alt Hacker NewsYeah, that's weird. I've actually been working on an AI tutor for my kids that I'm thinking about open sourcing, but it drives the conversation in new directions using a concept graph that it can poll via tool use, and find the knowledge frontier for that learner.
It's been fascinating to watch - my kids are really into Slay the Spire, and it had a discussion about a decision tree they use when fighting one of the enemies, and then it used that to bridge to writing some python code and walking them through it. Another time, with dinosaurs, it went with them through the k-pg extinction event, and what really killed the dinosaurs - the kids thought the explosion - it walked them towards the sun dimming, and why food getting more scarce filtered for small mammals, our ancestors, and smaller dinosaurs.
on one hand I wish I would be smart enough to build something like that.
on the other hand, I was playing a lot Slay the Spire few years back and I would love to talk about with my kids while they play. Going from that it is not job of the parent to explain why dinosaurs are extinct?