4 Ways Artificial Intelligence is Revolutionizing Education

Nothing seemed suspect when Jill Watson, a teaching assistant at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), emailed students about assignments and answered questions during Professor Ashok Goel's online knowledge-based artificial intelligence course. In fact, it wasn't until the end of the semester that the students realized they hadn't been emailing a human at all -- they'd been corresponding with a chatbot. Goel had built an artificially intelligent teaching assistant that could answer routine questions so that he and the human teaching assistants could focus on responding to more complex issues, Business Insider reports. And he isn't the only person using artificial intelligence to improve education. The teams at companies including Thinkster Math, Brainly, Content Technologies Inc., and Gradescope are creating artificial intelligence tools to aid students and educators.