Ask HN: Socratic LLM?

3 pointslahvak1y ago1 comments

Anybody tried to train a LLM, or seen a LLM that instead of providing "authoritative" answers to queries, would lead a user to a discovery through a series of questions and hints? Would such thing even be possible?

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exz1y ago

It's definitely possible. The founder of Khan Academy demonstrated something like this with GPT-4o: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvXZCocyU_M

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Ask HN: Socratic LLM?

3 pointslahvak1y ago1 comments

Anybody tried to train a LLM, or seen a LLM that instead of providing "authoritative" answers to queries, would lead a user to a discovery through a series of questions and hints? Would such thing even be possible?

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exz1y ago

It's definitely possible. The founder of Khan Academy demonstrated something like this with GPT-4o: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvXZCocyU_M

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse