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I was a student in this class, and had at least one question on the forum answered (correctly) by Jill. I can see this technology being hugely useful for teache

I was a student in this class, and had at least one question on the forum answered (correctly) by Jill. I can see this technology being hugely useful for teachers who conduct large lecture classes in any subject on a regular basis. That said, I'd be even more excited if Jill had the ability to synthesize new answers to questions through some type of case-based reasoning. This would require Jill receiving feedback on "her" answers, which might mean the students would have to know "who" "she" was in advance. (Sorry, got lost in the quotes.) Right now, Jill is essentially an automated FAQ-retrieval bot.

ilyaeck 10y ago
Do you know what kind of classification method it is using at the moment?
- forrestbrazeal 10y ago
  Not exactly. I know it is built on an academic flavor of Watson, though.
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SilasX 10y ago
If you had some reddit/HN-style forum where the questions get replies and votes, that would be valuable information for what counts as a "good answer".
- SEJeff 10y ago
  Yeah I can see that going over well in Physics McPhysicsFace 101
- iBzOtaku 10y ago
  If I recall correctly, https://piazza.com/ https://piazza.com/ does something similar to this and I believe they also have voting on a "best" answer as well.