Artificial intelligence in the classroom – Enrique Dans

Ashok Goel, a professor in artificial intelligence at Georgia Tech, has developed a chatbot based on IBM's Watson to answer the estimated 10,000 questions students ask him and his colleagues each semester. The point is that he didn't tell his students they were talking to a chatbot, but instead to a teaching assistant called Jill Watson. Nobody discovered the ruse until he told them at the end of term: surprise all round, with some students saying they were going to nominate Jill Watson for best teaching assistant. I have been teaching for 26 years, and enjoyed almost every minute. I have also spent many hours answering questions online.