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Re:Everyone is capable of, and can benefit from, mathematica... by khafra on Thursday November 21, 2024 @03:16AM (#42202194)
> If it's easy, then it means you already know this material, and you're wasting your time.

One thing I'm anticipating from LLM-based tutoring is an adaptive test that locates someone's frontier of knowledge, and plots an efficient route toward any capability goal through the required intermediate skills.

Trying to find the places where math starts getting difficult by skimming through textbooks takes too long; especially for those of us who were last in school decades ago.

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Re:Everyone is capable of, and can benefit from, mathematica... by llm_trw on Thursday November 21, 2024 @08:19AM (#42204054)
>and plots an efficient route toward any capability goal through the required intermediate skills.

LLMs currently can't find efficient paths longer than 5 hops when given a simple itinerary. Expecting them to do anything but a tactical explanation of issues they have seen in training is extremely naive with something as high dimensional as math.

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Re:Everyone is capable of, and can benefit from, mathematica... by sn9 on Saturday November 23, 2024 @04:30PM (#42224086)
LLMs hallucinate and are completely the wrong tool for this. People need to learn about the history of AI.

Expert-systems using techniques from the 80s are doing this right now [0].

[0] https://www.mathacademy.com/how-our-ai-works

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