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Georgia Tech Is Trying to Keep a ChatGPT-Powered Teaching Assistant From ‘Hallucinating’

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A college probably wouldn’t hire a teaching assistant who tends to lie to students about course content or deadlines. And they’re testing the approach in three online courses this summer. The university has spent many years building its own AI chatbot that it uses as a teaching assistant, known as Jill Watson.

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How AI can transform lesson planning and assessment

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This predicament is only exacerbated by the recent breakthroughs in the fields of artificial intelligence (AI) and technology, which are accelerating scientific and mathematic discoveries, leading to rapid changes in every field’s accepted pedagogical and theoretical practices.

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There’s a New Wave of AI Research Coming to Transform Education

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That level of personalized learning is just one vision of researchers who are harnessing artificial intelligence to improve education. He says the funding and timeframe will make it possible to bring together education and artificial intelligence experts at the top of their field. He shared the example of the Mars expedition scenario.

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The Next Frontier of Learning Engineering: AI That Teaches Other AI

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Artificially intelligent tools tutoring humans works pretty well, too—but building those digital systems takes time and expertise. So researchers hoping to engineer better teaching and learning systems are working to unlock a new level of education efficiency by creating AI tools that make it easier for almost anyone to build an AI tutor.

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

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What was your biggest worry then, and how did the testing go? We've always worked on software that personalizes things, videos — I still make videos — and exercises, teacher tools, in a more traditional sense, and now we're moving toward this artificial intelligence world. It sounds like Khan Academy will continue to make videos?

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Teachers Are Turning to AI Solutions for Assistance

EdTech Magazine

That’s where artificial intelligence–powered teaching assistants might come in handy. AI Solutions Drive Higher STEM Test Scores. After one year of using Happy Numbers, an AI-assisted teaching assistant, nearly all the students improved their scores to a 35.

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A Siri for Higher Ed Aims to Boost Student Engagement

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A chatbot—a computer program designed to simulate an intelligent conversation—will respond to routine student inquiries and prompt students to complete assignments, mimicking some of the tasks of a teaching assistant. Assisting the Teaching Assistants. Chatbots help get rid of some of the noise.