The child will be saying "It's not laziness. It's the dog." to her teacher...
Building a real-time AI tutor for 5-year-olds
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Re: Building a real-time AI tutor for 5-year-olds
#192I wish I had had this when I was a 5-year-old. Few of my teachers really understood the things I wanted to learn, my peers weren't interested in the nerdy things I was, and my parents certainly didn't have the wealth to provide me with private tutoring. There are a lot of negative comments here, but they are shallow... I'm sure those commenters wouldn't want to live without the access to the Internet, and even a bril…
>Few of my teachers really understood the things I wanted to learn, my peers weren't interested in the nerdy things I was, and my parents certainly didn't have the wealth to provide me with private tutoring.
I can understand saying that when you're in middle or high school. But as a 5 year old? This comment has to be a joke?
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#193I can't imagine a worse use case for AI. Literally thought the title was a clown
Biological weapons research seems like a worse use case to be honest.
Re: Building a real-time AI tutor for 5-year-olds
#194Earlier quoted context omitted.
"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…
In practice, yes. In theory a machines can do about everything a human can, but better and cheaper. One of the main constraint for education is available tutor time, see e.g. Bloom's 2 sigma experiment. Obviously there are many pitfalls to overcome at the moment, but eventually machines will become better teachers than teachers, and not many parents will send their kids to public schools if the kids can learn much fa…
>In practice, yes. In theory a machines can do about everything a human can, but better and cheaper.
It cannot be a human, which is a large part of what humans offer to children.
This seems like a large problem to me.
Re: Building a real-time AI tutor for 5-year-olds
#195What are your thoughts about children in a Sudbury School model? These are democratic schools where children can do what they like in the day. Mostly they choose to play with other kids, games of imagination, though also doing screen time. One of the basic principles is that children figure out what they want to do and the learning comes along with it; the model views adults wanting children to learn something specif…
Sounds a bit like unschooling which is a terrible idea because kids don't know what they need to know.
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#196I can't imagine a worse use case for AI. Literally thought the title was a clown
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#197I can't imagine a worse use case for AI. Literally thought the title was a clown
It was amusing for a moment watching all these logical technical people act like religious fundamentalists about AI, fitting problems to the predetermined solution, but now it’s just upsetting how much the people with no empathy or understanding have decided they should run the world
What?
Re: Building a real-time AI tutor for 5-year-olds
#198I'm torn about this. I primarily think that a a kid who won't pick books is a failure of the family of not noticing their interests. When i noticed my oldest 3 yr old was obsessed about cars, i bought him a car encyclopedia. He probably could not read most words or did not understand them. But pretty soon he was telling me about car models that i did not even recognize myself. And as i saw interests, i kept feeding t…
> At some point, you need to watch out for cynical/nasty series. In fact, all of the books we purchase are ranked against peers they have read in the past, or those we know to actively avoid buying due to cynicism, sarcasm, or open disdain towards adults (Wimpy Kid). This is interesting because when I was 7-8 my mum just recommended me whatever books she was reading, some of which were quite... adult in retrospect, a…
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#199Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
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?)
Won't somebody think of the poor people's kids?!
Seriously though, it's great they're going to donate all this compute & tokens to the poor (who by definition can't afford to pay for it).
Re: Building a real-time AI tutor for 5-year-olds
#200I'm torn about this. I primarily think that a a kid who won't pick books is a failure of the family of not noticing their interests. When i noticed my oldest 3 yr old was obsessed about cars, i bought him a car encyclopedia. He probably could not read most words or did not understand them. But pretty soon he was telling me about car models that i did not even recognize myself. And as i saw interests, i kept feeding t…
"I'm torn about this."
I'm not. Keep AI the hell away from teaching children.