Khan Academy integrates GPT-4 as every student’s customized tutor

Post by nonethewiser » Tue, Mar 14, 2023, 7:19 PM UTC

wesleychen wrote: post #48

jamestimmins wrote: post #14

Highly recommend the Neal Stephenson book The Diamond Age: Or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer , for an interesting exploration of a custom AI tutor for each student. In that book, students have a "magic book" that teaches them lessons in a story form while encouraging certain life paths. It's pretty fascinating to consider the implications and whether that's something we'll want, bc it may soon be possible.

Khan Academy's integration of GPT-4 already steers students towards particular modes of thought. According to the article, they want "to get students thinking deeply about the content that they’re learning" and in the examples, Khanmigo prompts students to recall information from the lesson rather than directly explaining how to solve the problem. I think what Khan Academy has done here is desirable, but just as Step…

Post by [deleted] » Tue, Mar 14, 2023, 7:23 PM UTC

Sol- wrote: post #10

Given that learning will probably soon not be required anymore to live a successful life (AIs will do everything better than you), I guess such learning-as-a-hobby apps will be the remaining niche to entertain the humans on basic income. I wonder how many people will actually make use of it, though, and how many are instead content with being wireheaded by the various AI-based content apps that will appear, full with…

Post by twiddling » Tue, Mar 14, 2023, 7:24 PM UTC

corobo wrote: post #52

misssocrates wrote: post #36

Can Khan Academy replace school at this point? If not, what are they missing?

Looking after kids while the parents work

Post by vorpalhex » Tue, Mar 14, 2023, 7:25 PM UTC

nonethewiser wrote: post #71

wesleychen wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Khan Academy's integration of GPT-4 already steers students towards particular modes of thought. According to the article, they want "to get students thinking deeply about the content that they’re learning" and in the examples, Khanmigo prompts students to recall information from the lesson rather than directly explaining how to solve the problem. I think what Khan Academy has done here is desirable, but just as Step…

Interesting. Should they drop support for Chinese?

Post by sophiabits » Tue, Mar 14, 2023, 7:26 PM UTC

alach11 wrote: post #57

mullingitover wrote: post #39

I wonder if this kind of intelligent tutoring could be the answer to Bloom's Two Sigma Problem. The limiting factor with that problem was that not everyone can afford a personal tutor. Having an AI tutor that can breeze through the SAT seems like it should give every student a major boost.

My mind went to the same place. Knowing that "the average tutored student was above 98% of the students in the control class", imagine how transformative it will be to lift the average student to the 98th percentile! This may be the most transformative change to education since the invention of public schooling.