Even in a future where human testing/learning is no longer relevant, AIs may be tutoring and raising other baby AIs, preparing them to join the community.
Edit: This just appeared: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35155684
“Oxford's core teaching is based around conversations, normally between two or three students and their tutor, who is an expert on that topic. We call these tutorials, and it's your chance to talk in-depth about your subject and to receive individual feedback on your work.”
[0] https://www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/undergraduate/student-life/e...
If AI can achieve this (and honestly I do not think GPT-4 is far off, at least for primary and middle school level stuff) it will be a far bigger win for education than the internet was.
I'm surprised you find this inspiring. I personally will stick with shuddering.
I get we're thinking "higher level" here, like oh cool one day AI will replace radiologists (handwave over how we get the patient to sit on the table for an xray and roll this way and that, and whatever else), but there's far more, to me, "interesting" problems to be solved in this nitty gritty area, and I think the effects here will be more actual in people's lives - that is to say, I think more likely to actually improve material conditions.
Is there a way to leverage AI in this state, to wrench the bureaucratic nightmare that is the American education system, into a position where it doesn't do things like lump together highly special needs kids with more "normal" kids? To somehow leverage congress and local governments into directing more resources to deathly underfunded school districts?
Personalized learning is highly effective. I think your idea is an exciting one indeed.
I doubt the 2 Sigma effect applies to ""AI"".
The panic about this new tech is from how people that leveraged their intelligence now need to look at and understand the other side of the distribution.
I’m really questioning what to do about this professionally, because it is obvious this technology will radically reshape my job, but it is unclear how.
Are you more effective at finding such new keywords/concepts/ideas with ChatGPT's help than without, or is it just that style of learning or its novelty that you prefer?
Sorry for the derail, but this does not exist and yet this is the second time today I’ve seen it used as a benchmark for what is possible. Would you care to say more?
> AIs may be tutoring and raising other baby AIs, preparing them to join the community.
Probably I'm not futurist enough, but I'm always amazed at how chill everyone is with supplanting humanity with AIs. Because there doesn't seem to be a place for humans in the future, except maybe in zoos for the AI.
Now if there is just a slow race to AGI then things are going to be very politically messy and violent ( even much more so than now ) in the next decade.
I think this will totally change the way we educate and test. As someone for whom the education system really didn't serve well, I am very excited.
One major problem with LLMs is that they don’t have a long term way of figuring out what your “knowledge space” is so no matter how much good the LLM is at explaining, it won’t be able to give you custom explanations without a model of the human’s knowledge to guide the teaching (basically giving the LLM the knowledge of the learner to guide it)
Things are moving very fast
In essence, this tool will eventually allow us to scale things like private tutors and make educators more productive and effective.
We already have really convincing text-to-speech and really good speech recognition. It won't be long before we pair this with robotics and have lifelike tutors for people that want to learn. Kids of the near future are going to be so advanced at scale compared to any previous generation. A curious mind needed to have smart adults around them willing to get them resources and time. Soon anyone with curiosity will have access.
The Primer’s in sight.
