Let me make a start - and others can weigh in...
I guess, that's my first point - a 'good' answer requires more nuance than the question provides.
We're only a short evolutionary distance from our hunter-gatherer past, learning is still social, even 'academic' learning - why else ask these things on HN?
A little while ago,I was turned down for a training course - offered to all, our CEO said 'you could learn that from a book' - true, but; I wanted an on-ramp to an unfamiliar area (felt I didn't know what I didn't know).
I think the bard scenario provides an alluring step forward but misses some of the complexity of learning (especially for this audience who have internalized it).
Short answer, I think it's a useful idea, we (bard) is not there - yet - will be a useful research assistant, has a way to go before being a tutor, I'm not sure our (human) side would benefit from replacing good lecturers - the best I've known could steer my curiosity in a way (social) that I don't see emerging from LLMs - yet...
AI has no intelligence. It has no capability to reason. It cannot answer questions that don't quite understand the topic the asker is attempting to learn. It lies or unknowingly tells falsehoods. AI can't give you an accredited degree that employers, universities, research labs, and so forth care about. AI can't grade the science fair poster.
We could go on. AI in its current form is unsuitable for the task you're asking it to do.
Let me make a start - and others can weigh in... I guess, that's my first point - a 'good' answer requires more nuance than the question provides. We're only a short evolutionary distance from our hunter-gatherer past, learning is still social, even 'academic' learning - why else ask these things on HN? A little while ago,I was turned down for a training course - offered to all, our CEO said 'you could learn that from a book' - true, but; I wanted an on-ramp to an unfamiliar area (felt I didn't know what I didn't know). I think the bard scenario provides an alluring step forward but misses some of the complexity of learning (especially for this audience who have internalized it). Short answer, I think it's a useful idea, we (bard) is not there - yet - will be a useful research assistant, has a way to go before being a tutor, I'm not sure our (human) side would benefit from replacing good lecturers - the best I've known could steer my curiosity in a way (social) that I don't see emerging from LLMs - yet...
Sure.
AI has no intelligence. It has no capability to reason. It cannot answer questions that don't quite understand the topic the asker is attempting to learn. It lies or unknowingly tells falsehoods. AI can't give you an accredited degree that employers, universities, research labs, and so forth care about. AI can't grade the science fair poster.
We could go on. AI in its current form is unsuitable for the task you're asking it to do.