AI robot teaches uni students for 5 months... and no-one noticed Netimperative - latest digital marketing news

Jill Watson has been a teaching assistant (TA) at Georgia Institute of Technology for months, responding to student's emails and forum messages. But there's a twist: Jill is a robot. She is in fact a robot powered by IBM's Watson system, but students said her emails seemed casual, personal, and to-the-point. The class of over 300 students never met Ms. Watson, but she always responded to emails quickly and casually. "She was the person –well, the teaching assistant– who would remind us of due dates and post questions in the middle of the week to spark conversations," student Jennifer Gavin told the Journal.