On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 1:31 PM, Leonardo M. Rocha <[email protected]> wrote: > > > TLDR: I would love your opinion and to discuss about the possibility of > implementing an intelligent tutor bot. What are the problems? >
The problems depend entirely on how you define "intelligent". If "intelligent" means a machine that can ask "When was the war of 1812?" and then answer "no, please try again" until the student answers "1812" then you should be able to build such a machine that works as you expect about 90% of the time. But if you want a tutor who asks "what was the relationship between the various Native American indian tribes during war?" and then if you get something wrong the machine will figure out what you likely don't know and tell you some things that will clear up misunderstandings. Then we might be 50 years away from that. If you want the machine to use words it knows you know and to make analogies that you can actually understand because it understands your life experiences (because it knows the student is Chinese.) then we might be 100 years away. Today we have machines that can access huge databases but true intelligent teaching requires the machine to contain a good, accurate model of the student's mind. This part, understanding the student is far past what anyone can do. But if you will settle for "flash cards in natural spoken language" then you can build it with current open source technology. What you should to as a next step is write down about a few dozen interactions. Scripts of what you would like to have between the student and tutor. Next rank those scripts based on the level of intelligence required. -- Chris Albertson Redondo Beach, California
