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Re:One AI Tutor Per Child: Personalized learning is finally ... by iamwpj on Friday March 17, 2023 @12:08PM (#35198971)
Humans can know nearly everything that any other human knows (hence...teaching). AI can't know anything (right now). The youth who are critical of capitalism certainly have turned a wary eye on the school system -- after all primary education has been designed to create money makers for corporations. Is a new tool the answer? Likely not. Will it help to change the philosophy of education? Maybe not independent of the change that is already occurring.
Re:One AI Tutor Per Child: Personalized learning is finally ... by ben_w on Friday March 17, 2023 @01:05PM (#35199841)
> AI can't know anything (right now).

Only for very specific (and IMO useless) definitions of the word "know". Does it matter if the thing a submarine does is called "swimming" or not?

In any practical sense, even obsolete ancestors of this model definitely "know" more French than I learned in 5 years of mandatory school lessons.

That said, regardless of the definition of the word "know"…

> The youth who are critical of capitalism certainly have turned a wary eye on the school system -- after all primary education has been designed to create money makers for corporations.

I don't know what you're talking about here.

The soviet bloc countries were very proud of their schooling system, rightly or wrongly; and conversely corporations don't really get much out of primary education, which is often described as being essentially no better than daycare for slightly older kids.