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Some manager at LLM provider: "hey, we can sell 'education' ability as a separate product!".

by zx8080 4mo ago

baq 4mo ago
You jest, but I’m actually convinced education-tuned LLMs are (today) the only way education outcomes can actually improve in the AI era. As is, students are leveraging them for doing homework which makes homework useless, you want and economically need a model which can work as a 1:1 tutor with minimal supervision (and some hardware so lessons aren’t keyboard-driven).
- zx8080 4mo ago
  > and some hardware so lessons aren’t keyboard-driven). What's wrong with (screen-, probably) keyboard?
  - baq 4mo ago
    Writing with a pen or pencil has better learning outcomes than with a keyboard for neurological reasons. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11943480/ https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11943480/
    - NonHyloMorph 4mo ago
      Most kids can't use a keyboard and never will. Their Apple Pencil scribbles don't seem to make them particularly smarter. Pen&pencil-> create something from (almost) nothing. Stylus input-> subpar slow interface for computation. Ipad data storage above par organisational help (no loosing lousy stuffed in bag paper). I kinda liked the AI to transpose handwritten/drawn notes into digitally orderable artifacts. Seen a couple Show HNs. Are there any advances in the field (preferably OSS or one time purchaseable as alternatively) (To add on to this: the utter physical imprecision of stylis pens is annoying. I can FEEL where a sharpt tip of a tool that is elongating my hand touches a surface and how it moves on a very fine scale/resolution. Probably not a problem for people who have not developed highly sensitive sensomotor perception because they grew up with a lot of flattness in there surrounding and not much plasticity, but: my god are these things clumsy. I always want to reach for a sharpener when i use an apple pencil lol.
      - alchemism 4mo ago
        You can buy finer-tipped replacement caps for the mechanical pencil effect. Then there is the second problem: the texture of glass instead of paper.

Some manager at LLM provider: "hey, we can sell 'education' ability as a separate product!".

by zx8080 4mo ago

Some manager at LLM provider: "hey, we can sell 'education' ability as a separate product!".

baq 4mo ago

You jest, but I’m actually convinced education-tuned LLMs are (today) the only way education outcomes can actually improve in the AI era. As is, students are leveraging them for doing homework which makes homework useless, you want and economically need a model which can work as a 1:1 tutor with minimal supervision (and some hardware so lessons aren’t keyboard-driven).

zx8080 4mo ago
> and some hardware so lessons aren’t keyboard-driven). What's wrong with (screen-, probably) keyboard?
- baq 4mo ago
  Writing with a pen or pencil has better learning outcomes than with a keyboard for neurological reasons. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11943480/ https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11943480/
  - NonHyloMorph 4mo ago
    Most kids can't use a keyboard and never will. Their Apple Pencil scribbles don't seem to make them particularly smarter. Pen&pencil-> create something from (almost) nothing. Stylus input-> subpar slow interface for computation. Ipad data storage above par organisational help (no loosing lousy stuffed in bag paper). I kinda liked the AI to transpose handwritten/drawn notes into digitally orderable artifacts. Seen a couple Show HNs. Are there any advances in the field (preferably OSS or one time purchaseable as alternatively) (To add on to this: the utter physical imprecision of stylis pens is annoying. I can FEEL where a sharpt tip of a tool that is elongating my hand touches a surface and how it moves on a very fine scale/resolution. Probably not a problem for people who have not developed highly sensitive sensomotor perception because they grew up with a lot of flattness in there surrounding and not much plasticity, but: my god are these things clumsy. I always want to reach for a sharpener when i use an apple pencil lol.
    - alchemism 4mo ago
      You can buy finer-tipped replacement caps for the mechanical pencil effect. Then there is the second problem: the texture of glass instead of paper.