# Future of college will involve fewer professors

- Link: https://www.widthness.com/future-of-college-will-involve-fewer-professors/
- Published: 2021-10-21T09:00:29-05:00
- Author: Curated by Theresa Wysocki

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. […] Click here to view original web page at theconversation.com