{"id":25518,"date":"2016-05-09T18:47:21","date_gmt":"2016-05-10T01:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/imagine-discovering-that-your-teaching-assistant-really-is-a-robot"},"modified":"2017-04-24T20:58:25","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T03:58:25","slug":"imagine-discovering-that-your-teaching-assistant-really-is-a-robot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/imagine-discovering-that-your-teaching-assistant-really-is-a-robot","title":{"rendered":"Imagine Discovering That Your Teaching Assistant Really Is a Robot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/imagine-discovering-that-your-teaching-assistant-really-is-a-robot.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I wonder if this would qualify as a turing test.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Lalith Polepeddi, a (human) teaching assistant and researcher on the Jill Watson project at the Georgia Institute of Technology.<\/p>\n<p>Photo:<br \/> Lalith Polepeddi.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have been accused of being a computer,\u201d says TA Lalith Polepeddi, a computer-science master\u2019s student who was needled for responding to messages with lightning speed. \u201cI don\u2019t take it personally.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Student Barric Reed, an analytics consultant at <a href=\"http:\/\/quotes.wsj.com\/ACN\" class=\"\">Accenture<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/quotes.wsj.com\/ACN\" class=\"\"> ACN &minus;0.07 %<\/a> is embarrassed he didn\u2019t pick up on the trick\u2014for good reason.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/if-your-teacher-sounds-like-a-robot-you-might-be-on-to-something-1462546621?mod=e2tw\">http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/if-your-teacher-sounds-like-a-ro...1?mod=e2tw<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wonder if this would qualify as a turing test. Lalith Polepeddi, a (human) teaching assistant and researcher on the Jill Watson project at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Photo: Lalith Polepeddi. \u201cI have been accused of being a computer,\u201d says TA Lalith Polepeddi, a computer-science master\u2019s student who was needled for responding to messages [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,1523,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-computing","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25518"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50546,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25518\/revisions\/50546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}