LABot: Fulfilling the Big Promise of AI in Education
Ivo Georgiev |
TEDxMSUDenver
• September 2019
We are training an artificial general intelligence as a Learning Assistant Bot for the human learner. The LABot is an academic content-agnostic conversational intelligence that adapts to the learner to present a personalized path through the curriculum. The LABot is a pedagogic agent which assembles a progression of learning activities toward educational outcomes and maintains engagement within the zone of proximal development, neutral affect, and flow channel of the learner. At the heart of the LA Bot is the Learning Channel, a computational neuro-cognitive model of conceptual change in human learning. It incorporates the latest developments in the science of learning, cognitive neuroscience, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. The Bot is trained end-to-end, with either a bot or human on either side. The Bot works on top of the STEMGraph, a conceptual graph of normative knowledge, and strives to bring the learner’s own latent naive graph into correspondence with it.