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When do you most often need help with studying?
It is 2 AM the night before an exam. A student is stuck on a calculus concept and their professor's office hours are not until Thursday. Previously, this student would give up, memorize a formula without understanding it, and hope for the best. Today, an AI tutor can walk them through the concept step by step, adjusting its explanations until the student truly understands. Universities deploying AI tutoring bots report that peak usage occurs between 10 PM and 2 AM, exactly when human help is unavailable. Georgia Tech famously deployed an AI teaching assistant named Jill Watson that answered student questions so effectively that students did not realize it was not human for an entire semester. The potential is enormous: 24/7 personalized tutoring for every student, regardless of their time zone or schedule.
Students have questions at all hours. An AI tutor never sleeps.