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

142 points · 233 comments · theanonymousone

  1. radiorental · · focus · HN ↗
    This isn't binary, teachers have limited bandwidth and supplementing real teaching with AI supported research can work.

    Students need to understand what AI is and is not.

    Something got lost as we transitioned from parents telling their kids to 'go play and do not come back until dinner is ready' to us handholding & driving our kids from one social/sport activity to the next.

    While it causes fights with my kids, I blank refuse to do certain things for them (fix their internet connection, repair a toy or bike) I'll give them the tools and they know to ask when they get stuck.

    The act of learning through failure is a dying art these days. It's 'teach to the test', stressed out teachers, parents having too much to do compounded by taking on second, third jobs in this economy.

    Teaching our kids how to leverage AI is something parents should invest in. Its part of a broader education landscape.

    1. 113 · · focus · HN ↗
      > teachers have limited bandwidth

      Hire more?

      1. unified101 · · focus · HN ↗
        For how much money? Subscribing people is 200 dollars a day. Codexr is 20 dollars a month
        1. ninalanyon · · focus · HN ↗
          If they are going to be put out of work by AI then they will be cheap to hire.
          1. unified101 · · focus · HN ↗
            If you were unemployeed, what's the minimum rate per day that you'd be willing to work for?
            1. ninalanyon · · focus · HN ↗
              That would depend on which country I was in. Where I live it would probably be at least 20 USD per hour. But I live in a country (Norway) where unemployment benefits and protections against becoming unemployed in the first place are strong.
              1. unified101 · · focus · HN ↗
                Yeah, hard to compete with 20 dollars a month, was my point.
          2. Sohcahtoa82 · · focus · HN ↗
            That sentence is incredibly dystopian.
            1. ninalanyon · · focus · HN ↗
              That was my point. The idea of replacing teachers with AI is itself dystopian and and I'm quite sure rife with unintended consequences.
              1. unified101 · · focus · HN ↗
                "idea" is dystopian. Look at the world around you. Like the OP news article.
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