Not every cheap product has to be low quality. In particular, lots of products are used by poor and rich alike.
Everyone uses the same smartphones (the poor people use phones about as good as rich people used less than a decade ago), everyone drinks the same soft drinks, everyone takes the same cold medicine (the generic ones are pretty good), everyone uses the same social media, the same operating systems (even the richest Microsoft customers have to put up with their adware)
Yes, but is there any evidence that this sort of thing would be anything but low quality? I'm friends with an unusual number of college professors. Every single one looks at announcements like this and tears their hair out. "If only I had a chat bot that could act as a TA when students have questions about my lectures" is so far down the list of things they'd like to have to solve problems.
> "If only I had a chat bot that could act as a TA when students have questions about my lectures" is so far down the list of things they'd like to have to solve problems
I care about their problems a little bit, but I naturally care about the problems of the students a lot more. The point of colleges is to make it easier for the students to learn, not for the teachers to teach. The teachers are a means to an end.
If colleges announce that they will use AI as TAs and the students tear their hair out, then I will worry.
Everyone uses the same smartphones (the poor people use phones about as good as rich people used less than a decade ago), everyone drinks the same soft drinks, everyone takes the same cold medicine (the generic ones are pretty good), everyone uses the same social media, the same operating systems (even the richest Microsoft customers have to put up with their adware)