[paulsutter]

Nonsense

There will however be a gigantic gulf between kids who use AI to learn vs those who use AI to aid learning

Objective review of Alpha school in Austin:

https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/your-review-alpha-school

[blibble]

> There will however be a gigantic gulf between kids who use AI to learn vs those who use AI to aid learning

yeah, but not the way you are thinking

you think the rich are going to abolish a traditional education for their kids and dump them in front of a prompt text box for 8 years

that'll just be for the poor and (formerly) middle-class kids

[throwyawayyyy]

In the rosiest view, the rich give their children private tutors (and always have), and now the poor can give their children private tutors too, in the form of AIs. More realistically, what the poor get is something which looks superficially like a private tutor, yet instead of accelerating and deepening learning, it is one that allows the child to skip understanding entirely. Which, from a cynical point of view, suits the rich just fine...

[paulsutter]

I think what?

[UtopiaPunk]

What is the distinction between using "AI to learn" and using "AI to aid learning?"

[j45]

Imagine a tutor that stays with you as long as you need for every concept of math, instead of the class moving on without you and that compounding over years.

Rather than 1 teacher for 30 students, 1 teacher can scale to 30 students to better address Bloom's 2 sigma problem, which discovered students in a 1:2 ratio with a tutor full time ended up in the 98% of students reliably.

LLMs are capable of delivering this outright, or providing serious inroads to it for those capable and willing to do the work beyond going through the motions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom's_2_sigma_problem (1984)

[mholm]

This is absolutely not an objective review. The person who wrote this is a very particular type of person who Alpha School appeals strongly towards. I'm not saying anything in particular is wrong with the review, but calling it unbiased is incorrect.

[fn-mote]

Calling the Alpha school "AI" or even "AI to aid learning" is a massive stretch. I've read that article and nothing in there says AI to me. Data collection and on-demand computer-based instruction, sure.

I don't disagree with your premise, but I don't think that article backs it up at all.