a cool aspect of using LLMs as a tutor is you can test your understanding of a topic, and in the process of validating your understanding, the LLM will also trigger aspects you haven’t thought of yet. So it ends up acting kind of like a rabbit hole, except you end up a lot closer to where you started, just with a much deeper understanding
this brought on by a dive into PCA and eigenvalues. i was reading a paper and realized i didn’t adequately understand the topics, so i spun up my AI tutor and worked through it.
it used to be the answer was to go buy a 600 page book, not actually read it, become depressed and ashamed for not actually reading it, and then move on without learning anything
positive: yay! we don’t have to work, AI will do it
negative: AI will take our jobs
but the reality is AI (LLMs anyway) is best used to make yourself into a bionic super being. okay, that’s a bit extra, but being able to learn new things in 10 minutes feels a lot like the matrix scene, “i know kung fu” https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6vMO3XmNXe4
from a more psychological perspective, it meets me right where i am. it caters to my learning style, and spends time filling in exactly the gaps that i have. so it’s the same learning process as traditional, just without the waste
@kellogh learning with LLM is one of those leaps in education only last seen when Wikipedia first came into the picture.
With some supervision, we could leave day to day personalized learning to an LLM and let humans teach far more important topics like critical thinking and problem solving.
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