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Khan Academy integrates GPT-4 as every student’s customized tutor
- dekhn 4y agoThe cynic in me wonders if "AI" has realized that the most efficient way to take over the world is to teach the next generation to be dependent on it for learning.
- blurbleblurble 4y agoReplace "AI" with "powerful institutions" and you hit it on the head. Maybe "AI" should stand for "augmented institutions". Maybe you'd be interested in Paulo Freire's book "The Pedagogy of the Oppressed"?
- dwmbt 4y agothis was my '1984'. i was 15, had it in my head that i was destined to become a revolutionary. i gave it to a friend and they came away feeling like they needed to become a teacher; i came away wanting to be a novelist, or a father. in any case, it definitely changed my world view. not sure how i'd feel about it nearly a decade later, but i'll take this a sign to re-read. cheers!
- falcrist 4y agoDune touched on this topic in 1965. Frank Herbert has the Reverend mother tell Paul: > “Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.” To me, this quite really captures the most likely immediate negative of a huge AGI breakthrough. Not that it'll rise up like the robots in The Matrix movies... but rather simply having it owned and controlled by an American mega-corporation or a state actor... quietly influencing everything and everyone behind the scenes. There is no way I can imagine to define true neutrality. You need to make value judgements. Everyone has their own set of values they judge the world with. There is no way I'm aware of to completely avoid bias. Ultimately, it has to be up to someone to define what bias and neutrality both mean. There is no algorithm for "truth". As soon as you stray outside of extremely well-defined systems like math and physics, ambiguity enters the equation and value judgements need to be made. Who will make those value judgements?
- pixl97 4y ago> most likely immediate negative of a huge AGI breakthrough. I mean if the machines are generally intelligent in the human sense and unaligned with human interests I'm assuming that the mega-corporation would be its own slave to the machine too. The machine would give the mega-corporation more power, simply because that's the number one way to increase the power of the machine. If super intelligence is possible, it seems that a greedy power hungry corporation would gladly create it to gain more power, and then lose control of the situation.
- aperrien 4y agoOr the educational history of the daughters of the confederacy: https://www.facingsouth.org/2019/04/twisted-sources-how-confederate-propaganda-ended-souths-schoolbooks https://www.facingsouth.org/2019/04/twisted-sources-how-conf...
- nebula8804 4y agoThere will probably be a janky but usable open source version of the model and tool eventually. The "Linux" option. That way the 1% that cares about this stuff can do the self host route and retain control by them controlling what the model tells them(hopefully).
- arcanemachiner 4y agoI unsarcastically look forward to a worse version that respects user privacy.
- minxomat 4y agoA plot point in an episode of Person of Interest, where AGI "Samaritan" funds a charity (free tablets for students, Samaritan access pre-installed) to take over education and recruit more mercenaries.
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- BigCryo 4y agoReminds me of that science fiction story by Ray Bradbury called the veldt... Computers raise the kids
- lamplovin 4y agoYou get the full experience reading that story if you have deadmau5's the veldt playing in the background as well
- p_j_w 4y agoIt's very upsetting that deadmau5 hasn't released an instrumental version of this song.
- tectonic 4y agoA Young Lady's Illustrated Primer
- yamtaddle 4y ago... which had a real human on the other side, and the ones that didn't yielded rather different results.
- yarone 4y agoAnother one that came to my mind: "The Fun They Had" by Asimov "Margie was thinking about how the kids must have loved it in the old days. She was thinking about the fun they had." http://web1.nbed.nb.ca/sites/ASD-S/1820/J%20Johnston/Isaac%20Asimov%20-%20The%20fun%20they%20had.pdf http://web1.nbed.nb.ca/sites/ASD-S/1820/J%20Johnston/Isaac%2...
- the_af 4y agoIt's funny that you mention "The Fun They Had", because if you visit its Wikipedia page now, the summary looks written by a bot. It looks like "basic" English, only with a weird quality to it -- either written by someone whose grasp of language is very poor, or by ChatGPT. I'd say worse than ChatGPT actually: the sentences are short and almost mechanical. Go look at it. The edit changing a way more human-sounding plot summary to this version was made on September 2022, in case anyone is wondering. PS: if GPT derives much of its data from Wikipedia, and people start using GPT to write Wikipedia articles, I wonder what kind of strange feedback loop we're getting into.
- shawnjan8 4y agoJust to be clear: it's not for every student (at least not yet!). We are in a research phase sharing it with a limited subset of users. More details about our approach to the responsible development of AI: https://blog.khanacademy.org/aiguidelines/ https://blog.khanacademy.org/aiguidelines/
- jrussino 4y agoDo you know if/how someone can get involved with this at the research phase? I have a daughter who will be entering 1st grade next year and I'd be interested in having her try this out if there was a way of signing up.
- shawnjan8 4y agoThe sign-up page to join our waitlist is here: https://www.khanacademy.org/khan-labs https://www.khanacademy.org/khan-labs But we aren't planning to allow folks to enroll / allow Khanmigo for folks with children under 13 at this time as part of our research phase.
- arcanemachiner 4y agoOr anyone outside the US :(
- netfortius 4y agoI feel young again!! Logged into my account and an attempt to join the waitlist returns this: "If you want to test Khanmigo, your parent or guardian needs to sign up. At this time, only people ages 18 and older are eligible to sign up. Please ask your parent or guardian sign up and add you to their account."
- germinalphrase 4y agoI was a high school English teacher for about ten years before transitioning into tech last July. Has KA explored assistive assessment tools for in-person instruction?
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- Sol- 4y agoGiven that learning will probably soon not be required anymore to live a successful life (AIs will do everything better than you), I guess such learning-as-a-hobby apps will be the remaining niche to entertain the humans on basic income. I wonder how many people will actually make use of it, though, and how many are instead content with being wireheaded by the various AI-based content apps that will appear, full with virtual partners (see Replika etc.).
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- CuriouslyC 4y agoLearning is absolutely going to be required, we are just going to need to spend more time learning patterns and motifs rather than lots of facts. Learning facts and trivia was already devalued by everyone having a hyper-encyclopedia in their pockets, this will just extend that. Knowledge of patterns and motifs in domains of information will let you work together with the machines in a way that an untrained person will not be able to match.
- Sol- 4y agoI admire your optimism if you think that a human in the loop will add any value. Other than for humoring/entertaining the human, of course, which is what I meant with learning-as-a-hobby. Also, I'm not educator or very knowledgeable about the theory of learning, but I can imagine that "learning facts and trivia" is to some extent a necessity for exercising our brains when we are young. Of course, learning patterns and theories is the end goal, but some rote learning may be necessary on the way.
- CuriouslyC 4y agoHumans are very efficient computers for many types of tasks. Humans also have a large body of multi-modal data with detailed annotations inferred by observation of other people's responses passed through our mirror circuitry that is unavailable to the AI, so they can sometimes provide relevant guidance even if they aren't better at the whole task. Finally, human neural networks are chaotic, so they can potentially find better global maximums in some cases than a model, which might end up trapped in a local minimum due to its inability to entertain sufficiently unlikely hypotheticals.
- andy_andy_andy 4y agolet's just hope a student doesn't ask an arithmetic problem!
- kenjackson 4y agoI think GPT-4 has made substantial improvements here.
- jeron 4y ago> SAT Math: 700 / 800 It will get there, at least it should solve the easier problems correctly
- stu2b50 4y ago2 of the 3 demo videos is literally a student asking it arithmetic problems
- pixl97 4y agoThere's other models that are doing this at a much better rate than GPT, so I don't think this is an unsolvable problem.
- thrill 4y agoFinally, we have hit on how to teach AIs patience.
- jamestimmins 4y agoHighly recommend the Neal Stephenson book The Diamond Age: Or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer, for an interesting exploration of a custom AI tutor for each student. In that book, students have a "magic book" that teaches them lessons in a story form while encouraging certain life paths. It's pretty fascinating to consider the implications and whether that's something we'll want, bc it may soon be possible.
- turtleyacht 4y agoRactors for hire! Once AI can generate videos, we just need pervasive surveillance capability to insert context-aware content into the stories. The Primer was able to identify the protagonist's family member and pet toys in its personalized myth. I wonder which TTRPG sourcebook will have the first credit to ChatGPT in DriveThruRPG :) Procedurally-generated worlds plus conversational NPCs!
- hesdeadjim 4y agoUnfortunately the guard rails of the current systems prevent, in my opinion, interesting antagonists in fiction or games. I’ve experimented with some writing and when you can convince ChatGPT to give you some examples of negative behavior it will attempt to bring things back to a wholesome version. GPT-4 having more effective guard rails makes this problem worse.
- turtleyacht 4y agoThank-you, that is interesting. I wonder if ChatGPT has been trained on Dramatica. If not, if we teach it that first in a prompt. The idea of the Storymind is to present a model of a "single brain solving a problem" as a structure of story. So we wrap conflict in this meta-model as "narrative interactions" among a set of quads, without mentioning antagonist or resistance. Instead, somehow we ask ChatGPT to pose as philosophers in a dialog, stressing there is no "physical" action taking place.
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- benkyo256 4y agoWhat kind of prompt(s) would yield these results?
- aphit 4y agoI assume the one from the research page would work: "You are a tutor that always responds in the Socratic style. You never give the student the answer, but always try to ask just the right question to help them learn to think for themselves. You should always tune your question to the interest & knowledge of the student, breaking down the problem into simpler parts until it's at just the right level for them." From: https://openai.com/research/gpt-4 https://openai.com/research/gpt-4
- webnrrd2k 4y agoNow I can get any book I want in the style of The Little Schemer!
- mfer 4y agoA lot of what GPT-4 can return is ideas based on assumptions and beliefs. Who chooses what of these to train the system? Those subtle ideas will then lead students who are mostly children.
- sebzim4500 4y agoI don't think this is such a problem if it is teaching calc-3 and stays on topic. If it's teaching humanities I can see there would be more of an issue.
- andrewclunn 4y agoIt will start with the "areas we can all agree on" and then scope creep will occur. This is the safest prediction I feel I've ever made.
- mfer 4y agoWho is "we all"? For instance, the US is 5% of the worlds population. What we call the west is 20% of the global population? Not even to a quarter of it. Most of the population is outside the west. And, within the west there are a number of topics that people don't agree on which are more base. The world is very diverse.
- pixl97 4y agoAnd that is any different from the school books we currently use how?
- mfer 4y agoFor one, school book authors create books. GPt-4 is the tech industry. You shift who picks the views.
- pixl97 4y ago>school book authors create books Do you want to know how I know you have no idea how grade school textbooks are created in the US? https://www.rangevoting.org/FeynTexts.html https://www.rangevoting.org/FeynTexts.html This was 60 years ago and it's got worse since then.
- 1g0rrr 4y agoWhy do these tech giants receive GPT-4 access much earlier than regular seed startups? Is it fair?!
- wongarsu 4y agoI'd assume that's because the Gates Foundation is one of the biggest financial supporters of Khan Academy, and they can reach the right ears at Microsoft and by extension OpenAI. As always, the right connections are everything
- tssva 4y agoI don't know that I would classify Khan Academy as a tech giant. For the sake of argument let's say they are. Yes it is fair for them to get access earlier. Why would it not be?
- rootusrootus 4y agoSurely on HN of all places we understand that life is not fair. OpenAI is looking out for their own bottom line. That means money, and PR.
- bombcar 4y agoBecause tech giants can write checks that don't bounce (off of SVB).
- tonmoy 4y agoI don’t think Khan Academy would be considered as a Texh Giant. Or are you referring to OpenAI, the creator of GPT-4?
- elil17 4y agoI wouldn't really call Khan Academy a tech giant. They are a charity. That said, it does not necessarily seem like OpenAI is trying to be fair.
- Satam 4y agoI think it's fair but there's a reason why it almost seems natural to raise the question in this scenario. It's OpenAI's hypocrisy and doublespeak. It's their non-stop messaging about equality, alignment, unbiasedness, etc. They can't have it both ways and they will be judged for it.
- praveen9920 4y agoWould love to see "Ender's game" type AI which can train the students with custom questions and answers.
- EpsteinBarr 4y agoThis is extremely powerful. I wish this existed when I was a kid.
- brwck 4y agoWhen I was a kid, I remember one of my teachers saying the same thing about the internet ( google, computers, etc ). Us kids were so lucky to have such powerful tools and everyone in the future will be smarter for it. Turns out, people are dumb as ever and these tools made us lazy and dependent. Why memorize the multiplication table when you could ask siri?
- christophclarke 4y agoThis reminds me of CGP Grey’s “Digital Aristotle”, which actually references both Khan Academy and A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer https://youtu.be/7vsCAM17O-M https://youtu.be/7vsCAM17O-M
- jhp123 4y agoI've tutored people at times. A good tutor needs to understand the subject very well, so they can not only understand the right answer but also figure out why the student is coming to the wrong answer. I personally think that assigning GPT as a "tutor" is devaluing the real skill involved in tutoring and I doubt it will work out.
- navigate8310 4y agoI would like to divert your attention to this recent post: https://openai.com/research/gpt-4 https://openai.com/research/gpt-4 specifically on the topic of "Steerability: Socratic tutor" (Sample 1 of 3)
- itronitron 4y agowhy?
- pnt12 4y agoVery interesting, thanks for referencing it as I had missed it. There have been occurrences of people asking chat gpt to ignore instructions on the initial prompt: have these been solved? It's not clear to me if the first prompt is given any extra weight. Or maybe during training of version 4 they have heavily penalized these sorts of attacks to make it more resilient.
- haskellandchill 4y agoI was trying to get it to teach me Ordinary Differential Equations and it just kept getting everything wrong. It has no concept of checking its work etc, that example makes it appear like it can but I guess it's just getting lucky for linear equations.
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- kirill5pol 4y agoThis is something I’m working on. I think having a good understanding of the material for good explanations is doable in the near future, but the main problem is actually building a good model of what the learner knows to guide the LLM
- misssocrates 4y agoCan Khan Academy replace school at this point? If not, what are they missing?
- hoot 4y agoI wonder what the point of school is even going to be at this point
- lm28469 4y agoWhat's your alternative though ? Having kids learn on screens, play on screens and work on screens ? From kindergarten to the grave ?
- helge9210 4y agoTo provide environment for obtaining social skills and to shape brain development with a series of repeated pedagogical excersises.
- squidsoup 4y agoSchool is more than pure pedagogy - learning social skills, making friends, and developing resilience are equally, if not more important.
- henry2023 4y agoAren't team sports much much better at teaching those?
- lm28469 4y agoThese aren't mutually exclusive, if anything most (virtually all?) school have team sport classes Also: https://www.aspeninstitute.org/blog-posts/7-charts-that-show-the-state-of-youth-sports-in-the-us-and-why-it-matters/ https://www.aspeninstitute.org/blog-posts/7-charts-that-show...
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- nealabq 4y agoCommented just prior: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35155529 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35155529 The responses are interesting.
- mullingitover 4y agoI wonder if this kind of intelligent tutoring could be the answer to Bloom's Two Sigma Problem. The limiting factor with that problem was that not everyone can afford a personal tutor. Having an AI tutor that can breeze through the SAT seems like it should give every student a major boost.
- alach11 4y agoMy mind went to the same place. Knowing that "the average tutored student was above 98% of the students in the control class", imagine how transformative it will be to lift the average student to the 98th percentile! This may be the most transformative change to education since the invention of public schooling.
- sophiabits 4y agoEvery now and then I think about Marc Andreessen’s “software is eating the world” article. He was extremely excited about investing in EdTech and HealthTech software companies at the time—for obvious reasons! But EdTech hasn’t really delivered much value. The modern LMS feels to me like a reinvention of Facebook groups in many ways… LLMs feel like something that _could_ very well end up eating education, and that’s a really exciting prospect. My personal experience with schooling was less than stellar, and figuring out alternative and more scalable ways to get knowledge into kids’ heads has a lot of possible upside for society imo
- falcor84 4y ago> The modern LMS feels to me like a reinvention of Facebook groups in many ways I agree with your sentiment that there's a lot more potential value to be derived from EdTech than we've seen so far, but even if LMS's are "just" like Facebook groups, that's already the equivalent of hundreds of billions of dollars in economic value. When I was a kid, if I was sick for a few days, I had to manually copy my friend's notes after I returned to school, and would still feel confused. Now, with an LMS, I have access to all the learning content from home, for my own class, and for resources from similar classes taught by amazing teachers from across the world, at any modality I prefer. This on its own is incredible value. (although with the caveat that being sick is no longer the excuse to rest and relax as it used to be)
- gsatic 4y agoSo untested and using kids as guinea pigs again. Well done. Keep it up. Just a never ending mindless need to make big claims constantly.
- falcor84 4y agoThey literally announced that they're testing this on a small sample of kids whose parents opt-in. I don't see any better approach, seeing how the sentiments of "untested" and "using kids as guinea pigs" are contradictory.
- davesque 4y agoGPT-4 definitely seems to be doing better on a lot of benchmarks and that's impressive. But it still hallucinates facts and I don't think anyone really has a good understanding of when and how that happens. Given that, is it really a good idea to be positioning this model as some kind of factual authority figure?
- thethimble 4y agoHuman teachers make mistakes too - perhaps even at higher rates than GPT in some cases. Instead of isolating a single factor of hallucinations I think you have to also consider the cost and experience quality and make a more holistic judgement on whether these models are good or bad.
- davesque 4y agoYes, but human teachers can eventually come to understand why they made a mistake. And they probably are more able to communicate how confident they are in their answers. I think that's because human teachers have a mental model that they're working from. On the other hand, we have no idea if transformer models are working from anything like a "mental model." Just because humans make mistakes (or even as many or more mistakes than machines) doesn't mean the nature or consequences of the mistakes are the same.
- sebzim4500 4y ago>Just because humans make mistakes (or even as many or more mistakes than machines) doesn't mean the nature or consequences of the mistakes are the same. True, but this shouldn't be hard to measure. It's not like we will go from these AIs will go from teaching no one to replacing all teachers overnight. Give a random sample of classes access to a GPT-n powered tutor, and see if they do better or worse over the next few years.
- davesque 4y ago> this shouldn't be hard to measure > see if they do better or worse over the next few years This doesn't strike me as entirely ethical. Also, it may be hard to gauge the long term effects of subtle misinformation generated by these models.
- worrycue 4y agoAm I the only one somewhat alarmed that we are choosing to rely on AIs that are vulnerable to hallucinations so much? Personally I rather have a more limited but reliable tool than a more powerful but unreliable one.
- MagicMoonlight 4y agoDon’t expect it to know specific facts but it is excellent at explaining topics
- acomjean 4y agoIts more troubling because its being used in a role as an educational resource. the audience is learning and significantly less able to realize that.
- cypress66 4y agoChatgpt is already more accurate than a lot of my high school teachers.
- megaman821 4y agoMy thoughts exactly. What is the baseline here? Teachers already give biased and/or inaccurate information at a rate much higher than I have seen in ChatGPT.
- superfrank 4y agoIs there a name for this fallacy (is it a fallacy?). I feel like we see the same issue with self driving cars crash rates. People are hesitant to adopt because they aren't perfect, but ignore that it's better than the status quo.
- vsareto 4y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nirvana_fallacy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nirvana_fallacy maybe?
- jcims 4y agoI’m sitting on the couch with my new grandson. He’s six months old. What is school going to look like for him over the course of his education? Should be interesting.
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- Buttons840 4y agoMy daughter is in 2nd grade and math is her favorite subject. I liked math too. I've looked forward to helping her learn more advance math through the years, but a doubt has entered my mind; will I have any reason to help her?
- WASDx 4y agoThis sounds like an argument from when calculators were invented. We will keep getting more powerful technologies, and you will need to understand them. What we should be learning will continue to gradually shift.
- zild3d 4y agoAbsolutely. With mobile internet/search engines, knowing how and where to find information became a more important skill than having to memorize that information
- lajamerr 4y agoAI can efficiently teach your daughter how to solve math problems, but as a human, you can provide her with the context and understanding of why and what she's learning. AI is great at handling the technical aspects, freeing us to focus on cultivating our uniquely human qualities of empathy, creativity, and critical thinking. Letting the AI teach the how and the human teach the why and what can lead to a more holistic and enriching education.
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- agumonkey 4y agoJust when many education systems are struggling, this comes up. It's gonna be interesting to see if it helps self organizing and self learning (removing the negative side effects of group learning in school settings) or if it will just add noise and chaos.
- hiccuphippo 4y agoI wonder if the students can direct the AI to give them questions similar to what would show up in the tests. Do the teachers use the same AI as the students?
- raldi 4y agoI don't think tests will work at all like that much longer; they'll be more like oral exams, where you have a back-and-forth conversation with an AI that probes the breadth and depth of your knowledge with sufficient variability as to detect overfitting (i.e., memorizing the answers to a few previous exams).
- paulpan 4y agoTeachGPT when? This seems like a no-brainer next step for OpenAI, to derive an AI instructor from GPT-4 without a partner like Khan Academy. I suppose that may require a "truer" multimodality of ChatGPT being able to generate images or visual patterns. Imagine being able to onboard new employees via such an agent or learning about complex subjects.
- raldi 4y agoThis is why it doesn't matter if AI lets students cheat on essays: Essays will soon be obsolete — not just for students, but for everyone. The two main purposes of an essay are to teach others about something in your head, and to develop and refine such ideas in the first place. Very soon, it'll be much faster, easier, and more prolific to spread an idea by conversing with an AI about it and letting it go off and talk to others about it. If some of those people have interesting feedback, questions, or find a flaw, the AI can distill it all down to a time-efficient debriefing it can come back to you with. And an advanced AI makes for a great partner to bounce new ideas off and chew them over with.
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- bogwog 4y agoWhat is the point of teaching children these topics, when they'll be obsolete by the time they're old enough to enter the job market?
- itronitron 4y agoI'm currently homeschooling two teenagers and one of the most interesting aspects for me is learning all the material that I 'supposedly learned' way back when I was in high school. I graduated, went to a great university, and yet virtually all of the stuff that we are learning in the current HS curriculum is new to me despite my having taken the same classes. I honestly don't know how I graduated high school, except to consider that I was very good at parroting back recently received information. Most of what students are learning will be obsolete by the time they enter the job market, but on the plus side they will have forgotten it anyway. The most important thing from my perspective is ensuring that those topics don't use up too much of their time as I think most intelligent people are able to acquire the knowledge and skills they need as they come to need it.
- ourmandave 4y agoStackOverflow.com banned Chat-GPT answers 3 months ago and their traffic is down. https://techcabal.com/2023/01/31/stack-overflow-chat-gpt/ https://techcabal.com/2023/01/31/stack-overflow-chat-gpt/ But on the plus side, this news means there will be fewer do-my-homework-for-me questions.
- pixl97 4y agoI mean, at the same time could that not also mean that people are going straight to ChatGPT to ask the question in the first place?
- deely3 4y agoNope unfortunately. Main reason is that people used ChatGPT to generate not validated and sometime completely wrong answers that looks very realistic.
- epicureanideal 4y agoGiven ChatGPT’s ideological bias, is it wise to promote it to children?
- avgDev 4y agoAt this point I won't be surprised if over the next few weeks and months hacker news is going to be full {insert org here} integrates GPT-4.
- pixl97 4y agoI mean honestly, if I took the corpus of our companies support data and used it as a training set for our first line support, I believe that GPT could answer the questions better than they do first shot. No idea what the cost difference would be, but for many businesses I could see the AI response be a costs savings.
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- 8note 4y agoHow do you monitor for ai correctness on these topics? For gpt-3, that's been the user, but a student roughly has to take the ai at face value. Some secondary ai double checking the output? What's the loop like for saying oops to the student?
- falcor84 4y agoIn this case, as I understand it, the idea is that the existing Khan Academy system generates a random question, the AI helps the student solve it, and then the student provides the answer to the original system, which then validates it. I would also assume that Khan Academy could inject the true answer into the GPT prompt and instruct the AI to hide it from the user, but rely on it in its explanation, in order to reduce the risk of misleading outputs.
- ian0 4y agoIts not there yet. Im testing out a teaching assistant and it doesn't catch wrong answers (eg question was whats 2 + 4, answer given was 4). I think its good for explaining concepts but not yet structuring the lesson or basic reasoning (this is 1st grade)
- finikytou 4y agocan't wait for a GPT4 history teacher talking about darwin.
- falcor84 4y ago> "It's important that you learn how to do this yourself!" I find this response by the AI tutor to be unbearably ironic - if there's an AI that could do it better than me, and well enough to teach me, then it seems quite unimportant that I learn to do it myself. While of course I see a benefit to some people learning mathematics from scratch, for advanced research and continuity purposes, at this point I think that saying that it's important for "everyone" to learn math (at least beyond the very basics) is almost equivalent to saying that it's important that everyone learn how to grow grain, weave fabric and mix cement.