AI and Education: Will Chatbots Soon Tutor Your Children? New A.I. tools could enable a Silicon Valley dream: bots that customize learning for pupils. Prior attempts have not lived up to the hype.
In Classrooms, Teachers Put A.I. Tutoring Bots to the Test Newark public schools are cautiously trying out a new automated teaching aid from Khan Academy. The preliminary report card: “could use improvement.”
Khan Academy’s AI Tutor Bot Aims to Reshape Learning Proponents see the tools as a way to automatically customize academic support. They could also make children test subjects for A.I. experiments.
Not Just Math Quizzes: Khan Academy’s Tutoring Bot Offers Playful Features The new, A.I.-assisted Khanmigo allows students to chat with simulated historical figures or co-write stories with the software.