Grammarly announced nine new AI agents integrated into its product. Definitions of "agents" vary: OpenAI calls them systems that pursue complex goals with limited supervision, and Google defines them as software that uses AI to pursue goals and complete tasks for users. New Grammarly agents include an AI Grader that estimates assignment grades by looking up instructors and public teaching info, a citation finder to back claims, feedback inspired by experts, simulated reader reactions, a humanizer, and a paraphraser. Concerns include functionality, ethics, and redundancy with existing features; independent testing found poor results.
The "AI Grader" tool claims to be able to estimate an assignment's grade by "looking up your instructor," "reviewing public teaching info," and "identifying key grading priorities." Setting aside whether such a feature is ethical, useful, or even functional - Jane Rosenzweig, Director of the Harvard College Writing Center, found nothing redeeming in testing - such a feature might fit a bare description of an agent. You give it a task, and it does a couple of unpredictable things in its attempt to fulfill it.
Last week, Grammarly, the popular writing assistance tool, announced the arrival of nine new "agents" in its software. Agents sit somewhere between a buzzword and an AI term of art, and definitions vary. OpenAI, for example, calls agentic AI "systems that can pursue complex goals with limited direct supervision," which leaves a lot of room for interpretation. Google defines them as "software systems that use AI to pursue goals and complete tasks on behalf of users."
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