AI2 CEO calls for 'full disclosure' in artificial intelligence after students learn their TA is really a bot - GeekWire

A class of students at the Georgia Institute of Technology recently learned that Jill Watson, the teacher's assistant they'd been interacting with all semester, was actually a robot. Jill, powered by IBM's Watson analytics system, helped graduate students in an online artificial intelligence course, according to The Wall Street Journal. "It seemed very much like a normal conversation with a human being," one student said. "I was flabbergasted," confessed another. Professor Ashok Goel, who led the online course, told The Wall Street Journal that Jill was designed to help burdened TAs field an onslaught of questions from the 300-person class.