Harvard Business School Offers Bootcamp With AI Faculty Avatars
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Daniel Aldana Cohen posted a link calling the development embarrassing. Colin Drumm quoted a related announcement and observed that such tools threaten academic jobs, leaving faculty with little leverage beyond mutual reassurance of their importance. Pete Skomoroch amplified the same thread. The visible posts center on a program that replaces live faculty sessions with digital clones of instructors for startup training.
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So embarrassing
this is coming for a lot of academic jobs, and the only thing that the academics will be able to do about it is reassure each other about how legitimate and important they are. they have no other leverage and no other constituency.
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this is coming for a lot of academic jobs, and the only thing that the academics will be able to do about it is reassure each other about how legitimate and important they are. they have no other leverage and no other constituency.
🚨WILD: Harvard Business School launches AI “clones” of its professors to hear startup pitches, simulate sales calls, & run mock board meetings. HBS created AI versions of its faculty for a new $699 entrepreneurship bootcamp, allowing founders to practice investor pitches,…
