It has been a few weeks since Stephen Hsu started getting the silent treatment. The Michigan State University professor and founder of artificial intelligence start-up SuperFocus had organised a meeting with the boss of one of the world’s top textbook publishers. His company had created a chatbot trained on one of the publisher’s best-sellers. It passed with flying colours, raising the possibility of a new generation of AI “study buddies” that are experts in narrow, class-by-class subjects. Sponsored“We said, ‘We’re kind of thinking of just releasing these on the ten most common high school or college subjects,” Hsu recalled.

Source: The Times April 23, 2023 09:54 UTC