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> Teachers don't make confident mistakes because the student asked the wrong way.
I don't see why the mechanism of being wrong matters. If anything it's worse when teachers are reliably wrong independently of how you ask the question.
> Teachers can be held accountable.
lol no. Have you ever tried correcting a teacher?
> Teachers can learn.
Good teachers can learn. The ones that make confident mistakes don't. Anyway no learning is needed for 4-9 year old education.
> Teachers can love their students.
That's just such a weird point to make. It is great that my kids' primary school teachers are super kind and loving. But it's not what they're for, and it's definitely not what AI tutors are for. Nobody is claiming this will replace a hug from a parent.
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> > Teachers can love their students.
> That's just such a weird point to make. It is great that my kids' primary school teachers are super kind and loving. But it's not what they're for, and it's definitely not what AI tutors are for. Nobody is claiming this will replace a hug from a parent.
This doesn't seem weird at all. Developmentally they need (kind, loving) human interaction. That's obviously not the only purpose of teachers, but if you think 7 hours a day without it wouldn't make a difference... just like a computer can't be held accountable, a computer can't have compassion.
> That's just such a weird point to make.
No, it's not. The claim that "teacher's make mistakes too" suggests that AI is equivalent to a human teacher in value. I posit other ways in which a human teacher is potentially more valuable.
Also, teachers who love their students tend to want to educate them well.
> lol no. Have you ever tried correcting a teacher?
Do you mean as a student? If so, that's a different dynamic. Because teachers certainly have accountability processes in many institutions.
> Anyway no learning is needed for 4-9 year old education.
Man, way to decide that the entire field of child pedagogy is just trash. I wonder what all of those people were researching all these years?
> Anyway no learning is needed for 4-9 year old education.
This is an extraordinarily naive statement. Learning how to teach well takes a lifelong commitment. A topic being basic for an adult does not mean it is easier to teach to a child. In many ways it makes it harder.