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What's wrong with spellcheckers? The only problem I have had with them is that they're triggered by technical terms, but that's just a minor inconvenience.
(Thinking I have the spellchecker on when I don't and therefore leaving mistakes in can also be a problem, but it's not strictly the spellchecker's fault.)
Also, before anyone asks, I do find ChatGPT and similar software quite useful.
The reference to spellchecking was because at the core this is how (very simplistically) LLMs work as well. Training on data and probability of the next word. For some purposes it works great most of the time, for others it's like using a screwdriver to beat in a nail. It might work sometimes to some degree, but not what it's for.
My opinion is that LLMs are being forced to be solutions in all sorts of places when we're still trying to figure out their best application. To do this in a grade school academic setting is probably not the best idea, such experimental things should filter down from the higher education once they work well. This is about money and someone trying to find a simple answer instead of fixing the problem correctly.
That's not wrong but it is pedantic, contrary to popular usage, and irrelevant to the discussion of how LLMs might affect education. (I'm not saying you are pedantic, because you aren't the one who originally brought it up.) The whole discussion of spellcheckers is.
Education doesn't have a first-mover advantage, but people are excited about AI and I don't blame them. The risks of this particular attempt are quite low, so while I don't think I would send a kid to this school myself, I don't think parents who do are wrong.
I think this technology will be useful in elementary schools before it will be useful in higher education, because college students are more capable of learning without supervision.
Your last point is really the key one, isn't it? Is a LLM reliable enough to be put in charge of supervising a child's path of learning? I've messed around with local LLMs enough to realize that I'd better double check everything it gives me, as its goal is to tell me what I want to hear, not what is factual.
In rereading that it occurred to me that it was not very different from the worse of the teachers I have had long ago in the past...so take that as a warning, I guess.
https://tenor.com/search/autocorrect-meme-gifs
Ah, I was thinking of autocorrect on PCs, which generally won't change what you wrote without your input. I swipe to type on my phone and the phone does often interpret my gestures as a word other than the one that I intended, but my gestures are so imprecise that I think the phone does a remarkably good job even if I do have to proofread afterwards.
I expect that the phones will do better once they have AI capable of noticing things the user clearly didn't intend to write.
Spellcheck and autocorrect are AI, lol.
I suppose they're AI in a very general sense according to which even simple, deterministic programs such as one that plays tic-tac-toe are AI, but they're not generative models like the software people people usually have in mind when they say "AI" is.
Ummm, dude where are you getting this info? It's the OG of AI. It learns from your mistakes and teaches the model.
Edit: Do you know what AI is? I suggest looking at what it really does.