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So you're missing a huge issue with something like this. Most other AI guided systems (which are basically all offshoots of large language models in some way)
by throwaway675309 4y ago
So you're missing a huge issue with something like this.
Most other AI guided systems (which are basically all offshoots of large language models in some way) are used as tools by people who are already familiar with the subject matter at the AI manipulates, which means that they can essentially fact check it.
Using the AI as a teacher implies that you are a student with virtually little to no understanding of the subject matter, which means you have no way to sanity check if the AI messes up and gives you incorrect information. You could end up with a deeply flawed understanding of the actual domain you wish to become an expert in.
- ComplexSystems 4y agoThis is just as much of an issue with real teachers.
- 8n4vidtmkvmk 4y agoreal teachers you can question and determine if they're talking out of their asses or actually know. AIs will lie
- anddt 4y agoThis, given the current state of things I belive that AI can be used, at most, as a more engaging/interactive piece of material to be used with the supervision of an actual teacher. The conversation that a student might have with GPT3 model will be coherent most of the time (and probably factually correct as well) but supervision from a teacher will always be needed to catch those cases where incorrect info is returned by the model. I still believe that a bunch of AI-enabled edtech tools will bloom out in the foreseeable future, just nowhere near anything usable by the student withouth supervision.