The Agency of Artificial Intelligence - Language Magazine

Artificial intelligence is doing something that is human-like, doing things that appear human in terms of performance, although more recently, it's become more associated with some of the modern kinds of machine-learning-type approaches, using large amounts of data. You don't want to think about AI as being general intelligence like a human's. It works within a narrow domain and it tends to be applied in specific areas, but the term has become very widely used for anything where there's some kind of decision-making process done by computers. There are several different kinds of things that AI is able to do for language learning and literacy. One of the areas I think is key is the assessment of more open-ended responses, of things that beforehand were thought to be only at the level that could be assessed by humans.