How AI will rescue us from online learning's 'bad television'

Post-pandemic, some of universities' teaching practices may never return. In parallel, artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming so capable it could start changing how we learn. Covid, perversely, may herald a renaissance for online learning. Most digital learning today is terrible, resembling "bad television", as frequent collaborator professor Alex Pentland of MIT puts it. According to a 2019 study, only 3 per cent of students who start an online class finish it.