Your personal tutor, always available: Sizzle ai

It will guide you through the learning process

Sizzle is a tutoring service that uses a combination of several A.I.s on the market. It operates in several languages, including French, and is free of charge. The way it operates gives a good idea of how an A.I. can be framed to provide a well-defined service.

The interface is uncluttered and you can consult your search history, which comes in handy when a problem is complex. You can also send problem diagrams as images or photos.

Helping students, really?

The aim of Sizzle is to help students complete their homework or solve their problems. Here's an example.

We asked him this question: "How many of Caesar's assassins were alive five years after the crime?"

Here's his answer:

Find out how many assassins took part in Caesar's murder.
Find out how many assassins were killed shortly after the crime.
Subtract the number of assassins killed from the total number of assassins to find how many were still alive 5 years after the crime.

If asked to reveal the answers, he'll give them.

There were 60 assassins involved in the murder of Caesar.
41 assassins were killed shortly after the crime.
19 assassins were still alive 5 years after the crime.

It remains to be seen whether these answers make sense. Chat GPT and Gemini are much more nuanced when it comes to survivors five years after the crime. Since he doesn't give his sources, a teacher would be well advised to ask the student for them, to make sure he's actually done some research.

As for math or chemistry problems such as "If we burn one kg of C8H18, how much CO2 by mass will we obtain? it's just as expeditious. If you're wondering what "stoichiometric" means, you'll have to look it up. Sizzle assumes that if you're asking this kind of question, you're familiar with the jargon of this branch of chemistry.

There's no doubt that Sizzle is a powerful tool, and one that students won't be shy about using, not necessarily following the suggested approach, even if it is relevant. The "Give me choices" option is reminiscent of the kind of MCQ questions whose pedagogical value is questionable.

It's just another artificial intelligence tool, with the same shortcomings as regards the reliability of answers and references.

However, these tools clearly challenge, if not replace, the current transmissive educational model, and will force it to move towards a model based on skills, curiosity and creativity, and one that works better with student participation in the process.

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