Re:Conversational AI is a great educational tool
by Nesco on Saturday November 25, 2023 @07:08PM
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I disagree here : there is a noticeable marginal cost to having additional human tutors. It’s quite different with chatbots.
Also I personally think you are under a misconception. Commoditised high quality AI tutors would increase variance/inequality of outcomes, not decrease it. As it would increase the learning rate of gifted individuals even more drastically than the one of the general population.
The more edtech improves and becomes cheaper, the more the limits of individuals will be set by their biological constraints. Which are mostly genetics
I'd change that to "the future will be wonderful for whoever is able to afford this technology." AI has the power to give some people a massive competitive advantage over others, and some people will be willing to spend a lot to keep that to themselves. It'll be democratized to an extent but you can be absolutely certain "AI tutors" will be a market, and people at lower incomes won't be able to afford the best ones (which is fine, it's just like human tutors. That's capitalism.).