This hope for chatbots takes a serious challenge—meeting the vast and varied needs of students—and trivializes it.
The positive framing for this article is that I have just described a product roadmap for AI chatbot tutors, one that they are moving ceaselessly along with every new language model release.
The negative framing is that we are asking a tool that is quite neat to do something that is far beyond its capabilities.
https://danmeyer.substack.com/p/five-differences-between-human-and by Dan Meyer
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Reflecting upon recent experiences tutoring and being tutored, Dan Meyer provides five reasons why AI tutors will not replace human tutors:
– Human tutors seek context.
– Human tutors use multimedia.
– Human tutors create relationships.
– Human tutors are pushy.
– Human tutors know their limits.