Tag: AI
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The Authorbot Diaries: Creative writing from the mind of a machine
This is the third post in a series (of two posts… so clearly I got carried away) on AI writers and their possible use in the English classroom, and education as a whole. For the previous posts, see here: Do Androids Dream of Electric Essays? AI in the English Classroom I, Writerbot: Critical Literacy in…
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Essays? AI in the English Classroom
Rise of the Machines The term artificial intelligence was coined as early as 1956, at a conference in Dartmouth College, New Hampshire. After a brief flurry of activity, government interest – and funding – dropped off dramatically until the 1980s, and it wasn’t until the 1990s that IBM’s Deep Blue caught the public eye when…