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Tutoring company tells parents to save their money and 'use AI instead'

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  1. glitchc · · focus · HN ↗
    A calculator, Youtube and iPad tried to replace teachers. They all failed but this time it's different.
    1. piltdownman · · focus · HN ↗
      A calculator is a tool that replaced the slide-rule or Abacus - no one contended the Abacus replaced teaching or teachers. Ditto an iPad which is effectively just a fancy calculator in this context.

      Similarly Youtube didn't replace teachers - it afforded remote learning and correspondence courses a new medium for transmission, recording, and playback of teaching.

      More to the point none of those were trained on a corpus containing the history of human pedagogy, were capable of inference, or of generating dynamic learning resources based on best-practice models with inherent self-correction and pedagogical reinforcement mechanisms.

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