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Ivy League university unveils plan to teach students with AI chatbot this fall: 'Evolution' of 'tradition'

FOX News

PactumAI co-founder and CEO Martin Rand explains how workers can use artificial intelligence to enhance their careers and positions. Students at one of the America's most elite universities will be in for a surprise this fall when they discover their flagship coding class is taught with help from an A.I. chatbot in a bend on what Professor David Malan, the course's overseer, defines as an "evolution" of "tradition." Harvard University unleashed plans to incorporate A.I. chatbots to teach the course, venturing deeper into the uncharted territory of artificial intelligence - a territory that has exponentially grown and altered the course of technology in the past several months. Though the idea sounds novel and exciting, Martin Rand, PactumAI co-founder and CEO, warned to be wary of the "dangers." I INTERVIEWED CHATGPT AS IF IT WAS A HUMAN; HERE'S WHAT IT HAD TO SAY THAT GAVE ME CHILLS People walk through the gate on Harvard Yard at the Harvard University campus on June 29, 2023 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.


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

Daily Mail - Science & tech

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.'


How Harvard's Star Computer-Science Professor Built a Distance-Learning Empire

The New Yorker

Gabriel Guimaraes grew up in Vitória, Brazil, in a yellow house surrounded by star-fruit trees and chicken coops. His father, who wrote software for a local bank, instilled in him an interest in computers. On weekends, when Guimaraes got bored with Nintendo video games, he programmed his own. In grade school, he built a humanoid robot and wrote enough assembly code to make it zip around his home. In Vitória, an island city, his most ambitious peers dreamed of attending university in São Paulo, an hour away by plane.