Electric Sheep? Humans, Robots, Artificial Intelligence, and the Future of Writing.

With artificial intelligence (AI) now producing human-quality text in seconds via natural language generation, urgent questions arise about the nature and purpose of the teaching of writing in English. Humans have already been co-composing with digital tools for decades, in the form of spelling and...

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Publicado en:Changing English: Studies in Culture & Education Vol. 28; no. 4; pp. 442 - 456
Autor principal: McKnight, Lucinda
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Taylor & Francis Ltd Dec 2021
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