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ChatGPT could be an effective and affordable tutor

  • Written by Anne Trumbore, Chief Digital Learning Officer, Sands Institute for Lifelong Learning, University of Virginia
imageEducational software has a long history, but chatbots could help students excel like never before.Fabio Principe / EyeEm via Getty Images

Imagine a private tutor that never gets tired, has access to massive amounts of data and is free for everyone. In 1966, Stanford philosophy professor Patrick Suppes did just that when he made this prediction: One...

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