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Does anyone expect LLMs to be good at tutoring? Like, sure, if you prompt them to talk like a tutor they generate text that looks convincing. But they spew nons
by 8organicbits 2y ago
Does anyone expect LLMs to be good at tutoring? Like, sure, if you prompt them to talk like a tutor they generate text that looks convincing. But they spew nonsense and you need a subject matter expert to know when they've gone off the rails. And it's really easy to get factually incorrect information from LLMs. Students are uniquely unequiped to act as that SME as they don't have the knowledge yet. I haven't even seen LLMs add numbers reliably. I don't get this idea.
- plexicle 2y agoI didn't think so either. But it's Karphathy... and he's way smarter than I am.
- skeeter2020 2y agousing AI to tackle the pinnacle of education ex: "tutored by the premiere minds in the subject area" feels a lot like self-driving cars in the most dynamic, entropy-filled environments. Why try to solve the vast majority of the problem like easier driving scenarios? We don't need Feynman to teach physics when high school graduates can't read or do basic math. I guess there's no glory or money in this application...