This Former Teacher is Using Artificial Intelligence to Hack Education

Matthew Ramirez was teaching writing classes to students at the University of California at Berkeley when he started to get frustrated. He was spending the majority of his time giving repetitive feedback to students, and there wasn't enough time to provide truly constructive, in-depth feedback to each individual before the next essay was due. "Given the time constraints of a semester and the number of students in a class, it wasn't humanly possible to respond to everything I wanted to," Ramirez said in an interview. "Nor was it possible to work through multiple drafts with individual students." Ramirez took it upon himself to build a solution.