Characteristics of an AI Tutor to Prepare Students in Technical Subjects for the new Society 5.0

The expression Society 5.0 was coined by the Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to describe a Society which is not driven by capital but is driven by data. Artificial Intelligence (AI) will be widely used in Society 5.0. This paper describes a project where AI was used to create a tutoring system to assist students in computer programming. The student perceptions of the tutoring bot has been previously reported. In contrast, this paper describes certain characteristics which an AI tutoring bot should have in order to help students in technical subjects in Society 5.0. Detailed examples are provided verbatim from the conversation log files recorded during the project to show how these suggested characteristics should work.