Thanks for this--I just want to point out that currently the newly released Grammarly Authorship does not involve AI detection. The Authorship functionality is just about process tracking and whether text is copy/pasted from Claude or ChatGPT.
The assignments and written papers is a traditional way to check student's knowledge with reasonable cost. A professor could sit and talk with each student and that will give a much better understanding of the student's knowledge but it is prohibitively expensive. Now, instead of forcing students to write a paper with AI so a poor professor could mark it, wouldn't it be better if AI can talk to each student and estimate their knowledge? And then give a summary to a professor who can ask a few more questions and make a decision.
The host does allude to the fact that education is not meant to be merely a job training pipeline. In that light, what if Grammarly is optimizing for education where it is not? This would be odd as a business decision, but maybe most of their customers are in pure science and the humanities? I do agree that detection (where not wanted) is basically a futile arms race.
Thanks for this--I just want to point out that currently the newly released Grammarly Authorship does not involve AI detection. The Authorship functionality is just about process tracking and whether text is copy/pasted from Claude or ChatGPT.
The assignments and written papers is a traditional way to check student's knowledge with reasonable cost. A professor could sit and talk with each student and that will give a much better understanding of the student's knowledge but it is prohibitively expensive. Now, instead of forcing students to write a paper with AI so a poor professor could mark it, wouldn't it be better if AI can talk to each student and estimate their knowledge? And then give a summary to a professor who can ask a few more questions and make a decision.
So you are saying, we should use AI to replace teachers, as a reaction to teachers for using AI.
I'm all for it, let's go.
The host does allude to the fact that education is not meant to be merely a job training pipeline. In that light, what if Grammarly is optimizing for education where it is not? This would be odd as a business decision, but maybe most of their customers are in pure science and the humanities? I do agree that detection (where not wanted) is basically a futile arms race.