University students fooled by robot TA

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  • Ashok Goel in the Classroom Ashok Goel in the Classroom
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Students in Professor Ashok Goel's OMS CS class recently learned that one of their TAs was a robot. Professor Goel recounts his semester-long experiment and dispels suggestions that his artificial teaching assistant is a step toward replacing actual teachers.

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Groups

College of Computing, School of Interactive Computing

Categories
Education, Student and Faculty, Robotics
Keywords
artificial intelligence, ashok goel, OMS CS, Online Master of Science in Computer Science
Status
  • Created By: Devin Young
  • Workflow Status: Draft
  • Created On: May 18, 2016 - 6:17am
  • Last Updated: Oct 7, 2016 - 10:28pm