Tag: tutor
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AI tutors are getting very good
I know the idea of AI replicating some parts of the function of a tutor isn’t that comfortable, and there are whole rafts of the more human aspects, such as emotional intelligence, that this work doesn’t go near. But also, we know many students value AI for learning. They value its availability, patience, and lack…
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An AI-supported health professions tutor (and a brief comparison with Claude)
https://hpe-bot.com/ Update: For more information about the additional functionality of this bot, see this LinkedIn post by Lambert Schuwirth. The interface is a bit basic, and I haven’t played around with it much, but it seems to do a decent job with the kinds of questions I asked. Also, the premium account seems to offer…
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I tell my students to use language models to replace me
in AII know there’s a lot of concern about the potential issue of using LLMs like ChatGPT and Claude to write essays. And it’s true that there’s a risk they can be used for this. But I worry that we’re placing too much emphasis on a risk that I think largely misses the point, which is…
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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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Example of a tutorial session with ChatGPT as the tutor
I wanted to do a little experiment using ChatGPT as a tutor, after coming across a project for building a personal AI tutor (see my last weekly digest). I’ve posted the transcript of the exchange below. A few points of interest I thought worth noting: When reading through the exchange below, remember that ChatGPT only…