IIT Guwahati develops 'AI tutor' for students

Bengaluru: A team of post-graduate students and teachers from the Electrical and Electronics Engineering (EEE) department of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati, said they are developing an Artificial Intelligence (AI)-enabled chatbot to teach and support first year EEE students. Dubbed'ALBELA', the AI chatbot is capable of addressing the queries of the nearly 850 EEE students at the institute, the institution said in a statement on Tuesday. Professor Praveen Kumar of the EEE department said a dedicated team of seven research scholars has been developing the chatbot for the last seven months. "Earlier we did the trial runs of the chabot, and started using it from this academic session onwards," he said, adding that IBM has extended support to this project. The institute says the AI chatbot is trained to answer queries on topics relevant to the students.