alt Hacker NewsHeaven forbid we let poor people use software that helps their kids read.
If they can't afford a tutor, they deserve nothing.
(Am I doing this right?)
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byzantinegene • today at 7:56 AM
there's a big universe of solutions between getting nothing versus getting an AI 'educational' software that could do more harm than good.
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4ndrewl • today at 11:47 AM
Won't somebody think of the poor people's kids?!
Seriously though, it's great they're going to donate all this compute & tokens to the poor (who by definition can't afford to pay for it).
bluefirebrand • today at 3:10 AM
We could encourage parents to take an active role in tutoring their kids but I guess that's just entirely out of the question?
Nah. Let's have AI do it
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Your reaction is based on 3 unproven assertions:
* An AI tutor is a net positive in learning for the subject matter it covers.
* An AI tutor does not cause other harms.
* An AI tutor is going to be cheap enough that someone who cannot afford a human tutor will still be able to afford an AI tutor.
I'm mostly willing to give the benefit of the doubt on the first point, but the third point seems unlikely, and history has given us no shortage of reasons to distrust tech companies on the second point, even if we assume this company can be trusted now.