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MostlyStabletoday at 5:55 AM2 repliesview on HN

The fact that few students are self motivated enough to use it makes sense....but you are telling me that, in 4 years, _so_ few were motivated to use it that you can't report on whether or not it makes a difference for the minority that do?

I was among those who, when Khanmigo was first announced, were pretty excited about it's potential. I then waited for data on the results....and kept waiting.....and kept waiting. And now four years later this is apparently what we are going to get. I think that this is enough for me to decide that Khanmigo, regardless of whether or not a student actually engages with it, doesn't make much learning difference. At some point, the absence of (reported) data becomes data in itself.

I still believe, in principle, that AI tutors could be massively helpful for learning. But apparently we haven't yet figured out how to take that principle and turn it into reality.


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galaxyLogictoday at 6:59 AM

I think the AI can not understand the situation of the student so it does not know what the student does not know. Therefore it can not guide the student through the main hurdles of learning and understanding a topic. Whereas a human tutor was once a human-student, AI never was.

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christkvtoday at 6:10 AM

Family exceptions and support as well as the students self drive are the main indicators of a students academical improvement in my experience.