Montreal university professor creates AI tool as learning aid
Global News
The main advantage to having the tool is that students can get answers to questions when they can't reach him outside of school hours.
Veteran UQAM professor Antonello Callimaci, who says he has never shied away from technology, recently introduced a novel learning aid that some of his accounting students are raving about.
“I thought that it was a genius idea from the teacher,” student Nadine El-Nabouche told Global News.
The tool is a teaching assistant that Callimaci named Bobby that students say they find very reliable, because unlike most TAs, Bobby is available 24-7.
It’s no wonder. He exists in cyberspace.
“Basically, it’s powered by ChatGPT, but I fed it all my documents,” the professor said. “I have over 300 documents that comprises my class.”
The tool, a conversational agent, is able to answer students’ questions about course material, solve problems, generate practice quizzes and even make suggestions to test the students’ knowledge – all based on Callimaci’s own course material.
“So, basically, Bobby is an expert in my class as much as I am,” Callimaci smiled.
The tool’s main advantage is that students can get answers to questions when they can’t reach him outside of school hours.
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