Poll: What do you think about AI-based tools for children to do their homework/assignments?
Mayank K Sahu
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Preference for ease can negatively influence children.
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Asmita Gupta@asmita_gupta
Isolating kids from AI tools is perhaps not a good idea.
Would be interesting to see how they can use AI tools to further their learning and creativity.
The bad outcome here is that kids find it like a quick cheat for their assignments. The solve would be adapt the learning pedagogy to cope with it vs giving the same assignments/ tests and asking kids to do it without tech.
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I do think there is an important use case here leveraging AI to act like a virtual "tutor" for kids where they can leverage natural creativity to engage with the AI in conversation. Especially the ones whose families are not in the financial situation t afford private tutors or other programs outside of public schools. The tricky thing though is these LLM platforms are notorious for confidently lying and making mistakes, so we don't want a kid "learning" something that is wrong.
I think this would work best if the AI platforms/LLMs used in this area are trained on a specific subset of data that is known to be very accurate and the AI cannot go off the rails.