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mcculley 4 hours ago

An idea I have been thinking about: Increasingly powerful chatbots provide more teaching capacity. I think this will lead to counterintuitive outcomes like teaching environments where the human student is not allowed to use any device but is being taught and tested by a synthetic intelligence.

dylanowen 4 hours ago | parent [-]

That sounds very dystopian. The ai teacher part, not the no devices part

mcculley 17 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

I never said that AI should replace all teachers. AI can help provide more teaching labor (more teaching capacity). Every child can have a personalized tutor in addition to human teachers.

See Bloom's 2 sigma problem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom%27s_2_sigma_problem

hombre_fatal 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

That would have sadly be an improvement for the majority of teachers I've had in my life, even university classes because they were taught by a TA phd student I couldn't understand.

Fire-Dragon-DoL 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

It sounds distopian, but AI has been a big boost to learning at least for me personally. Of course the problem is when it's wrong.