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Taking AI to School: A Conversation With MIT’s Anant Agarwal

In the latest episode of NVIDIA’s AI Podcast, Anant Agarwal, founder of edX and chief platform officer at 2U, shared his vision for the future of online education and how AI is revolutionizing the learning experience.

Agarwal, a strong advocate for massive open online courses, or MOOCs, discussed the importance of accessibility and quality in education. The MIT professor and renowned edtech pioneer also highlighted the implementation of AI-powered features in the edX platform, including the ChatGPT plug-in and edX Xpert, an AI-powered learning assistant.

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