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AI Tutors: Why we need them and How they will work
AI Tutors: Why we need them and How they will work
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AI Tutors
Why we need them
and how they will work.
Anshul Bhagi
MIT ‘11 / ‘12
HBS ‘17
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4 takeaways for today
1) 1-on-1 tutors are great but don’t scale
2) Scalable + effecHve AI tutors are within reach
3) Basic approach to making machines ‘understand’:
vector representaHon of words / knowledge
4) Go-to-market strategy for AI tutors: narrow
domains, retrieval based, human-first
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Why AI for Ed?
1 on 1 tutor for everybody, any7me, anywhere
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Source: Bloom (1984) research on impact of 1-on-1 tutoring
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Why now: AI tutors are within reach
Jill Watson
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What AI Tutors can do
Answer ques7ons based on past Q&A
“Read”, “learn”, and share knowledge
Generate ques7ons for text they see
Have long conversa7ons, be
personal assistants to students
Informa7on Retrieval
Neural Ques7on Genera7on
Machine Comprehension
Intent-classifica7on,
Reinforcement Learning,
Long-term memory, etc.
Retrieval vs. GeneraHve
Closed-Domain vs. Open-Domain
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old way:
based on text similarity
new way:
based on meanings
Informa7on Retrieval
finding answers to quesHons
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“Seman7c Space” and word vectors
• Turn words into mulH-dimensional vectors
• SemanHcally similar
words closer together
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Emoji vectors
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Source: Dango messaging app. Learned representaHons of Emojis in 2D space.
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From word vectors to sentence vectors
1) Use word counts (TF-IDF)
2) Take average of word vectors (pre-trained)
3) Create sentence vectors using neural
predicHon approach (Doc2Vec)
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Ques7ons as vectors
finding closest past quesHon -> answer
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SochoBot
Live Demo
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hips://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azzLNPU17Go