AI in education

🤖👩🏻‍🏫Socratic - an AI Tutor from Google

This app was just mentioned in one of the AI newsletters I read. I quickly jumped on it to have a look. If Google is behind it, you usually should.

This is a Socratic style tutor app that runs on a phone. You can snap a picture of a problem or question, use voice recognition or type it. The app quickly (and I do mean quickly) runs through the web and returns everything you need to know to solve that problem or question.

I gave it a quick spin and it tried to be true to its Socratic nature by showing you where and how the answer can be found instead of just giving you the answer. It was not always successful. We can only assume that this will get 100 fold better over time, maybe not as much time as we expect.

You should have a look, your students will probably know about this before you do, try and keep up! 😄