AI feedback loops in higher ed?

Will new “generative AI” models like ChatGPT end up self-imploding in endless feedback loops? Check out this report by Samantha Murphy Kelly titled “Teachers are using AI to grade essays“. Hat tip: Brian Leiter. Below is my favorite part:

And parents and students who are already spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on tuition may wonder if an endless feedback loop of AI-generated and AI-graded content in college is worth the time and money.

“If teachers use it solely to grade, and the students are using it solely to produce a final product, it’s not going to work,” said Gayeski.

Thanks ChatGPT! (Sarcasm voice.)

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Monday music: River Kwai March

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Cairo, Egypt

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Friday funnies: fanciful novels

A recent cartoon for the Guardian Review
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Today in music history

On this day (11 April) in 1727, Johann Sebastian Bach’s St Matthew Passion (BWV 244b) was performed for the first time at the Thomaskirche (Church of St. Thomas; see here), a Lutheran church in Leipzig (Electorate of Saxony).

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Wikipedia Wednesday: Clarke’s three laws

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarke%27s_three_laws

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." |  CCCB LAB
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Twitter Tuesday Challenge

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Solar Eclipse Monday

What a time to be alive! If you would like to watch today’s solar eclipse virtually, NASA has a great option; hat tip: Dr Jamie Rodriguez: https://science.nasa.gov/eclipses/future-eclipses/eclipse-2024/. Also, as it happens, today (April 8) is the 50th anniversary of Hank Aaron’s historic 715th home run:

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Sunday song: *Seven*

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