Andy Matuschak on Twitter: "@catherineols Really interesting to me how much feature engineering still seems to play a role in this field's major players. I wonder when it'll all get absorbed into the network like in other spaces, and how that'll change the behaviors." / Twitter

A fun piece of adversarial ML: the adversaries are *human* essay-writers trying to fool an NLP-powered essay rating system into giving high scores to crap essays... *or* low scores to subtly brilliant ones! (sadly, I don't see the raw essays, but the descriptions still shine)

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Andy Matuschak

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· Jun 13, 2018

I was feeling pretty dispirited in the midst of a literature review on automatic essay scoring systems (

), but this paper on an

adversarial essay writing contest

fooling the scoring system totally made my day. doi.org/10.1002/j.2333

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Really interesting to me how much feature engineering still seems to play a role in this field's major players. I wonder when it'll all get absorbed into the network like in other spaces, and how that'll change the behaviors.

10:53 PM · Jun 13, 2018Twitter Web Client

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