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No. LLMs aren't capable of learning how a student best learns. Nor are they capable of really "teaching". At best, using an LLM this way would get it to parrot
by Night_Thastus 3y ago
No. LLMs aren't capable of learning how a student best learns. Nor are they capable of really "teaching".
At best, using an LLM this way would get it to parrot out existing, common explanations for some math topics.
If you asked it something outside its existing knowledge base (or asked it a question from a different perspective), it would make up fake or logically inconsistent, but very reasonable-sounding explanations which would be horrific for a student trying to learn.
It cannot actually learn mathematics or logic itself, so it has no way to ensure that its explanations are logically or mathmatically sound.
- spywaregorilla 3y agoidk. I think if I were a kid provided with a curriculum of math, I could have grinded out many years of progress in a fraction of the time using an LLM. I would probably not have practiced the execution of curriculum, but I would have been hitting a lot of different reasoning models. The ability to ask followup questions in LLMs is great. And its proficiency in grade school math is very good. I'd rather be able to think through vector spaces than be able to solve algebraic equations effectively and efficiently.