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Should Chatbots Tutor? Dissecting That Viral AI Demo With Sal Khan and His Son

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And yes, when I was a freshman at MIT, I sought out for my freshman adviser and he ended up being my freshman adviser, Patrick Henry Winston , who was head of the artificial intelligence laboratory. In fact, it's most valuable in a teaching setting because a teacher's in a class of 30, these kids are at all different levels.

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Why ‘Black Box’ Software Isn’t Ready to Teach College

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But she has real ambivalence about how adaptive learning is moving from the laboratory to the classroom. Just as professors wouldn’t bring in a teaching assistant they couldn’t talk to or collaborate with, they shouldn’t adopt interactive tools that are mysterious and locked.