AI Shows Racial Bias When Grading Essays — and Can’t Tell Good Writing From Bad
Smith: Study finds ChatGPT replicates human prejudices and fails to recognize exceptional work — reinforcing the inequalities it's intended to fix.
That’s why schools and educators must carefully consider when and how to utilize AI for scoring. Rather than replacing grading, they could provide feedback on grammar or paragraph structure while leaving the final assessment to the teacher.
Researchers have been putting ChatGPT essays to the test against real students. A new study reveals that the AI generated essays don't yet live up to the efforts of real students. While the AI essays were found to be impressively coherent and grammatically sound, they fell short in one crucial area -- they lacked a personal touch. It is hoped that the findings could help educators spot cheating in schools, colleges and universities worldwide by recognizing machine-generated essays.
The effect of ChatGPT on students’ learning performance, learning perception, and higher-order thinking: insights from a meta-analysis - Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications - The effect of ChatGPT on students’ learning performance, learning perception, and higher-order thinking: insights from a meta-analysis
Chegg to lay off 22% of workforce as AI tools shake up edtech industry
Chegg said on Monday it would lay off about 22% of its workforce, or 248 employees, to cut costs and streamline its operations as students increasingly turn to AI-powered tools such as ChatGPT over traditional edtech platforms.
China issues guidelines to promote AI education in primary and secondary schools
China’s Ministry of Education (MOE) has recently issued two guidelines to promote artificial intelligence (AI) education in primary and secondary schools by building a tiered, progressive and spiraling general AI education system, prohibiting students from independently using open-ended content generation at primary schools and banning teachers from using generative AI as a substitute for their core teaching responsibilities.
Implicit Bias in Large Language Models: Experimental Proof and Implications for Education
We provide experimental evidence of implicit racial bias in a large language model (specifically ChatGPT) in the context of an authentic educational task and discuss implications for the use of these tools in educational contexts. Specifically, we presented ChatGPT with identical student writing passages alongside various descriptions of student demographics, include race, socioeconomic status, and school type.
Generative AI like ChatGPT is at risk of creating new gender gap at work
Artificial intelligence tools such as ChatGPT can be a boon for productivity, but when it comes to adopting the technology, a significant gender gap exists.
But when researchers looked at the demographics, they discovered that women were 16 percentage points less likely than men to use ChatGPT for job tasks, even when comparing workers within the same occupation and with similar job responsibilities.
Agatha Christie, Who Died in 1976, Will See You in Class
An avatar of the long-dead British novelist is “teaching” an online writing course. But do we want to learn from a digital prosthetic built by artificial intelligence?
OpenAI Adds Shopping to ChatGPT in a Challenge to Google
OpenAI is launching a shopping experience inside of ChatGPT, complete with product picks and buy buttons. WIRED spoke with Adam Fry, the company’s search product lead, to ask how it all works.
Engineered for Attachment: The Hidden Psychology of AI Companions | Punya Mishra's Web
Dishonest Anthropomorphism is about the kinds of design choices made by these companies to leverage our ingrained tendency to attribute human-like qualities to non-human entities. Emulated empathy describes how AI systems intentionally seek to simulate genuine emotional understanding, misleading users about the true nature of the interaction.