$3 million chatbot lasts three months in LA schools

Los Angeles public schools have turned off an AI chatbot custom-designed to help parents and children navigate the school system after only three months because AllHere, which created it, mostly shut down. The information the chatbot dispensed is still available on the school’s platform, and the district intends to bring it back once officials figure out how to proceed. The school’s contract was worth $6 million over five years; about half it had been paid.
Link:LAUSD shelves its hyped AI chatbot to help students after collapse of firm that made it
Publication: LA Times
Writer: Howard Blume