Artificial intelligence goes to school

Many of us know Jack and Jill went up a hill to fetch a pail of water. But did you know that Jill then went to the Georgia Institute of Technology? That's right -- Jill went on to college and is now a teaching assistant in a course on artificial intelligence (AI) in Georgia Tech's computer science program. Jill assists Ashok Goel, professor in the School of Interactive Computing. Jill, implemented on IBM's Watson platform, was first used during the spring 2016 semester to successfully answer frequently asked student questions without the help of humans.