So, I'm going to re-iterate, my issue here is that AI tutors shouldn't be trusted, because there is no qualifier that the information provided by the model is correct. It's way to easy to generate incorrect information, but we're seeing more and more evidence of people implicitly trusting AI when they ask questions, search for information, and providing summaries. It's a shortcut that is skipping the struggle that's required to properly consume information.
I loved a post I saw on Bluesky positioning this in Excel. If you have a formula in an Excel spreadsheet that is wrong 15% of the time, but you don't know which one.. why would you use that?
In regards to learning, I think about this quote from Richard Wagamese's book of meditations: Embers.
Quote:
ME: You always repeat things three times.
OLD WOMAN: Just the important things.
ME: Why? I hear you the first time.
OLD WOMAN: No. You listen the first time. You hear the second time. And you feel the third time.
ME: I don’t get it.
OLD WOMAN: When you listen, you become aware. That’s for your head. When you hear, you awaken. That’s for your heart. When you feel, it becomes a part of you. That’s for your spirit. Three times. It’s so you learn to listen with your whole being. That’s how you learn.
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