Tag: apprenticeship
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Tutoring through large language models doesn’t need to be perfect
We know the gold standard for learning is one-to-one tutoring, where a more experienced expert providing focused guidance to a novice. This kind of apprenticeship model worked well for thousands of years, but doesn’t scale to meet the requirements of modern institutions. However, large language models and generative AI can provide reasonably high-level expertise in…
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Comment: How do we learn to work with intelligent machines?
I discussed something related to this earlier this year (the algorithmic de-skilling of clinicians) and thought that this short presentation added something extra. It’s not just that AI and machine learning have the potential to create scenarios in which qualified clinical experts become de-skilled over time; they will also impact on our ability to teach…