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Randomized, controlled trial of students using GPT-4 as tutor in Nigeria. 6 weeks of after-school AI tutoring = 2 years of typical learning gains, outperforming 80% of other educational interventions. (blogs.worldbank.org)

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)

In the real world, it depends on if humans are available to do the tutoring. Even if human tutors are better than AI, AI is better than no tutor.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

Personally, I don't think the evidence has established an AI tutor is better than no tutor. Maybe for English, certainly not for Math, Science, History, Art, or any other subjects.

LLMs can be wrong - so can teachers, but I'd bet dollars to donuts the LLM is wrong more often.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

This is true. I was just thinking in the case of the study, but /any/ help when needed is better than no help.