Re:Building a real-time AI tutor for 5-year-olds
by NegativeLatency on Thursday July 09, 2026 @11:23PM
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Also encouraged a guy to kill himself.
Re:Building a real-time AI tutor for 5-year-olds
by dofm on Friday July 10, 2026 @05:28AM
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And let’s not forget it provided helpful, timely tips on weapon use for a school shooter.
Re:Building a real-time AI tutor for 5-year-olds
by forgetfreeman on Thursday July 09, 2026 @11:53PM
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Probably when it stops agreeing with me when I tell it that industrial quantities of garlic salt are an acceptable substitution for coco powder in a chocolate mousse recipe...
Re:Building a real-time AI tutor for 5-year-olds
by jatins on Friday July 10, 2026 @02:31AM
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Why are you telling it that?
No one is arguing LLMs are perfect but at this point dismissing them as stochastic parrots seems a bit silly
Re:Building a real-time AI tutor for 5-year-olds
by SiempreViernes on Friday July 10, 2026 @04:58AM
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This particular use case is having it respond to prompts from 5-year old, so it really really needs to be able to answer correctly to questions of that type.
Re:Building a real-time AI tutor for 5-year-olds
by forgetfreeman on Friday July 10, 2026 @09:11AM
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It's not silly, it's just the most convenient and broadly relatable failure mode. I mean, I could compile a 20 bullet point copypasta detailing everything from prompt injection to exfiltration of sensitive data as-a-feature but if touts are willing to stoop to ignoring all of that while arguing obvious reductio ad absurdum at face value there appears to be little point at tilting that windmill. The Bullshit Asymmetry Principle is definitely winning here.
Re:Building a real-time AI tutor for 5-year-olds
by Marha01 on Friday July 10, 2026 @09:48AM
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Which model are you using? I don't think any recent state-of-the-art model does this.
Re:Building a real-time AI tutor for 5-year-olds
by senordevnyc on Friday July 10, 2026 @01:02PM
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This sounds like people who used to complain that they saw a website with bad info so obviously the internet should be avoided.
It won IMO, solved Erdos problems. At what point will you stop saying that?