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AlotOfReadingyesterday at 3:35 PM2 repliesview on HN

I don't know if you've ever been to India, but one of its characteristic features is that it has lots of local languages. LLMs are awful at almost all of them. Plus, there's 20ish% of the population that falls below the literacy threshold. It's hard to imagine how those people would be educated by LLMs even if that was a good idea and they all had reliable Internet access, which they often don't.


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general_revealyesterday at 4:02 PM

Why’s it hard to imagine? More training data will solve whatever language lapses it has. The next miracle is that TTS is perfect now, so they don’t need to be able to read.

You can convey abstract concepts as alternate abstractions, explain like I’m five but on turbosteroids. It’s the ultimate teaching tool and it’s about to be ubiquitous.

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blackoilyesterday at 5:55 PM

Your comment raises question, if you have ever been to India. Most of those 20% are old people. K-12 education need to be improved but literacy is not a major problem. Also India has cheapest internet in the world.