ChatGPT can be a great supplement for independent research. But when the article mentions a “curious seventh-grader”, I think we should focus on getting them qu

ChatGPT can be a great supplement for independent research. But when the article mentions a “curious seventh-grader”, I think we should focus on getting them quality human instruction whenever possible instead of just pointing them to ChatGPT. ChatGPT addresses a scalability problem: not everyone has access to a tutor or can just call up a teacher or mentor to learn and ask questions. But some in the tech industry claim that ChatGPT is as good as or even better than human instruction, which to me seems totally off base. The biggest problem I see in using LLMs as a teacher-substitute is that LLMs answer the questions you ask, whereas a good teacher tells you what you need to hear. Maybe this is solvable with specialized model tuning, but we need to actually solve it before telling kids that the best way to learn is to talk to the computer.