The reality is, most 5 year olds don’t get access to the resources most of us have had while growing up. People are saying, “kids should have human tutors.” Guys, most people in the world don’t have any tutors! What Ello has built and other forms of AI-based tutoring is going to raise the average level of education and literacy in the world. Especially in developing countries. Let individual parents decide what’s best for their kids.

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spaqin 37 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

5 year old kids should have enough play time with their peers and develop their social skills, instead of being sat in front of a screen with any kind of content. I feel a parallel between this and people defending short form video saying "but sometimes it's educational!" (it's not).

	▲	Maxatar 11 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		There's more than enough time in a day for a 5 year old to play with other kids and also spend some time learning.

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afry1 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Most of them don't get access. So let's hook them up to an insane, unproven, unpredictable autocomplete math equation and entrust it to their development as a human being.

So gross.

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jph00 an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Heaven forbid we let poor people use software that helps their kids read.

If they can't afford a tutor, they deserve nothing.

(Am I doing this right?)

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atmavatar 31 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Your reaction is based on 3 unproven assertions:

* An AI tutor is a net positive in learning for the subject matter it covers.

* An AI tutor does not cause other harms.

* An AI tutor is going to be cheap enough that someone who cannot afford a human tutor will still be able to afford an AI tutor.

I'm mostly willing to give the benefit of the doubt on the first point, but the third point seems unlikely, and history has given us no shortage of reasons to distrust tech companies on the second point, even if we assume this company can be trusted now.

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bluefirebrand an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

We could encourage parents to take an active role in tutoring their kids but I guess that's just entirely out of the question?

Nah. Let's have AI do it

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CaptWorld 40 minutes ago | parent [-]

Yeah tell them to change things.. why didn't we think of that? Provide opportunities to make parenting less stressful like here so that they can involve more.. this reflexive anti AI luddite attitude isn't productive as it's just less signal and more noise..

	▲	forgetfreeman 14 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		"reflexive anti AI luddite attitude" That's awfully reductive there, champ. Most critiques of AI are based on some combination of observed failings of the technology, observed failings of the tech industry writ large, and healthy skepticism in the face of Yet Another Tech Industry Hype Typhoon. Anyway, the burden of proof isn't on skeptics, it's on the technology and it's proponents, so let's see some receipts before we agree to squander limited public resources on unproven systems yeah?

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jatins an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

> insane, unproven, unpredictable autocomplete math equation

It won IMO, solved Erdos problems. At what point will you stop saying that?

	▲	forgetfreeman 12 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Probably when it stops agreeing with me when I tell it that industrial quantities of garlic salt are an acceptable substitution for coco powder in a chocolate mousse recipe...
	▲	NegativeLatency 42 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Also encouraged a guy to kill himself.

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forgetfreeman 19 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

"AI-based tutoring is going to raise the average level of education and literacy in the world"

Without exception every claim made to date about tech boosting educational outcomes has been provably false. As in, adding tech to the education process results in measurably less education, and this finding seems to track across all age cohorts. Furthermore, unless parents have significant education credentials they aren't qualified to make informed decisions on what's best for their kids in this context.