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Podcast: Tests and the Rest: College Admissions Podcast
Episode: COLLEGE ESSAYS IN THE AGE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Description: One of the major selling points of the current wave of natural language processing tools driven by AI technology is assistance in composing essays. What, then, are the implications for any admissions process that depends heavily on authentic writing samples? Amy and Mike invited educator Barak Rosenbloom to consider the state of college essays in the age of artificial intelligence. What are five things you will learn in this episode? Can current AI really write as well as humans? What makes the act of writing an application essay intrinsically valuable? Are...