Tuesday, April 16, 2024

Texas is replacing thousands of human exam graders with AI

Good news! Maybe fairer? Cheaper? 

Ignore those worry wart voices criticizing AI as biased etc. Many of them are ideologues with an agenda!

"... Students in Texas taking their state-mandated exams this week are being used as guinea pigs for a new artificial intelligence-powered scoring system set to replace a majority of human graders in the region. ...
rolled out by the Texas Education Agency (TEA) to grade open-ended questions on the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR) exams. The agency is expecting the system to save $15–20 million per year by reducing the need for temporary human scorers, with plans to hire under 2,000 graders this year compared to the 6,000 required in 2023. ..."

Texas is replacing thousands of human exam graders with AI - The Verge

Credits: Last Week in AI

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