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Khan Academy's integration of GPT-4 already steers students towards particular modes of thought. According to the article, they want "to get students thinking d
by wesleychen 4y ago
Khan Academy's integration of GPT-4 already steers students towards particular modes of thought. According to the article, they want "to get students thinking deeply about the content that they’re learning" and in the examples, Khanmigo prompts students to recall information from the lesson rather than directly explaining how to solve the problem.
I think what Khan Academy has done here is desirable, but just as Stephenson's Primer enforces its creator's values through AI tutoring, Khanmigo is enforcing Khan Academy's values. It's easy to imagine how someone with more authoritarian values could use this same technology (e.g. to teach students to follow instructions without doubt) to indoctrinate students with scale.
- nonethewiser 4y agoInteresting. Should they drop support for Chinese?
- vorpalhex 4y agoIf openAI can do it, so can other companies in time. At best they would cause competitive systems faster and likely with fewer safeguards by hard blocking languages or users.
- hrn_34 4y agoMore authoritarian values? Isn't this what's happening now from the perspective of foreign countries? The USA enforcing values foreign to these countries.
- TedDoesntTalk 4y ago> Khanmigo is enforcing Khan Academy's values Every teacher does that, sometimes intentionally and sometimes not.
- tclancy 4y agoBut individual teachers don't scale to planet-size. Or at least they didn't used to.
- pixl97 4y agoAI Teacher: "And that was how the civil war ended... Now remember kids, the most important thing you can do is be nice to each other and contribute more data and processor time to growing the AI. Thank you, have a good day"
- thelittleone 4y agoTrue, but teachers don't (yet) have an API. What's interesting here (to me at least) is the potential to enforce values at scale.