Google DeepMind has been testing AI tutorbots in English classrooms and suggesting they help teachers outperform "human-only" teachers. So now big commercial tech companies are modifying schools into live testing sites for their marketable products. >> www.businesswire.com/news/home/20...

The schools sector is about to be divided into those running Microsoft/Khan/OpenAI tutorbots vs Google Gemini tutorbots in a huge experiment and competition in AI in the classroom www.zdnet.com/article/micr...

Should tag this piece on the end of the thread too. Education Next gave me 2000 words to express my skepticism on tutorbots, but I could've gone on at ten times that length. That skepticism is rooted in distrust of what the bots have to teach us. www.educationnext.org/ai-tutors-hy...

Right on!

So, we can’t just have tutorbots and education is saved!

AI tutorbots are simplified, synthetic models of the very complex, situated work of pedagogy. We shouldn’t expect too much from these "oblong teachers". New post on "oblongification of education" codeactsineducation.wordpress.com/2024/05/24/o...

Example 3: YouTube videos are amazing teachers, imagine adding AI tutorbots to that and scraping students' faces for signals of attention! Sal Khan almost said that

Lesson: Entrepreneurs care little for evidence or ethics - only their fantasies of superior automation www.nytimes.com/2024/01/11/t...

I should note that students as cogs in a system is the dominant frame for how education is viewed in this country which is why there's so much enthusiasm for tutorbots in certain corners.

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Vergesst Escape Rooms, Tutorbots, Future Skills, denn ich habe die wirklich ultimative Idee zur Rettung der höheren Bildung: die Ganztagshochschule! Chatti schlägt als Übersetzung in Managementsprech vor: "Structured Academic Eng… (Link im ersten Kommentar)
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TUTORBOTS PROGRAMMED TK MAKE PURCHASES THAT WILL HELP WITH MY EDUCATION AND STRENGTHEM MY BRAIN!!!!

If OpenAI succeeds in creating good tutorbots, we’ll need to figure out how to preserve social learning.

Once this multibillion word-generating, info-polluting "AI" really gets going in edtech - and they're plugging it in at pace as tutorbots and lesson planners - then probably an already iffy industry is going to get a whole lot worse
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I was just looking at this. Seems to be expanding on a trial of AI tutorbots that Google did in English schools in summer, with the troubling conclusion that "The human's indispensable role became that of an emotional and pedagogical moderator", ie de-professionalized www.eedi.com/news/new-exp...

This is an interesting, if narrowly-tailored, article suggesting that LLM tutorbots are great at identifying correct answers, but surprisingly bad at offering helpful feedback when reasoning is “valid but weird” or wrong & at connecting diagnosis to feedback: arxiv.org/abs/2605.16207

UPenn study: student performance improves dramatically with GPT-4 but gets worse than a non-AI control group after access is taken away. Compared to solution generators, tutorbots net the same results as the control but seems to enhance engagement www.linkedin.com/posts/jonipp... 🐘♻️

Khanmigo Socratic tutorbots will expand out of the US, extend into the future, and invade every learner's brain on the planet ... not sure when my eyes rolled out of my face and hit the floor with this one www.possible.fm/podcasts/sal...

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DeepTutor is an open-source, agent-native tutoring platform that unifies chat, multi-agent problem solving, quiz generation, research, and math animation within a persistent memory-driven workspace. It features autonomous TutorBots, AI-powered co-writing, guided learning, (1/2)

"assisted tutorbots remains to be seen." occurred in: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/26/technology/newark-schools-khan-tutoring-bot.html