Comment by rahimnathwani

He's broadly right. And you should read some of the people he mentioned, like Greg Ashman.

But this part misses the point:

"As someone who makes use of AI quite a bit in my own learning, I can say that it’s still relatively weak at having a good model of an individual’s skill gaps and conceptual weaknesses."

It seems like he is expecting a chat-based LLM to maintain a model of the user's skill tree. But it wo:

- create a detailed skill tree for whatever subject

- have the user try to apply the skills

- store the user's mastery level for each node, in some structured format

This isn't something ChatGPT is going to do if you just starting chatting with it.

But you can design a system to do it, which is what the Math Academy folks have done.

Edtech tools don't have to have user-facing AI. They can use AI under the hood, or use no AI at run time at all.