[HN Gopher] Sal Khan: The amazing AI super tutor for students an...
___________________________________________________________________
Sal Khan: The amazing AI super tutor for students and teachers
[video]
Author : bilsbie
Score : 30 points
Date : 2023-05-02 17:45 UTC (5 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.ted.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.ted.com)
| mcast wrote:
| I always wondered how an AI tutor could be "the great equalizer"
| for teaching kids from all socioeconomic backgrounds (and
| international students too). It's impossible for a classroom of
| 20-30 students to get 1:1 attention from a teacher.
| simmanian wrote:
| I have been trying to see if ChatGPT can successfully lay out a
| meticulous course plan and educational milestones. I am pretty
| happy with what I see. I can easily imagine kids diving really
| deep into topics that interest them with a tutor that can help
| them learn complicated, college-level material.
| mcast wrote:
| The possibilities are endless! Seeing Sal demonstrate how
| students could talk to old historical figures and ask them
| questions in their context was pretty fascinating.
| carapace wrote:
| Broadly speaking, the computers should do the work to free up
| humans to do the important things like parenting and teaching.
|
| Letting the machine babysit our kids so we can... what? Do work
| that a computer could do? Party all day? Why _are_ teachers so
| poorly paid?
| mlyle wrote:
| You know, maybe we can do both.
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom%27s_2_sigma_problem
|
| Individual tutoring plus mastery (which Khan already has)
| outperforms classrooms by 2 sigma. Coming up with ways that we
| can individualize education which we can _afford_ (since we 're
| not going to buy individual tutorial education for every child)
| would be huge.
|
| Next year, I'm helping a group of ELA teachers use GPT4 to
| provide each student with individualized writing feedback. We
| have a relatively low student to teacher ratio, but still we
| can only provide this kind of depth 3-4 times per year, and now
| we're going to get it a couple times more.
|
| And in the microeconomics class I taught, I enjoyed the
| efficiency and educational aspects of having about a quarter of
| my assignments be on Khan. Exercises are self-grading; students
| get immediate feedback; and if students need extra help, it's
| there... with Sal Khan explaining things _radically_ different
| from how I did.
|
| (I like my explanations better, but anyone who didn't click
| with things my way had a chance to try something different).
| russellbeattie wrote:
| We're just a few years away from Neil Stephenson's idea of a
| _Young Lady 's Illustrated Primer: a Propaedeutic Enchiridion_.
| rg111 wrote:
| When many jobs go away, students will see a ceiling. They will
| see no point in investing themselves to improve. Because they
| won't find jobs anyway.
|
| Whom will the AI teacher teach then?
| simmanian wrote:
| Maybe when all jobs get automated, people will actually look to
| solve their happiness problem.
| feoren wrote:
| Funny, because it seems to me that the happiest people are
| those who feel like they have found their purpose, their true
| calling, their vocation in life. Many people who currently
| feel like that, or are beginning to determine that, are going
| to see the rug pulled out from underneath them when AI can
| compose symphonies and voice-act and drive trucks and design
| airport baggage handling systems and plan cities 100x better
| than any human. We'll see a lot of happy people turn into
| miserable little shits pretty quickly.
|
| Meanwhile the rich will no longer have any need for the poor,
| and since 100% of your worth as a human being derives from
| what job you do in service of the rich, you'll become a
| worthless little fucking bug for them to exterminate.
|
| Don't get me wrong: I like your vision better.
| DANmode wrote:
| > Meanwhile the rich will no longer have any need for the
| poor, and since 100% of your worth as a human being derives
| from what job you do in service of the rich, you'll become
| a worthless little fucking bug for them to exterminate.
|
| This matches the data.
| rg111 wrote:
| Only a very small percentage of humans on earth will get this
| opportunity. Others (most- by number) will be wiped out or
| thrown out of their life so drastically, they will just want
| to survive.
|
| Life in the Upper West Side, NY, will not be the same as a
| Bangladesh lower middle class neghborhood.
|
| A lot of jobs providing people with middle class incomes will
| be wiped out. The middle class will drastically shrink. That
| is the scenario that is the most likely.
| rumdz wrote:
| There are people who enjoy learning for learning's sake.
| rg111 wrote:
| Yes.
|
| Even if my own job gets replaced, and I can no longer find
| employment, I will keep learning new Math, new programming
| languages, and other things. (Seems unlikely now, but
| definitely not impossible)
|
| But I have seen that people like me are rare.
|
| Most students learn with an earthly, material goal in mind.
| And you can't blame them.
___________________________________________________________________
(page generated 2023-05-02 23:03 UTC)