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Old Dominion University assistant professor Rhett Epler can’t possibly conduct vital one-on-one mock sales interactions with every student — but artificial intelligence can.

“A student can sit down and role-play with a robot, get feedback and get graded,” Epler said. “It’s really a pretty cool and exciting thing.”

The ability to outsource via the AI platform has been a tremendous asset to his students and his teaching, said Epler, a professional sales marketing teacher in the Strome College of Business for more than four years.

“There’s always been a role-play bottleneck in sales,” Epler said.

More than a year ago, he said he learned of and incorporated Copient.ai into his classroom. The platform was initially used to train its parent com

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