Back to episode — Episode 2791 CWSA 03/27/25
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not in there. Meanwhile, there's a private Texas school that claims that by using an AI program, an AI tutor, that its students have moved to the top 2% in the country. Fox News is reporting on this. And the co-founder of the school, it's called Alpha School, says the students are learning better and faster, and they only spend a few hours a day talking to the AI and then they're done with all th…
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Now the Alpha School is looking to expand. So it's got a few hundred students now, but it's going to expand across the United States. So that would sort of suggest it's a for-profit school, right? I mean, I don't see anything that says it's government-funded or anything. So it's a for-profit entity that's telling us that their product works better than other people's product. Well, if you can't trust that, what can you trust?
Now, as others have pointed out, if it's a private school and it's for-profit, there's probably a little healthy tuition going on there. And I would expect that it would only attract the best students. Now let me ask you this. If you put a top student in front of an AI that's really good at quizzing them, could they get done with all their necessary work in a few hours? I'd say yes, probably yes. If you take an average student or a not-so-good student and say sit here alone with this AI until your homework's done in three hours, how's that going to go? I don't think that's go
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ing to work at all. So once again I think we're going to learn that the people who have all the advantages—and in this case it would be the rich, smart people—probably can get a huge advantage from using AI as part of their process. But I'm not so sure that AI is going to work for every kind of student. It might only work for the top students, and then everybody else has to figure it out. We'll s…
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