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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] 5 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Unfortunately, I don't think we're close to getting an AI music tutor. From a practical standpoint, a large language model can't interpret music.

From an ethos standpoint, allowing AI to train a musician breaks my heart.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

I could see a world where an AI teaches the mechanics of music, but is not relied on for evaluation of the students imagination in applying the mechanics.

When I was in art classes I wanted the class to teach me the techniques I did not know, but I was usually disappointed.

Like my life drawing classes would be me drawing images, and then getting judged on /what I already knew how to do/.

What I felt I would have benefited from was more along the lines of "here is three different shading techniques and how they can be used" or "here are three ways to use {oil | acrylic | water color} paints you've not used before."

I always had ideas of images to create, what I could have benefited from was intros to more tools and ways to use those tools.

I could see an AI being able to do that for students of the arts.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

That is a good - but different - point.

Though a large part of tutoring music is just "play that again" said in a way that the music is played again.