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

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  1. AngryData · · focus · HN ↗
    AI may be good for programming and basic facts, but many useful things are hidden behind many layers of slop that you might not know you need to wade through if you are ignorant on the actual topic. It will easily give you Topic 101 information and facts, it will start using Topic 201 material if you ask questions, it will use Topic 301 material mostly only when you use the 301 keywords to get the AI on that level. Beyond that, even if it has the information, good luck actually using it or finding it without already knowing about it and how to reference it. And 100-200 level topic information is just enough to make someone think they get it but then fuck shit up and not understand why.

    If you just hand off learning the lower level knowledge to AI, once people get to needing higher levels they will get lost.

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