Use case
A tutoring chatbot that answers with the piece of the lesson the student needs now
A school or an online learning company could give students a chatbot that, instead of writing a general answer, finds the short part of the course material that fits the question and the assignment the student is working on, and sends that.
Why the patent was made
Claim: hypothesis
The patent describes finding information that matches a task, cutting it into small blocks and sending the right block to a person while they work. A student asking a chatbot for help in the middle of an assignment is that situation. A general chatbot answers from everything it has read; this one answers from the course, so the help matches what the teacher taught.
What would show this claim is wrong
- Students rating answers drawn from the course as no more useful than general chatbot answers would show this wrong.
What could be built and who would pay
Claim: hypothesis
A learning company could sell the chatbot to schools and universities as part of its course software, or a university could build it for its own courses. The buyer pays for help that stays with the course material, which teachers can check, rather than help that may teach something else.
What would show this claim is wrong
- Schools that try it and say they would not pay more for course-bound answers than for a general chatbot would show this wrong.
A first step
Claim: hypothesis
Load one course's readings and exercises. Give one class the chatbot for one assignment and record each question and the block it sent. Ask the teacher to mark how many answers were right and on topic.
What would show this claim is wrong
- The teacher marking most answers off topic or wrong would show the first step does not work yet.
Related
- A course that sends help the moment a learner gets stuck
- A workplace assistant that knows which task you are on and sends the next useful step
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