Disagree. AI has no business being used in 1:1 tutor mode before the hallucination and sycophancy issues are completely resolved. As is, I can easily see it being a hindrance to building actual understanding.

Just one example - it's very common to see ChatGPT and the like respond with "you're absolutely correct! Great insight" to something that is a complete misunderstanding.

Tutor mode sucks because even if it was actually accurate and didn't hallucinate, it isn't scoped to what the class is actually covering within a given topic.

Best AI is still your own brain, trained on paying attention in class and reading the assigned content.

> AI in 1:1 tutor mode with proper hardware, harness and guardrails should be wildly successful

I’m open to the idea! Show me the evidence. Then we can roll it out to our kids.

fwiw, Alpha School is the supervised version. the New York campus is $65k/yr and not legally a school.

private school money with homeschool paperwork and an app doing the teaching.

https://www.wired.com/story/alpha-schools-new-york-city-camp...

We thought the same of electronic devices in general and digital learning content specifically. In actual practice both result in lowered test scores and declining critical thinking skills.

I think AI should be used in higher level schools but with the added requirement that the output will be held to a much higher standard and that it's fact checked. Teach the students to use AI to reach a higher level while mitigating the inherent issues like hallucination and sycophancy.

Idk why you screeching AI touts are so confident about its ‘wild’ success in all areas given absolutely zero evidence to that effect.

It’s tiresome.