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If you are looking for an answer to the question What is Artificial Intelligence? and you only have a minute, then here's the definition the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence offers on its home page: "the scientific understanding of the mechanisms underlying thought and intelligent behavior and their embodiment in machines."

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The End Of Multiple Choice? The Quest To Create Accurate Robot Essay Graders

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What's the best way to prove you "know" something? A. Multiple choice tests B. Essays C. Interviews D. None of the above Go ahead: argue with the premise of the question. Oh yeah, you can't do that on multiple-choice tests. Essays can often better gauge what you know. Writing is integral to many jobs. But despite the fact that everyone can acknowledge that they're a more useful metric, we don't demand students write much on standardized tests because it's daunting to even imagine grading millions of essays.

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