Building AI agents can be costly. Consider a question answering agent such as Jill Watson that automatically answers students' questions on the discussion forums of online classes based on their syllabi and other course materials. Training a Jill on the syllabus of a new online class can take a hundred hours or more. Machine teaching - interactive teaching of an AI agent using synthetic data sets - can reduce the training time because it combines the advantages of knowledge-based AI, machine learning using large data sets, and interactive human-in-loop training. We describe Agent Smith, an interactive machine teaching agent that reduces the time taken to train a Jill for a new online class by an order of magnitude.
@article{arxiv.2112.13677,
title = {Agent Smith: Teaching Question Answering to Jill Watson},
author = {Ashok Goel and Harshvardhan Sikka and Eric Gregori},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2112.13677},
year = {2022}
}