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Re:OpenAI is Using Reddit to Teach An Artificial Intelligenc... by swalsh on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @11:18AM (#12685171)
How good is it? Can it talk to me, learn what I know, and more importantly learn what I DON'T know? Can it use that information to help me learn various things?

Online lectures are great, but a personalized tutor could change things. If I restate back my understanding of a subject, and it clearly tells me why I'm mistaken, that's useful.

Reddit does this, kind of, today... but it's not really from an informed position. It's mostly uninformed people arguing with equally uninformed people. There are gems occasionally, but it's rare. That's why /r/depthhub was created

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Re:OpenAI is Using Reddit to Teach An Artificial Intelligenc... by otakucode on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @12:02PM (#12685644)
If a bot could talk to me, and read Wikipedia, and figure out how to get me from the place I am in understanding a topic to where the Wikipedia explanation is, that would be crazy amazing. I don't even know if this would be particularly intractable at this point... the figuring out where I am currently at in understanding would probably be the difficult part.
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Re:OpenAI is Using Reddit to Teach An Artificial Intelligenc... by TY on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @11:34AM (#12685333)
It can learn from you and from other people, plus it has a vast internal knowledge base so it will know something that you don't know.

While it can answer your questions and check your understanding (it's a First Order Logic application), I haven't thought of the educational applications but I don't see why not... Thank you for bringing this up.

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