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UtopiaPunktoday at 2:27 PM1 replyview on HN

What is the distinction between using "AI to learn" and using "AI to aid learning?"


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j45today at 2:38 PM

Imagine a tutor that stays with you as long as you need for every concept of math, instead of the class moving on without you and that compounding over years.

Rather than 1 teacher for 30 students, 1 teacher can scale to 30 students to better address Bloom's 2 sigma problem, which discovered students in a 1:2 ratio with a tutor full time ended up in the 98% of students reliably.

LLMs are capable of delivering this outright, or providing serious inroads to it for those capable and willing to do the work beyond going through the motions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom's_2_sigma_problem (1984)

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