The Artifice of Artificial Intelligence
"The Artifice of AI in Writing Instruction" focuses on implications of AI in
the teaching of writing. Artificial Intelligence has largely failed to live
up to the potential ascribed to it in the 1970s and 1980s. This
presentation will focus on the idea that, at least as far as writing
instruction is concerned, some of that potential may be recovered by our
rethinking our initial concepts regarding AI. One way to approach this
reconception is to move the locus of the primary intelligence from the
computer software to the human agent depending on that software. In other
words the artificial intelligence grows out of the actual interaction
between computer software and the human agent. In effect the human becomes
a virtual cyborg by learning ways to adapt the software to particular
purposes. An example of the application of this concept is the development
of software-based parsing programs that writers might use to develop
databases of their own writing, including characterizations of their choices
of diction and style and of their own patterns of error. Such
human/computer created text-stores could be used both by the experienced and
the novice writer to aid in the analysis of their own prose. Collections of
these databases could be created for students enrolled in a writing course
to help writing instructors categorize and document patterns of student
error and trends in their growth.
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