"Joyner's latest project on the online education platform edX, an experimental pilot titled "Foundations of Generative AI," is something new, Fortune can exclusively reveal. It uses a virtual avatar named DAI-vid, modeled after Joyner's own appearance and voice. The avatar delivers lectures while wearing a signature binary-coded bracelet. Joyner explained that if you see him onscreen wearing a bracelet, that's actually DAI-vid talking."
"Agarwal became CEO of edX in 2012 for exactly this outcome, when Harvard and MIT co-founded the nonprofit based off Agarwal's MITx initiative. Ever since, he has been using the platform to teach far-reaching "open courses" (also known as MOOCs, or massive online open courses) for years, with the first edX course being an MIT lecture on circuits and electronics that drew 155,000 students from 162 countries within one year, according to edX, and has now surpassed 1 million."
AI adoption in higher education is provoking faculty to ban AI tools and revert to in-person blue-book exams, driving substantial increases in blue-book sales at some campus bookstores. David Joyner of Georgia Tech and Anant Agarwal of MIT created a virtual AI professor, DAI-vid, on edX that uses an avatar modeled on Joyner's appearance and voice to deliver lectures while wearing a binary-coded bracelet. Agarwal led edX beginning in 2012 and used the platform to scale open courses and MOOCs; the first edX course on circuits and electronics drew 155,000 students and later surpassed one million learners.
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