I have nothing to do with the event being advertised in this post and probably wouldn't recommend it. But the title prompted me to want to make what I think is a pretty important distinction (one I'm quite sure the authors had no intention of making). Eric Tucker writes, "Today, emerging breakthroughs offer an unprecedented opportunity to shatter traditional testing constraints... Advancing Multimodal AI, Measurement, and Assessment Innovation." Now I had just finished reading Julian Stodd's post describing a 'value architecture' and was thinking how in today's society everything is reduced to quantification by number (and hence, money). A Value(s) kind of thing. But - I was thinking as I saw this - AI doesn't measure the way (say) an instrument or meter of some sort measures. It senses (which made me think of Harold Jarche). It is at once much more fine-grained than any instrument and at the same time far more coarse. We think of 'machine assessment' as though a calculator were doing it. But human sensesation - a capacity to recognize - is probably a much better metaphor.
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