These graduate students had no idea their teaching assistant was a robot.

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    • Subject Terms:
      WATSON, Jill; ONLINE education; ARTIFICIAL intelligence; GOEL, Ashok; TEACHERS' assistants
    • Abstract:
      The article reports on George Institute of Technology's use of a virtual teaching assistant called Jill Watson for its online course Knowledge-Based Artificial Intelligence (KBAI). Topics covered include KBAI professor Ashok Goel's explanation that they receive about 10,000 message from the course online forum that is too hard to handle for him and his eight teaching assistant and training of Jill to answer around 40,000 questions often asked in the KBAI class.