Kids using AI to help them in their GCSEs

[angstysoul]

Hey everyone! With all the new AI advancements and as someone quite techy I wanted to see whether my kids could use some of the new tech to help them with their GCSEs, I had heard khan academy was working on something so I decided to explore AI platforms to help my son prepare.
I recently started using some, and I wanted to share some initial impressions:
Some are better than others and are like talking to a real person whilst others are a lot more linear and the AI features are a lot more general.
Some are better at trying to directly target exam board specification points, these are really good and i feel help structure things.
Some cons are that sometimes there platforms lock you in so you cant go too far from the syllabus which sometimes makes it more difficult to explain things. Also some are quite glitchy too and you can break them.
I'm still getting the hang of using them, but so far, it seems promising and way easier to learn stuff quickly for the kids. Has anyone else here tried AI platforms for learning? What's your take?

I'm not familiar with these but interested as to what you mean/how you use them.

How do you know if any of the information you are getting is correct? Are they LLMs like ChatGPT or more like bots that just look up set phrases etc?

I have no idea how exam boards will ever be able to suss AI-generated essays in coursework etc (unless there's a huge blunder). It's not like plagiarism where you can look for strings of text.

For example, if I went on chat GPT and asked a mathematical sum, it can quite confidently give you a very obviously wrong answer. So I guess they must be limited in some way but I don't know how. How are their results even assessed for accuracy?

Hi so we had been given access to two ai websites, one was tassomai and has a vast amount of content but the AI downsides you mentioned about it sometimes confidently telling you incorrect information did happen, you could also just bring the AI off topic quite easily by talking about anything else. My guess is that tassomai uses an early LLM?

Another the school gave us access to was medly ai which seems quite new and actually worked really well, it discusses topics by specification point like a human until you understand it and even gives you exam questions and then marks it like an examiner. You can tell it isnt giving you incorrect information because it seems to be locked in for each specification point and you can see the textbook it uses, i think this is probably using a new LLM like chatgpt. The main downside was that it is only for GCSE biology and to be honest I can only see this kind of thing being really useful for science or maths.