Meet David Joyner, the Professor who Cloned Himself with an AI Avatar Named ‘DAI-vid,’ as Part of an Experiment to ‘Democratize’ Online Learning
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As AI sweeps through higher education, a growing number of professors have been drawing a line in the sand—banning AI tools from the classroom and returning to classic “blue book” exams to ensure authentic, human-driven learning.
David Joyner of Georgia Tech told Fortune that he’s heard blue-book sales are up something like 50% nationwide. In fact, The Wall Street Journal reported in May that they they’ve risen even higher at some colleges, such as the University of California, Berkeley, whose bookstore reported an 80% surge over the last two years.
But Joyner, who among other things is Georgia Tech’s executive director of online education, where he’s long been a leader in the online education space with an ultra-cheap $7,000 computer science Masters degree, has other ideas. He and Anant Agarwal, an award-winning professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, have cloned Joyner in cyberspace and created an artificial intelligence (AI) professor.
Read more to find out about the rise of the "super teacher" and how you can tell tell if your seeing Joyner or his AI-powered avatar online.
