Parents Fell in Love with Alpha School's Promise. Then They Wanted Out
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The article explores the experience of parents whose children used Alpha School, an AI-powered educational platform, and later expressed concerns about its effectiveness; the discussion revolves around the potential benefits and drawbacks of AI-driven education.
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In the meantime software is hard too, it shouldn't be, but as far as humans producing it and the right people having input, it's really hard. Most of the education software I interface with or see that my kids use is barely "ok" and at times absolutely garbage.
Education and software... what a mess.
Unbound Academy hasn’t replaced teachers with AI
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45443004
That’s a hard task for a VLM. I’m not sure how you would do that without manual review of the footage.
“Anti pattern”. “Guides”. I want to be sick.
It’s worth listening to the tech billionaire came up with this idea on the recent Peter attia podcast. An unbelievably smooth and convincing talker.