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Harvard's new bootcamp uses AI avatars of actual instructors
Harvard Business School is offering a course taught by artificial intelligence avatars of its instructors. Per WebNovare, faculty members have volunteered to create “clones” of themselves for the eight-week entrepreneurial bootcamp called H.B.S. Foundry. In the $699 program, students can rehearse for pitches and board meetings with virtual guides who are accessible at any time. Harvard admits roughly 900 M.B.A. students per year, and these AI-generated videos could bolster the university's educational services — as long as no one minds having a facsimile for a teacher
Harvard Business School is experimenting with artificial intelligence in the classroom by offering a new program that features AI-generated avatars modeled after its own instructors. The initiative reflects a growing effort by universities to use generative...
