Imagine you had an unlimited budget for individual tutors offering hyper-personalized courses that maximized learners' productivity and skills development. This summer I previewed this idea—with a ridiculous and solipsistic test.
I asked an AI tutor agent to play the role of me, an Oxford lecturer on media and AI, and teach me a personal master's course, based entirely on my own work.
I set up the agent via an off-the-shelf ChatGPT tool hosted on the Azure-based Nebula One platform, with a prompt to research and impersonate me, then build personalized material based on what I already think. I didn't tell the large language model (LLM) what to read or do anything else to enhance its capabilities, such as giving it access to learning materials that aren't publicly available online.
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