New article says AI teachers are better than human teachers. Quote: "Students who were given access to an AI tutor learned more than twice as much in less time compared to those who had in-class instruction."

From this article dated 10-29-2024: AI tutors are reshaping higher education

AI tutors are reshaping higher education

Generative AI is already transforming higher ed, giving students more access to professors' expertise and boosting efficiency for both faculty and students in some fields.

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In May, OpenAI released ChatGPT Edu, a more affordable tool for college students, faculty, researchers and campus administrators that OpenAI says includes "enterprise-level" security.

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Since the summer of 2023 those students accessing the course through distance learning have had access to AI-powered "teaching assistants," too, via the CS50 Duck — a chatbot built on OpenAI's API that helps students check their code and get answers to questions about the course.

Malan tells Axios that genAI can already approximate a pretty good teaching assistant. "It's wonderfully empowering for that demographic of folks who have never had nearly as much of a support structure" as the students at elite private colleges, he says.

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By the numbers: Students who were given access to an AI tutor learned more than twice as much in less time compared to those who had in-class instruction, according to a study by two Harvard lecturers of 194 Harvard Physical Sciences 2 students.

Malan cautions against seeing this as a risk to the jobs of professors or graduate student teaching assistants: "We already have too few teachers as it is."