Six months ago, an assistant professor named Jill Watson appeared at the Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computer Science. The teacher communicated with the students exclusively on an Internet forum created by the university administration, and helped them, ironically, to carry out various developments in the field of artificial intelligence. The students did not even suspect that all this time they were communicating with a real robot.
Miss Watson (the authors of the project deliberately made her unmarried in order to win over the young men) almost daily assisted three hundred students with programming. Together with her, nine more assistant teachers did the same work, but all of them were human. Jill advised students, provided links to useful information, helped fix bugs, and reviewed projects. In addition, the artificial intelligence from time to time joked and used slang, but if young people tried to talk to the robot on abstract topics, he reminded that their communication should be limited to the teacher-student relationship.
Artificial teacher was on top
After six months, the administration of the Georgia Institute of Technology decided to check how successful the experiment was, and conducted an anonymous survey among students. Young Americans shared their impressions of the new teachers. It turned out that all future programmers were unanimously delighted with Miss Watson. The students wrote that she was clearly between twenty and thirty years old, and she was probably working on her doctoral dissertation. Some of the respondents admitted that they would like to meet Jill live, but they understood that teaching ethics does not allow this.
Miss Watson was born not only so that human interaction with artificial intelligence was studied as fully and better as possible. The fact is that diligent American students constantly ask teachers too many questions. Students at this College of Computer Science alone bombard their teachers with ten thousand questions every semester. Living people do not always have the opportunity to respond to such a wave of requests, so one of the professors came up with the idea to create a program that would help young people through the Internet to solve current problems. Jill Watson has an impressive database, and besides, she can quickly and efficiently search the necessary information on the World Wide Web.
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Thus, the high-tech future, about which science fiction writers of the last century wrote, is already gradually coming. Artificial intelligence, as shown by an experiment at the Georgia Institute, has completely succeeded in replacing a living remote teacher. Moreover, I managed to turn out to be the best teacher …