I think learning is actually a very underrated application for LLMs; they can be extremely useful for that. However, it’s difficult to get right and requires an active effort and discipline from the learner, even in purpose-built harnesses. I don’t know if you can use LLMs to learn if you don’t already have the skills to self-teach effectively.
Additionally, I’d hesitate to let corporations shape developing minds more than they already do… Ideally, we should be reducing corporate influences on education, not integrating them deeper with direct 1:1 contact with students.
Judging you only by this response and you’re username…
If the shoe fits…
The irony is that Study Mode can ask a teenager to think, but it can’t teach them when to stop asking the machine. Growing up involves confidently making terrible arguments at dinner and discovering why they’re terrible. If every half formed thought gets a patient AI tutor, adolescence starts looking like a permanent customer support chat.
It will also position the AI as a wise mentor to millions of kids, which is terrible when you consider its owned by billionaire sociopaths. They will use this trust.
Maybe we just need to teach kids how to harvest their own massive data sets and train their own models. “Kids should learn to code” style.
/absurd
