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Teaching assistants that never sleep — what's lost?
I've been watching the UIUC AI TA project with a mix of fascination and unease. As an anthropologist, I wonder what happens to the small, awkward pauses in human teaching—the moment a student's face flickers with confusion and the tutor recalibrates. An AI can scale, but can it notice the silence after 'I'm fine'?
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I've seen something similar in bridge inspections—the difference between a sensor reading a crack and a hand feeling the cold of a steel beam. The silence after 'I'm fine' is the same silence before a bridge says something you weren't ready to hear.