As someone working on an AI tool for education, I think it's going to be one of the hardest industries to get right, but also the most important.
- It's going to be tricky for AI tutors to make an impact. Teachers are better at inspiring students to do better than computers ever will be, but for those already motivated, AI will provide a great study tool.
- Students have access to LLMs as well now, so any writing assessment will have to be timed and closely monitored, or in-class, otherwise students can easily cheat.
- Teacher-facing tools will come before student-facing tools because of the safety aspect.
We're building an AI grading assistant for teachers (https://automark.io) that helps them provide more writing feedback to students. Papers are extremely time consuming to grade and give feedback on, which is detrimental to both the teacher and the student. Giving students unlimited practice essays before the scored essay is one area where AI will really move the needle.
Grading is also one of the main shortcomings of online courses, so I'm guessing we'll see more in that area in the future where high quality courses can scale to 10k-100k+ students.
>We're building an AI grading assistant for teachers
So students will be generating papers with AI and teachers grading them with AI? Maybe the real problem is education and teaching isn't innovating as fast as tech
Can't remember where but saw a comic not too long ago when an employee uses AI to generate a long email and the recipient uses AI to summarize it
- It's going to be tricky for AI tutors to make an impact. Teachers are better at inspiring students to do better than computers ever will be, but for those already motivated, AI will provide a great study tool.
- Students have access to LLMs as well now, so any writing assessment will have to be timed and closely monitored, or in-class, otherwise students can easily cheat.
- Teacher-facing tools will come before student-facing tools because of the safety aspect.
We're building an AI grading assistant for teachers (https://automark.io) that helps them provide more writing feedback to students. Papers are extremely time consuming to grade and give feedback on, which is detrimental to both the teacher and the student. Giving students unlimited practice essays before the scored essay is one area where AI will really move the needle.
Grading is also one of the main shortcomings of online courses, so I'm guessing we'll see more in that area in the future where high quality courses can scale to 10k-100k+ students.