Amazement and Trepidation: Implications of AI-Based Natural Language Production for the Teaching of Writing

AI-based natural language production systems are currently able to produce unique text with minimal human intervention. Because such improving at a very fast pace, teachers who expect students their own writing—engaging in the complex processes of generating and organizing ideas, researching topics, drafting coherent prose, using feedback make principled revisions that both improve quality help them develop as writers—will confront prospect can use human-looking without engaging these processes. In this article, we first describe nature capabilities GPT-3, then offer some suggestions for how instructors might meet challenges increasing improvement availability students.