\ \ \ \ Welcome to States of Learning. I'm Erika. I research whether the world model paradigm in AI - systems that build and update internal repre...
On the gap between measuring learning and modelling it and the architectural choices that gap implies There is a question that sounds simple and turns out to be surprisingly hard: what does it mean to know something? Not to have encountered it, or to be able to reproduce it under familiar conditions, but to genuinely know it - in the sense that the knowledge is stable, connected to other…
On what AI does to learning when it gives answers instead of building understanding Consider two students who have spent a year working with an AI tutoring system. Both have completed hundreds of sessions. Both have seen their grades improve. Now remove the AI and ask them both to solve a problem they have not seen before, without assistance. One of them can do it. The AI was a sparring partner:…
On why educational AI detects failure too late, and what detecting it earlier would require Picture this: The time has come and the teacher returns carefully graded exams to his class. A student who seemed to be keeping up, who completed the homework, who raised their hand occasionally and gave reasonable answers, has failed. And looking back, the signs were there: a slight uncertainty three weeks…