My experience with Answerthis.io was not nearly as productive as Terry Anderson's, which was reported in the current IRRODL, mostly because half way through answering it stopped and asked me for money. Still, Anderson reports that "The tool does a credible job of summarizing ways that other scholars have used the theory. It looks to be both accurate and thorough. In a couple of minutes, AI was able to scour the literature and find applications of the theory, made by others, that I had not heard of nor could have imagined today, much less than when I originally wrote the paper." However, he adds, "It shows that assigning tasks such as this as an assessment activity in a senior undergraduate or graduate course hardly seems worthwhile, given the time and effort taken by a teacher for assessment." And, of course, when you're preparing a literature review for a publication, it's important to have a human do it, not a machine. That's what graduate students are for.
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