The 21st century has experienced a tremendous pace of technological development, and the so-called Artificial Intelligence (AI) became one of the most disruptive agents in a broad range of spheres, education being one of them. AI has transformed the man-to-machine interaction in that machines can now imitate human intelligence by learning, reasoning, and by self-correcting. One of the most renowned instances of AI use is the software agent of virtual assistants that can execute tasks or services upon request or query by the user. Examples that are popular consist of Siri, the product of the Apple company, Google Assistant, Alexa of the Amazon company and Cortana of the Microsoft company, as well as more recently ChatGPT and other chatbot-like AI systems.
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