A Student for Every Student: A proposed design for Generative AI in rethinking Education

If you can't teach something, you don't *really* understand it

I have a confession to make. When GPT-4 came out, one of my first instincts was putting in a problem set I had done for a college class and seeing how it would do. Question by question, I watched as the model generated not only comparable answers to mine but also added some incredibly nuanced and insightful explanations that I hadn't thought of. My mind went straight to one thing — man, think of all of the pain I would've saved throughout my education if I had this! I imagined a version of myself speedrunning every class, running an optimization scheme where I simultaneously minimized…

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