Future of college will involve fewer professors

Photo: Some colleges and universities may be using AI technology to help teach their students. skynesher / E+ via Getty Images. Article by Patricia A. Young. The Conversation – October 20, 2021.

At a large private university in Northern California, a business professor uses an avatar to lecture on a virtual stage.

Meanwhile, at a Southern university, graduate students in an artificial intelligence course discover that one of their nine teaching assistants is a virtual avatar, Jill Watson, also known as Watson, IBM’s question-answering computer system. Of the 10,000 messages posted to an online message board in one semester, Jill participated in student conversations and responded to all inquiries with 97% accuracy. […]

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