Harvard Business School Sells Course With AI Faculty Avatars
Academics share posts about a $699 entrepreneurship bootcamp using AI instructor clones.
Professor Kosta Derpanis retweeted a post calling the idea embarrassing and linking to a photo. Professor Subbarao Kambhampati quoted the same post, labeling the concept silly and joking that AI clones of students would better address dwindling CS enrollment. Both reference generated headlines stating Harvard Business School created AI-generated avatars of instructors for its new entrepreneurship bootcamp. The $699 course is described in the shared summary as featuring these digital clones delivering lessons to participants.
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Harvard Business School Sells Course With AI Faculty Avatars
Academics share posts about a $699 entrepreneurship bootcamp using AI instructor clones.
Professor Kosta Derpanis retweeted a post calling the idea embarrassing and linking to a photo. Professor Subbarao Kambhampati quoted the same post, labeling the concept silly and joking that AI clones of students would better address dwindling CS enrollment. Both reference generated headlines stating Harvard Business School created AI-generated avatars of instructors for its new entrepreneurship bootcamp. The $699 course is described in the shared summary as featuring these digital clones delivering lessons to participants.
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So embarrassing
This is such a silly idea! Everyone knows it is not the faculty but the CS students who are dwindling in numbers.. hello! tldr; here, we are launching #AI clones of *students* to populate our CS courses.. 😎
So embarrassing
