I'm sure this won't be a popular comment, but I can see how having a motivated learner in a 1:1 lesson with an AI might be better for that person than sitting in a class with 35 other people, most of whom don't want to be there, running through a syllabus that the teacher may not even like, at the pace of the slowest kid in class.
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Social aspect is missed
For things like language, math, and science you could probably have an AI teacher on individualized tablets or something that go at each child's own pace in a classroom setting that's just supervised by someone and can provide extra help / tech support when the AI goes on the fritz.
Then regular recess/lunch shenanigans and gym class, art, music, for the social aspect.
The AI could even be programmed to do team projects where you link your tablet with 4 others and they all help the group do a project
Eventually when AI advances and isn't complete dog shit, that is.
Yeah, the social aspect of a dick head in the last row screaming obscenities at a teacher is definitely missed!
"but first, chatgpt: please motivate me"
A good AI, sure, this could be plausible. Current ones get too much wrong.
The much bigger issue is we're talking about children, not adults. How many children would be motivated to self teach, every day, for years on end, even if you had an AI equal to a human tutor.
I'm sick of these techbro dickheads thinking they're an expert on everything just because they've got money.
Plus they basically have advanced degrees in enshittification
Well, the poor tend to be less educated and only care about immediate needs. So yeah, if you have money, you're probably more of an expert than a person without money.
And that just underlines my decision to quit Duolingo when it got contaminated with AI stop.
I can tell you from experience that AI was worse at teaching me a language than humans were.
you know, I still say punching people who say stupid stuff, would cut down the stupid stuff people say, by at least half...
So many rich psychopaths in capitalist societies.
The system is designed to make psychopaths successful and powerful.
and as such the system is beneficial to minorities (specific ones, not all).
I learn better with humans...this is billionaire excrement
Worst part is even after this idiot destroys his own company, he can just claim he was responsible for the highest ever peak stock share price (before he caused the decline).
I'm so close to letting my streak die because of this dude. Fuck him.
My library (and check yours, too!) has free access to Mango Languages, and what I have tried there has been nice. But they don't guilt trip you into doing lessons so you have to keep on top of it yourself.
I ended my streak and uninstalled a while ago. It went downhill when they got rid of the discussion section for the exercises. Add to that stupid sentences I most likely wouldn't say in the real world .
I loved the conversation section 😭
I liked the short stories, but they messed that up, too.
Why wouldn't you talk about a bear wearing its dresses?
Yes, the bear is wearing multiple dresses.
Mango Languages doesn't have Esperanto.
I've paid for the year, so I'll do my damnedest to run up their gippity bill.
What a cunt
I absolutely cannot wait for kids to learn about “vegetative electron microscopy”
AI absolutely cannot replace teachers.
Augment possibly but replace? No.
By augment I mean provide some help at the direction of the teacher.
https://retractionwatch.com/2025/02/10/vegetative-electron-microscopy-fingerprint-paper-mill/
So he's an ass.
Yeah, they already said "CEO".
Chief Enshittification Office
When someone has a vested interest in the answer to a given question they are no longer a reliable source. We collectively need to stop giving a shit about celebrities and capitalists opinions.
ai can teach, and cheaper than humans, but I doubt its better than most of us
That's pretty hilarious considering I've been using Duolingo (cracked apks) for years and these last couple of weeks the sentences it's been giving me are insane and weird, stupidly awkward things that no one would ever say IRL.
Airlearn isn't quite there as far as speech recognition but the lessons are a lot more natural and it actually tells you why and explains different parts of the culture around the language and why an idea might be expressed a certain way rather than how we're used to in English. An LLM could never.
Worse than they used to be?
By a long shot. The sentences have been absolutely unhinged the last couple of weeks, and full of words I haven't learned on top of that.
shut up dude your AI can't even conjugate italian are verbs properly
Current LLMs aren't better teachers.
They might be in the future. But definitely not now.
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Puts his children in private school without computers.
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