Khan Academy integrates GPT-4 as every student’s customized tutor

Just to be clear: it&#x27;s not for <i>every</i> student (at least not yet!). We are in a research phase sharing it with a limited subset of users. More details about our approach to the responsible development of AI: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.khanacademy.org&#x2F;aiguidelines&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.khanacademy.org&#x2F;aiguidelines&#x2F;</a>

Am I the only one somewhat alarmed that we are choosing to rely on AIs that are vulnerable to hallucinations so much?<p>Personally I rather have a more limited but reliable tool than a more powerful but unreliable one.

I wonder if this kind of intelligent tutoring could be the answer to Bloom&#x27;s Two Sigma Problem. The limiting factor with that problem was that not everyone can afford a personal tutor. Having an AI tutor that can breeze through the SAT seems like it should give every student a major boost.

GPT-4 definitely seems to be doing better on a lot of benchmarks and that&#x27;s impressive. But it still hallucinates facts and I don&#x27;t think anyone really has a good understanding of when and how that happens. Given that, is it really a good idea to be positioning this model as some kind of factual authority figure?

I&#x27;ve tutored people at times. A good tutor needs to understand the subject very well, so they can not only understand the right answer but also figure out why the student is coming to the wrong answer.<p>I personally think that assigning GPT as a &quot;tutor&quot; is devaluing the real skill involved in tutoring and I doubt it will work out.

Highly recommend the Neal Stephenson book <i>The Diamond Age: Or, A Young Lady&#x27;s Illustrated Primer</i>, for an interesting exploration of a custom AI tutor for each student.<p>In that book, students have a &quot;magic book&quot; that teaches them lessons in a story form while encouraging certain life paths. It&#x27;s pretty fascinating to consider the implications and whether that&#x27;s something we&#x27;ll want, bc it may soon be possible.

I’m sitting on the couch with my new grandson. He’s six months old. What is school going to look like for him over the course of his education? Should be interesting.

Reminds me of that science fiction story by Ray Bradbury called the veldt... Computers raise the kids

The cynic in me wonders if &quot;AI&quot; has realized that the most efficient way to take over the world is to teach the next generation to be dependent on it for learning.

So untested and using kids as guinea pigs again. Well done. Keep it up. Just a never ending mindless need to make big claims constantly.

StackOverflow.com banned Chat-GPT answers 3 months ago and their traffic is down.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;techcabal.com&#x2F;2023&#x2F;01&#x2F;31&#x2F;stack-overflow-chat-gpt&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;techcabal.com&#x2F;2023&#x2F;01&#x2F;31&#x2F;stack-overflow-chat-gpt&#x2F;</a><p>But on the plus side, this news means there will be fewer do-my-homework-for-me questions.

A lot of what GPT-4 can return is ideas based on assumptions and beliefs. Who chooses what of these to train the system? Those subtle ideas will then lead students who are mostly children.

This reminds me of CGP Grey’s “Digital Aristotle”, which actually references both Khan Academy and A Young Lady&#x27;s Illustrated Primer<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;7vsCAM17O-M" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;7vsCAM17O-M</a>

I wonder if the students can direct the AI to give them questions similar to what would show up in the tests. Do the teachers use the same AI as the students?

Would love to see &quot;Ender&#x27;s game&quot; type AI which can train the students with custom questions and answers.

&gt; &quot;It&#x27;s important that you learn how to do this yourself!&quot;<p>I find this response by the AI tutor to be unbearably ironic - if there&#x27;s an AI that could do it better than me, and well enough to teach me, then it seems quite unimportant that I learn to do it myself. While of course I see a benefit to some people learning mathematics from scratch, for advanced research and continuity purposes, at this point I think that saying that it&#x27;s important for &quot;everyone&quot; to learn math (at least beyond the very basics) is almost equivalent to saying that it&#x27;s important that everyone learn how to grow grain, weave fabric and mix cement.

Can Khan Academy replace school at this point? If not, what are they missing?

Given ChatGPT’s ideological bias, is it wise to promote it to children?

let&#x27;s just hope a student doesn&#x27;t ask an arithmetic problem!

Its not there yet. Im testing out a teaching assistant and it doesn&#x27;t catch wrong answers (eg question was whats 2 + 4, answer given was 4). I think its good for explaining concepts but not yet structuring the lesson or basic reasoning (this is 1st grade)

Just when many education systems are struggling, this comes up. It&#x27;s gonna be interesting to see if it helps self organizing and self learning (removing the negative side effects of group learning in school settings) or if it will just add noise and chaos.

How do you monitor for ai correctness on these topics?<p>For gpt-3, that&#x27;s been the user, but a student roughly has to take the ai at face value.<p>Some secondary ai double checking the output? What&#x27;s the loop like for saying oops to the student?

Commented just prior: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=35155529" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=35155529</a><p>The responses are interesting.

This is why it doesn&#x27;t matter if AI lets students cheat on essays: Essays will soon be obsolete — not just for students, but for everyone.<p>The two main purposes of an essay are to teach others about something in your head, and to develop and refine such ideas in the first place.<p>Very soon, it&#x27;ll be much faster, easier, and more prolific to spread an idea by conversing with an AI about it and letting it go off and talk to others about it. If some of those people have interesting feedback, questions, or find a flaw, the AI can distill it all down to a time-efficient debriefing it can come back to you with. And an advanced AI makes for a great partner to bounce new ideas off and chew them over with.

At this point I won&#x27;t be surprised if over the next few weeks and months hacker news is going to be full {insert org here} integrates GPT-4.

What is the point of teaching children these topics, when they&#x27;ll be obsolete by the time they&#x27;re old enough to enter the job market?

Finally, we have hit on how to teach AIs patience.

What kind of prompt(s) would yield these results?

Given that learning will probably soon not be required anymore to live a successful life (AIs will do everything better than you), I guess such learning-as-a-hobby apps will be the remaining niche to entertain the humans on basic income.<p>I wonder how many people will actually make use of it, though, and how many are instead content with being wireheaded by the various AI-based content apps that will appear, full with virtual partners (see Replika etc.).

TeachGPT when?<p>This seems like a no-brainer next step for OpenAI, to derive an AI instructor from GPT-4 without a partner like Khan Academy. I suppose that may require a &quot;truer&quot; multimodality of ChatGPT being able to generate images or visual patterns. Imagine being able to onboard new employees via such an agent or learning about complex subjects.

This is extremely powerful. I wish this existed when I was a kid.

Why do these tech giants receive GPT-4 access much earlier than regular seed startups? Is it fair?!

can&#x27;t wait for a GPT4 history teacher talking about darwin.