To me, good teaching is always approximating the father to son(mother to daughter) or master to apprentice dynamic. It is about experienced humans passing on their humanity or parts of it rather than simply abstract facts or skills.
I expect to see reports coming out showing that simulated intelligence can teach this or that better based on this or that metric, this isn't news. We have known for a long time that we can build things to hit metrics and that the purpose-built machine is often fragile in unexpected and critical ways. That is not a fragility that we want for our children.
To me, the most interesting thing about machine tutors is what we can learn about humans and human learning from the machine tutors failure modes but I worry that no one will be watching and catch the failures before they cascade into something truly nasty.
AI tutors will be held back by culture
To me, good teaching is always approximating the father to son(mother to daughter) or master to apprentice dynamic. It is about experienced humans passing on their humanity or parts of it rather than simply abstract facts or skills.
I expect to see reports coming out showing that simulated intelligence can teach this or that better based on this or that metric, this isn't news. We have known for a long time that we can build things to hit metrics and that the purpose-built machine is often fragile in unexpected and critical ways. That is not a fragility that we want for our children.
To me, the most interesting thing about machine tutors is what we can learn about humans and human learning from the machine tutors failure modes but I worry that no one will be watching and catch the failures before they cascade into something truly nasty.