AI Tutors in Education
The cluster discusses the potential of AI and LLMs to serve as personal tutors or replace human teachers, debating benefits like infinite patience and scalability against limitations in addressing student needs and true understanding.
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Related:Unbound Academy hasn’t replaced teachers with AIhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45443004
Related:Unbound Academy hasn’t replaced teachers with AIhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45443004
Related:Unbound Academy hasn’t replaced teachers with AIhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45443004
What people are missing is the teacher will soon be an LLM with a camera looking at the student. Why would you watch a video of a human during an online class? Why would you ask the student to produce something in a black room? We will not evaluate students based on their homework, an AI assistant will evaluate the student based on the conversations they had together. You can automate teaching, but not learning. There is this gap in time where teaching hasn't catch-up, it's going to be
As a student (in the academic sense when younger, and in a philosophical sense throughout life), I've been taught by teachers, and recently I've explored subjects by asking questions to large language modelsThe latter has been a much more pleasant experience. Infinite patience, infinite availability, seemingly infinite personalization. I'm also able to ask analogous questions to concepts from other fields.I would be hesitant to see AI adopted during the early years of educat
Feels like AI could fix this, learning with a llm companion that never is exhausted and always encourages you to follow your intuition and curiosity is already better than 99% of teachers on a public school (sadly) not blaming the teachers, but the system, one teacher 30 students will never work well
Sans neuralink or equivalent tech, I’m skeptical that an AI will soon develop the input mechanisms to make those judgements on par with an experienced human tutor. Students often (inadvertently) mischaracterize what is blocking their progress - and blockers are often nonacademic. What I would like to see, and work on, is augmenting the human instruction rather than replace it.
LLMs democratize personal tutoring. AI can massively improve education, if done right.
Wouldn't it be unfair towards the students who want to learn without LLMs?
ChatGpt doesn't augment education, if replaces it. A version that is 99% correct on a subject will be enough to replace the teacher. It is endlessly patient, unlike any teacher. Coupled with high quality video courses, i can see children above a certain age using it to learn and explore science,math, languages and literature