#71 – What have Chatbots got to do with Higher Education?
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- Interview with:
- Geir Sand Nilsen (@geirsand) Co-founder at Edtech Foundry – the makers of the Differ chatbot
- We talk about chatbots, using stutters to your own advantage, and the bittersweet notion of teaching artificial intelligence how to do your job.
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- AI: ‘You’re not needed anymore. The role of the human is what
- we are talking about here’.
- ‘I’m a stuttering guy as you probably can hear.’
- ‘We scale people.’
- ‘How long before chatbots are mainstream in schools and
- Unis? 4-5 years.’
- ‘I want everyone in the world to have a bot’
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