By Mirage News
Publication Date: 2025-11-12 14:52:00
A new study from Dartmouth finds that artificial intelligence has the potential to provide educational support that meets the individual needs of large numbers of students. The researchers are the first to report that students may have more trust in AI platforms that are programmed to get answers only from curated expert sources rather than huge data sets of general information.
Professor Thomas Thesen and co-author Soo Hwan Park tracked 190 medical students at Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine using an AI teaching assistant called NeuroBot TA, which provides 24/7 personalized support for students in Thesen’s neuroscience and neurology majors.
Thesen and Park created the platform using Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), a technique that anchors the responses of large language models to specific sources of information. This results in more accurate and relevant answers by reducing “hallucinations,” AI-generated information that often sounds convincing but…
