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Comment by ChaitanyaSai

We saw this when it was released, and it's not because of any amazing prescience.

https://blog.comini.in/p/why-khanmigo-will-fail

It's just quite obvious when you run a school (we do). It's because AI is focused on making the mechanics easy. But as long as we focus on measurement (how much are they learning) and start from there, the near-term focus is inevitable on the surface mechanics of learning (can they decode or encode when reading, do their tables etc)

Meaning > Motivation > Mechanics > Measurement

The natural order of learning is when we are allowed to discover, explore, find meaning. This motivates us to focus on getting better, mastery, which is where mechanics should come in. And finally, because it is helpful to know where we are generally, we measure some outcomes. But schooling systems have completely inverted this!

More here if anyone's interested: https://blog.comini.in/p/schooling-has-a-meaning-crisis-para...

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