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A new AI developed at Georgia Tech, the Jill Social Agent, was designed and launched in 2019 to explicitly connect students quickly and get them working together. The agent was developed in part as a response to high attrition rates that plague online learning in general. We like to think of it as 'speed friending.'The lead architect for the Jill Social Agent, Ida Camacho, OMSCS ’19, discusses with us on Tech Unbound what the social agent can do. It’s a fascinating inside look at Camacho’s approach to building social structures for online education and her own journey as an OMSCS student.Ida Camacho: http://dilab.gatech.edu/ida-camacho/Georgia Tech in the IBM AI XPrize Competition: http://emprize.gatech.edu/Transcript: Coming Soon>>>>>>>>>>>>>>CREDITS:Produced and hosted by Joshua Preston (Contact: jpreston@cc.gatech.edu) Audio engineering by Tim Trent and Stephen JenkinsMusic from https://filmmusic.io:"Overriding Concern" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)Licence: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)Music from https://filmmusic.io:"Rocket" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)Licence: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)