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Very good piece Claire!

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Google and Microsoft's AI strategies in the education sector demonstrate innovation and diversity, while OpenAI's ChatGPT Edu further advances AI applications in higher education.

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Really helpful - curious about defining 'good teaching' and to the same extent 'good learning'?

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That's a stellar overview of the LearnLM model (frankly better than my first reaction captured at https://davidharper.substack.com/p/why-llm-tutors-will-get-better). It prompts a few thoughts for me:

* Glad you mentioned safety: I'm just so struck by the idea of harmful anthropomorphisms. Even before the AI influencers' tendency to encourage everybody to "treat AI like a person" (Ethan Mollick's Principle #3), this dynamic seems *inevitable* yet, in so many ways, harmful

* The single best idea I took away from the paper is that "helpfulness may often be at odds with pedagogy and learning". When referring to the paper, I find myself sometimes saying "an LLM tutor wants to be LESS HELPFUL than an optimized LLM who wants to give you the best answer."

* As I wrote in my post, I think the key achievement of LearnLM was the so far successful Automatic Evaluations because, to me, that implies they have designed a viable optimization method. I happen to believe the proposition that LLM-critics can help improve LLM-tutors, so I think they are on the right path

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