Harvard will begin utilizing AI to teach students how to code.

Will you study if your professor is an AI? The Computer Science 50 (CS50) program offers one-on-one lessons to students enrolled in the Computer Science course at Harvard, one of the most famous universities in the world. It will be taught by artificial intelligence (AI), but there is a catch.

According to CS50 professor David Malan, as reported by the university's student-run publication Harvard Crimson, the objective was to give each student a "1:1 teacher:student ratio for every student" in the curriculum. It appears that this was done in a manner that supports self-paced learning, with 24/7 support, using software.

The instructional team is experimenting with GPT 3.5 and GPT 4 models while concentrating on the development of the practice. The "Classroom in the Cloud," also known as CS50, was first introduced in 2012 as a free-to-enroll service through etX. Since then, it has emerged as a key educational program on the site.

Although the Harvard professor acknowledges that "early incarnations" of AI programs are prone to "occasionally underperform or even err," he reiterated that the use of AI will help free up some time for educators to communicate with their pupils on a one-on-one basis. Malan compares the change to the use of AI to an "apprenticeship" where he and his colleagues could emphasize spending "more meaningful, interpersonal time" with the students. He did, however, emphasize the idea that the program was "experimental."