Harvard announces it will teach students using an artificial intelligence instructor next semester

Ivy League students at one of America's most expensive colleges will be taught by AI next year. The teachers of Harvard University's popular intro-level coding course are'experimenting' with a ChatGPT-powered teaching assistant. Professor David Malan, who runs the course, justified plans for the introduction of the'CS50 bot' by noting that the course has often deployed new software in its syllabus. A ChatGPT AI teacher, he said, was simply an'evolution of that tradition', he said in a statement. 'Our own hope is that, through AI, we can eventually approximate a 1:1 teacher:student ratio for every student in CS50... providing them with software-based tools that, 24/7, can support their learning at a pace and in a style that works best for them individually.'