Faced with a shortage of counselors, California schools are offering AI chatbots to more students. They’re offering advice on college and career options. Illustration by Adriana Heldiz, CalMatters; iStock In summary The more students turn to chatbots, the fewer chances they have to develop real-life relationships that can lead to jobs and later success. During the pandemic, longtime Bay Area college and career counselor Jon Siapno started developing a chatbot that could answer high schoolers’ questions about their future education options. He was using IBM’s question-answering precursor to ChatGPT, Watson, but when generative artificial intelligence became accessible, he knew it was a game-changer. “I thought it would take us maybe two years to build out the questions and answers,” Siapno said. “Back then you had to prewrite everything.” An […]
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