About whether AI tutors in ChatGPT plugins will revolutionize education.
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Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
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About whether AI tutors in ChatGPT plugins will revolutionize education.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
We need it to actually be correct 100% of the time, though. The current state where a chat interface is unable to say "I don't know" when it actually doesn't know is a huge unsolved problem. Worse, it will perform all the steps of showing its work or writing a proof, and it's nonsense.
This revolution is the wrong one if we can't guarantee correctness, or the guarantee that AI will direct the user to where help is available.