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Re:A professor built a chatbot to be his teaching assistant by lucb1e on Friday May 13, 2016 @02:06PM (#11692086)
I can't help feeling a big FAQ page with a search function would be a lot more useful. Especially if the entries contain aliases for common search terms, like "length" on the entry of "word count", it should cover everything.

Now this is a forum where others can chip in as well, but the FAQ page could prevent you from having to post in the first place. And if you don't have to post publicly to get an answer from the chat bot (because it's a FAQ page and not a bot) you can do 20 searches before deciding it's not in there.

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Re:A professor built a chatbot to be his teaching assistant by BrandonSmithJ on Friday May 13, 2016 @02:24PM (#11692213)
Speaking from experience from being in this class, the unfortunate truth is many people don't bother to read the documents for assignments (thoroughly, at any rate). This one wasn't as bad as another one I took, but many people will ask questions which are easily answered by looking at the materials they're given. That's essentially the area in which this AI excels.
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