Veteran UQAM professor Antonello Callimaci, who says he has never shied away from technology, recently introduced a novel learning aid that some of his accounting students are raving about.

“I thought that it was a genius idea from the teacher,” student Nadine El-Nabouche told Global News.

The tool is a teaching assistant that Callimaci named Bobby that students say they find very reliable, because unlike most TAs, Bobby is available 24-7.

It’s no wonder. He exists in cyberspace.

“Basically, it’s powered by ChatGPT, but I fed it all my documents,” the professor said. “I have over 300 documents that comprises my class.”

The tool, a conversational agent, is able to answer students’ questions about course material, solve problems, generate practice quizzes and even make suggestions to

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