"Pan Hui has already been replaced by artificial intelligence - and he did the replacing himself. In 2023, one of his students mentioned that they were a little bored seeing the same professor every lesson and might enjoy being taught by some different faces. This gave Hui an idea: why not use generative AI and an avatar to teach the students instead."
"Like many researchers and educators, Hui, a computer scientist at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) in China, views AI as a tool with potentially transformative power in education. So, over ten weeks in early 2024, postgraduate students were taught a course by various digital avatars. They could ask questions of the avatar and an underlying large language model (LLM) provided real-time responses, syncing facial animations to the answers."
Pan Hui replaced himself with AI avatars to teach a postgraduate course over ten weeks in early 2024. Students could ask avatars questions and a large language model provided real-time answers with synchronized facial animations. Surveys and interviews captured students' experiences and perceptions. Certain human-like avatars, such as one resembling Albert Einstein, were perceived as more trustworthy than cartoonish avatars. The experiment suggests how an AI-first higher-education provider might implement AI across admissions, personalized tutoring, lesson planning, and assessment. Existing universities face ethical and pedagogical challenges from rapid AI tool deployment into systems that were not equipped to handle them.
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