My daughter is an online public teacher starts class at 8:30 and finishes on screen with student by noon. So I realize that without PE, music or other specials but public school begin and end much earlier and later. She is not a liberal teacher either.

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Stmichael said:

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LLM's to this day haven't yet demonstrated the ability to get basic true statements right 100% of the time. They will confidently tell you wrong information as if it were truth, .

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So essentially public school teachers

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This joke could be seen coming from over the horizon.

But just to expand a bit, LLM's don't "think" the way a human brain does. It has a very complicated series of statistical relationships between small chunks of words called tokens. When you ask it a question, it formulates a sentence that is statistically most likely to fulfill your request. But there's no checks against known facts.

The best real life example I can think of to illustrate this was some idiot lawyer who thought it would be a great idea to have chatgpt write his legal brief. When the judge asked for more information on the case this lawyer cited as legal precedent to support his case, the lawyer couldn't find any trace of it. Chatgpt made the whole thing up to just sound like a real court case with the exact precedent he needed.

That's why LLM'S aren't worth even half the hype they get.

So far the computer as a teaching tool is a bust. It has had mostly negative consequences including lower reading ability at all ages.

Big claims,

Gen Z is lower at all measurable stats and tech is to blame. And can be tracked by US state by adoption date in the state.

It sounds like Alpha School has potential. Using AI to teach students language, math, science and other key subjects like history in just 2 hours and devoting the rest of the day to "life skill workshops," seems promising, despite some obvious concerns.

If they're only doing 2 hours/day of instruction, who is going to cover the other 5 hours/day of school which is effectively child care?