M.S. AAI Capstone Chronicles 2024

EDUCATION ASSISTANCE THROUGH A.I.

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In truth, this alone showed how interested students were in using a new A.I. Chatbot. Every student from the USD-AAI program reported knowing about ChatGPT and roughly 67% admitted to having used it for help with assignments or materials. At Cal Poly Pomona only 41% of students had heard of ChatGPT, and only 15% of the total number of students admitted to using it for school purposes. Many of the students who had reported having never used A.I. treated the bot very differently than students who had reported using ChatGPT previously. In all cases, 63% of students reported the final version to be more helpful at understanding data science. Many of the students didn’t have a base understanding of data science. Quite a few of them started with questions such as- ’What is data science?’

Figure 4: A sample screenshot sent by a student using the mobile version of the chat interface

We ended up with many students who originally had no interest in data science diving into it. One student started asking the chatbot questions about the modules and diving into the material for about 40 minutes. Many students reacted positively to this simple implementation of an A.I. chatbot because of how easy it was to have their own personal tutor. The bot explained terms and formulas in plain English with more context if

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