Stephen Downes

Knowledge, Learning, Community

I wrote a thing a while back that because Contact North's Your AI Tutor Gets You (still love that title) and so you could say I agree with the idea of personal AI tutors. But this article's Portable, Evidence-Based, Adaptive Representation of a Learner (PEARL) misses the mark on so many levels (I guess it would say that it's just cringe). The authors' point is that "LLMs are highly capable of changing their tone and style in response to what they know about the asker. So what can we do with that?" But pretty much nobody wants that. And you can't just define the approach that does work with just a few simple rules, as represented here. We can all tell when corporations are trying too hard to be rizz and it just doesn't work.

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