Last spring, my team and I partnered with Ethiqly, an education startup looking to explore how AI might help students learn how to be better writers. At a time when everyone was concerned about kids using AI to cheat, they wanted to discover how it could enhance learning and teaching for the better.
While we immersed ourselves in the traditional design process—sketching, interacting with students and teachers, and finding inspiration out in the world—it became clear that understanding the AI that underpinned the product was critical to our success. So we dove into using the underlying technology ourselves.
The data scientist on our team started by constructing a simplified Python version of one of Ethiqly’s significant…
