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JUNE 4, 2024

But not everyone thinks this is a good idea, since the tech is prone to “hallucinations,” where chatbots make up facts, and there’s the bigger issue of whether any machine can fill in for a human in something as deeply personal as one-on-one tutoring. A lot of folks probably saw the recent OpenAI demo of me and my son.

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JANUARY 17, 2025

Dissecting That Viral AI Demo With Sal Khan and His Son Should AI chatbots be used as tutors? Sal Khan, founder of Khan Academy, has become one of the most vocal proponents of the idea, and he and his son are featured in a recent demo of ChatGPTs latest version.

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MAY 2, 2024

More than 26 members of local and national media were on hand for the splashy announcement (a detail that Carvalho noted in his remarks), and the event also featured a human dressed in a costume of the shiny animated character of Ed, which has also long been a mascot of the school district, for attendees to take selfies with.

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AUGUST 1, 2024

Watkins says that a few months ago, when he saw a demo of a new feature in a popular learning management system that uses AI to help make materials with one click, he asked a company official whether they could add a button that would automatically watermark when AI is used to make that clear to students.

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JULY 15, 2024

A statement issued by the school district said “several educational technology companies are interested in acquiring” AllHere to continue its work, though nothing concrete has been announced.

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JUNE 6, 2024

And education appears to be an area identified by tech companies as a “ killer application ” of AI chatbots, a use case that helps drive adoption of the technology. Several demos last month by OpenAI , Google, and other companies honed in on educational uses of their latest chatbots.

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JULY 2, 2024

But these days, when it comes to AI, another concern has come into the spotlight: That the technology could lead to less human interaction in schools and colleges — and that school administrators could one day try to use it to replace teachers. And it's not just educators who are worried, this is becoming an education policy issue.

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