There’s something different about Jill Watson, a teaching assistant for Georgia Tech professor Ashok Goel’s Masters in Computer Science class.

She answers questions for students, and seems to them, based on those online answers, like any other teaching assistant they don’t see in person.

Seeing Jill in “person” isn’t actually possible, though, because of what makes her different.

"Jill Watson" is really a computer program of artificial intelligence. To find out more about how "she's" doing and how students react to "her," read our premum story on myajc.com.

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Workers, clean up damaged house near Paulding County High School after a storm passed through, Sunday, March 16, 2025, in Dallas. National Weather Service teams will be conducting a damage survey in the Paulding County/Dallas area, which sustained “pretty significant” damage from the storms, NWS Senior Meteorologist Dylan Lusk told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution on Sunday morning. (Hyosub Shin / AJC)

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