page-long essay aimed at examining both language aptitude and literacy of students. Of course, human-marking of such essays is costly (twenty teacher-minutes per exam). So some bright spark has proposed that the essays be marked by computer. The government is convinced and the program is slated for the 2017 school year. Aside from the moral issues, is AI ready for this major task?
Each year school kids in Australia sit The National Assessment Program (NAPLAN) which in part tests literacy.
Can we get this AI to test Slashdot summaries?
Tic-Tac-Toe, Global Thermonuclear War, and relationships all have the same winning move.
Adverb clause, independent clause conjunction independent clause dependent clause. Subject, adjective clause, verb prepositional phrase? Participle phrase subject verb conjunction dependent clause!
Emoticon.
We don't have a state-run media we have a media-run state.
Eye halve a spelling chequer
It came with my pea sea
It plainly marques four my revue
Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.
Eye strike a key and type a word
And weight four it two say
Weather eye am wrong oar write
It shows me strait a weigh.
As soon as a mist ache is maid
It nose bee fore two long
And eye can put the error rite
Its rare lea ever wrong.
Eye have run this poem threw it
I am shore your pleased two no
Its letter perfect in it’s weigh
My chequer tolled me sew.
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow.
written page-long essay aimed at examining both language aptitude and literacy of students.
So, the same technology used SO effectively to rank resumes will be used with students. Okay, kiddies, remember to stuff a lot of fancy-pants words into it.
Fail: This is sh*t. Go f*ck yourself. I'm not kissing your ass.
PASS: Subjectively, it is blatantly obvious to this observer that the new paradigm, as a cost-saving measure, was inspired by, and mimics, the the natural environmentally safe process of translating organic matter into nutritious compost. This has the outcome of allowing everyone who is in a paid position to devote the time saved to stress-relieving activities such as self-pleasuring, resulting in both a higher awareness of the need to practice good hygiene by such prophylactic procedures as more frequent hand-washing, and use of tissues to properly dispose of organic residue, though it could also negatively impact on their visual acuity over time.. Affected students should refrain from overtly engaging in behavior with superior's inferior posteriors to avoid being perceived as having a brown proboscis by their peers, with the associated negative impact on their social placement in the student hierarchy.
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
Aside from the moral issues, is AI ready for this major task?
Moral issues aside?!? I'm sorry, but the moral issues are front and center here. Australia is seriously proposing to bore an AI to death, or at least drive it insane, buy having it grade hundreds of thousands of grade school essays. This is an outrage!
The winning entry will be a heart warming story about a robot that kills all humans.
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?