A team of researchers at the University of California San Diego developed an AI tutor designed to give students an alternative to off-the-shelf AI tools, so that students not only get help but actually learn course-relevant information at the same time. The hope is that students will find this experience more fulfilling than simply relying on large language models like Google Copilot or ChatGPT.
“The reality is that students will use AI for their assignments,” said Mohan Paturi, one of the lead researchers on the project, a professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering and an affiliate of the UC San Diego Qualcomm Institute. “But those tools do not necessarily facilitate learning.”
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