How AI Could Save (Not Destroy) Education | Sal Khan | TED

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xnx · 2025-07 · Recommendation

> GenAI is a threat to student learning and wellbeing. This blanket dismissal is not going to age well, and reads like a profession lashing out. With the right system prompt, AI can be a patient, understanding, encouraging, non-judgemental tutor that adapts and moves at the student's pace. Most students can not afford that type of human tutor, but an AI one could be free or very affordable. "How AI Could Save (Not Destroy) Education" ( [VIDEO] ) from Sal Khan of Khan Academy

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verdverm · 2024-07 · Recommendation

You are just giving them ChatGPT with a bit of prompt engineering, and evaluating them on math problems, which we know LLMs make errors on because they are not calculators. You aren't putting in the effort needed to build a real tutor and learning assistant. I would not extrapolate from these results There are also a lot of things that can come in before you build a full on tutor. One example is being able to tailor word problems (transform the nouns) to subjects interesting to the particular student. They could also be used to help understand where students are struggling. We are still at the early phases of useful AI, optimism is more appreciated, especially as contemporary times have become so pessimistic Sal Khan provides a more optimistic take and demo: [VIDEO]

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verdverm · 2024-07 · Recommendation

Sal Khan gave a good Ted Talk on his thoughts around AI in Education. Some pretty cool demos in there showing what a tutor could be like and other opportunities [VIDEO] How AI Could Save (Not Destroy) Education | Sal Khan --- edit: Khanmigo has its own site now [LINK]

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