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Re: Study mode

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Post by echelon »

righthand wrote: post #10
jryio wrote: post #5

I would like to see randomized control group studies using study mode. Does it offer meaningful benefits to students over self directed study? Does it out perform students who are "learning how to learn"? What affect does allowing students to make mistakes have compared to being guided through what to review? I would hope Study Mode would produce flash card prompts and quantize information for usage in spaced repetit…

It doesn’t do any of that, it just captures the student market more. They want a student to use it and say “I wouldn’t have learned anything without study mode”. This also allows them to fill their data coffers more with bleeding edge education. “Please input the data you are studying and we will summarize it for you.”

Such a smart play.

Re: Study mode

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Post by LordDragonfang »

nemomarx wrote: post #9
swader999 wrote: post #4

Why do I still feel like I'll be paying hundreds of thousands of dollars for my children's education when all they're going to do is all learn through AI anyway.

Well, you're generally paying for the 8 hour daycare part before the education, right? That still needs human staff around unless you're doing distance learning e: if you mean university, fair. that'll be an interesting transition. I guess then you pay for the sports team and amenities?

At that price tag I assume they're referring to college, not grade school, so the "daycare" portion isn't relevant.

Re: Study mode

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Post by Scubabear68 »

nemomarx wrote: post #9
swader999 wrote: post #4

Why do I still feel like I'll be paying hundreds of thousands of dollars for my children's education when all they're going to do is all learn through AI anyway.

Well, you're generally paying for the 8 hour daycare part before the education, right? That still needs human staff around unless you're doing distance learning e: if you mean university, fair. that'll be an interesting transition. I guess then you pay for the sports team and amenities?

No.

In the US at least, most kids are in public schools and the collective community foots the bill for the “daycare”, as you put it.

Re: Study mode

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Post by [deleted] »

nemomarx wrote: post #9
swader999 wrote: post #4

Why do I still feel like I'll be paying hundreds of thousands of dollars for my children's education when all they're going to do is all learn through AI anyway.

Well, you're generally paying for the 8 hour daycare part before the education, right? That still needs human staff around unless you're doing distance learning e: if you mean university, fair. that'll be an interesting transition. I guess then you pay for the sports team and amenities?

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Re: Study mode

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Post by toisanji »

I truly believe AI will change all of education for the better, but of course it can also hinder learning if used improperly. Those who want to genuinely learn will learn while those looking for shortcuts will cause more harm to themselves. I just did a show HN today about something semi related.

I made A deep research assistant for families. Children can ask questions to explain difficult concepts and for parents to ask how to deal with any parenting situation. For example a 4 year old may ask “why does the plate break when it falls?”

example output: https://www.studyturtle.com/ask/PJ24GoWQ-pizza-sibling-fight...

app: https://www.studyturtle.com/ask/

Show HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44723280

Re: Study mode

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Post by czhu12 »

I'll personally attest: LLM's have been absolutely incredible to self learn new things post graduation. It used to be that if you got stuck on a concept, you're basically screwed. Unless it was common enough to show up in a well formed question on stack exchange, it was pretty much impossible, and the only thing you can really do is keep paving forward and hope at some point, it'll make sense to you.

Now, everyone basically has a personal TA, ready to go at all hours of the day.

I get the commentary that it makes learning too easy or shallow, but I doubt anyone would think that college students would learn better if we got rid of TA's.

Re: Study mode

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Post by deanc »

I’m curious what these features like study mode actually are. Are they not just using prompts behind this (of which I’ve used many already to make LLMs behave like this) ?

Re: Study mode

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Post by eternauta3k »

czhu12 wrote: post #26

I'll personally attest: LLM's have been absolutely incredible to self learn new things post graduation. It used to be that if you got stuck on a concept, you're basically screwed. Unless it was common enough to show up in a well formed question on stack exchange, it was pretty much impossible, and the only thing you can really do is keep paving forward and hope at some point, it'll make sense to you. Now, everyone ba…

You can always ask in stack exchange, IRC or forums.
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