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

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

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Post by tgv »

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.

It's not the tutoring alone. It's also the social effect. A machine simply does not exert that kind of influence, nor do online courses require the same amount of dedication and ambition. Compare MOOCs: they have incredibly high drop-out rates.

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Post by arcanemachiner »

nebula8804 wrote: post #13
dekhn wrote: post #2

The cynic in me wonders if "AI" has realized that the most efficient way to take over the world is to teach the next generation to be dependent on it for learning.

There will probably be a janky but usable open source version of the model and tool eventually. The "Linux" option. That way the 1% that cares about this stuff can do the self host route and retain control by them controlling what the model tells them(hopefully).

I unsarcastically look forward to a worse version that respects user privacy.

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Post by misssocrates »

cyrialize wrote: post #60
hoot wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wonder what the point of school is even going to be at this point

I had a similar reply in a separate thread, but human-to-human interaction is extremely important for young children. Teachers teach much more than school subjects in the classroom - they teach how to behave, how to ask for help, how to interact with others, etc. I often feel like teachers of young children teach them how to be "human". I think as people age they can probably rely more on Khan Academy, etc. Maybe thi…

> teach how to behave, how to ask for help, how to interact with others, etc. I often feel like teachers of young children teach them how to be "human".

Isn't that the job description of parents and/or day care?

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

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Post by thelittleone »

TedDoesntTalk wrote: post #94
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…

> Khanmigo is enforcing Khan Academy's values Every teacher does that, sometimes intentionally and sometimes not.

True, but teachers don't (yet) have an API. What's interesting here (to me at least) is the potential to enforce values at scale.

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Post by visarga »

the8472 wrote: post #82
worrycue wrote: post #67

Am I the only one somewhat alarmed that we are choosing to rely on AIs that are vulnerable to hallucinations so much? Personally I rather have a more limited but reliable tool than a more powerful but unreliable one.

They're saying that they have reduced hallucinations. But RLHF seems to undo some of the improvements (figure 8 in the paper).

Those are calibration curves for confidence.

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

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Post by yterdy »

shawnjan8 wrote: post #6

Just to be clear: it's not for every student (at least not yet!). We are in a research phase sharing it with a limited subset of users. More details about our approach to the responsible development of AI: https://blog.khanacademy.org/aiguidelines/

>it's not for every student (at least not yet!)

>Donation required after chosen from waitlist

So, it's for rich ones?

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Post by itronitron »

worrycue wrote: post #67

Am I the only one somewhat alarmed that we are choosing to rely on AIs that are vulnerable to hallucinations so much? Personally I rather have a more limited but reliable tool than a more powerful but unreliable one.

There are two indicators that this is PR bullshit produced by whoever is trying to capitalize their investment, 1) is the use of the marketing term 'AI' or 'AI-powered' and 2) use of the 'think of the children' trope.

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

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Post by visarga »

oh_sigh wrote: post #100
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.

Every student might get an absolute boost, but the relative gap may even widen. Consider students who can afford to use cutting edge, expensive to train/run models, vs students who can only use off the shelf, older models.

More likely AI will be cheap and widespread like electricity. Data likes to be free.

Assuming the divide will be real, you can just record a million problem solutions from ExpensiveLM and use it to tune your CheapLM, it will be a specialised cheap model that works ok on your task of interest.

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

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Post by itronitron »

the8472 wrote: post #82
worrycue wrote: post #67

Am I the only one somewhat alarmed that we are choosing to rely on AIs that are vulnerable to hallucinations so much? Personally I rather have a more limited but reliable tool than a more powerful but unreliable one.

They're saying that they have reduced hallucinations. But RLHF seems to undo some of the improvements (figure 8 in the paper).

'reduced hallucinations', um ok.
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