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You believe that the ai will teach? Would you want a private company to replace all teachers with a chatbot, if it can?

Have you personally, ever used AI to teach you something? What was it and how was your experience? Was is the same, superior or inferior to a standard, typical, in-class learning experience?

I have certain ly asked about topics i am not familiar with. It is difficult to say i learned anything better than a regular google search at best. However, I am not sure what lacks in the inclasslearningexperience that needs wholesale replacement.

AI is indispensable teacher already. Patient, kind, will trying myriad of different angles to explain concepts that are still foreign to the pupil. My 13-year old uses AI all the time for studying, review, quizzing, grasping new concepts... Compared to humans, AI is far superior in many regards. I am very patient by nature but my kid is just so curious about everything and I get peeved when I am unable to explain something to her in terms she understands. AI will go one way and then another way and then another way and then will provide questions and quizzes and ... to make sure concepts are grasped correctly, with additional things to take a concept further. I would never say that private company should replace teachers with the chatbot, AI is "not a private company" in general and there are many ways to use AI which is not tied to some one (or two or three) private companies. But not using AI as a tool in this day/age I think is quite silly

Ai, is not a private company but the providers that would get the contract are. If open source or even open wieght llms are likely then I would be willing to concede a tiny bit more. The only nonprofit I can think of making genAi hid the weights and went for profit as soon as it was viable, you can see how this is cause for skepticism.

> If open source or even open wieght llms are likely then I would be willing to concede a tiny bit more

And this is exactly the argument I make on this thread. You might be unable to see it though because apparently it's a deeply unpopular take.

Agreed wholeheatedly. Unfortunately, school administrators, teachers and a lot of parents are absolutely opposed to this insight.

I made a main comment to this very post with a similar perspective that's downvoted so heavily I can't even see it while logged out.

We could literally build "A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer" now. I'm sure someone is working on it. Whether that will be a net positive for students is unknown.

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/172835/the-diamond-...

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