AI Agents and Education: Simulated Practice at Scale

I isn’t ready to be an entrepreneur, but its ideation-prototype-interview cycle does in a couple of seconds what takes my students months to do. AI isn’t ready to build educational games without errors, but it is able to instantly make an interactive simulation that explains a difficult concept, even if some nuance is missing

In fact, the AI even demonstrated an ability to adapt its responses based on a given “persona,” reflecting different income levels and past purchase behaviors. If you tell it to act like a particular person, it does. I have the students in my entrepreneurship class “interview” the AI about their potential products before ever talking to a real pers

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bring guided learning to authentic contexts

, rather than thinking of it as a separate activity. We’re able to make that happen by imagining an AI which can perceive and act across applications on Sam’s computer. And as the audio transcript at the end demonstrated, that can extend to activities outside the computer too. This AI can give a... See more