and then the AI explains how it was solved, step by step. You can repeatedly ask it to clarify, and it has endless patience and won't get bored or sick of you.
Eventually, you understand how the equation is solved. No human teacher would be able to achieve this.
This immediately reminds me of the scene in Terminator 2 where Sarah Connor is reflecting on how the terminator, reprogrammed to aid John Connor, is the best father figure he’s ever had.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tksN5Jaan9E
“It would never leave him, and it would never hurt him. Never shout at him or get drunk and hit him or say he was too busy to spend time with him. It would always be there, and it would die to protect him.”
Amazing. what a beautiful scene, words, everything. And it's objectively true.
For example, unless the instructor has some kind of Jedi master level self control they may begin to show frustration at being asked the same question repeatedly or with minor variations.
If they choose to use an AI to "cheat" and not learn, then it is no different than them using any other methods to not learn (such as truancy).
You can say, ELI5 (like the Explain Like I'm 5 years old Subreddit), or explain it like a child, or explain it in very simple English (which is like Simple English wikipedia).
It is actually going to be the greatest learning tool, but only for people that genuinely want to learn.
Certainly as my parent's generation must have been with the internet and computers for me.
I'm not sure what to do with this envy. Though, it has made me want to have a child even more, just to see first hand how they could develop so much faster and smarter than me.
One of the things I have hugely enjoyed about LLMs is asking the same question again and again until I finally get why it is the way it is.
No human could deal with "I don't get it, try explaining it another way..." after the 10th time.
Not all teachers are able to see the POV of the student. In fact, i would argue that only exceptionally good teachers are able to.
Whether AI can achieve this level of understanding is still yet to be seen, but i would hope it is possible.
It's just a matter of priorities for the company designing the models.
> Maybe have the network which generates the answer be moderated by another network that assesses the truthiness of it.
Like a GAN? Sometimes you can do that, but it seems not always.
If this was simple and obvious, they'd have done it as soon as the first one was interesting-but-wrong.
They would, but only if you were rich enough to afford a personal tutor. There's plenty of scientific evidence that students who have one learn a lot faster than those stuck in a classroom. With AI, you can probably get most of the benefits of a personal tutor for a fraction of the price.
Not true, but only available at great expense.