2025 Winter CaliforniaUniversityLos Angeles (UCLA) will offer a course in comparative literature class.Its textbooks, assignments and teaching aid materials are provided by theAIgenerate.
According to 1AI, the course is an introduction to medieval to 17th-century literature with materials generated by Kudu's artificial intelligence platform, which was founded by UCLA physics and astronomy professor Alexander Kusenko. This will reportedly be the first course in UCLA's School of Humanities to use a textbook developed by Kudu.
To create the materials, professor Zrinka Stahuljak provided Kudu with notes, PowerPoint presentations, and YouTube videos from her previous courses. The course creation process can take three to four months, but UCLA says professors should limit their time commitment to 20 hours (for which Kudu will compensate them).
Stahuljak says this approach frees up more time for her and her teaching assistants to work closely with students and ensure more consistent delivery of course materials. Students can also ask Kudu questions about the material, and Kudu's answers come only from the materials provided by the professor, not from the Internet as a whole.