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Ask HN: What would make you trust an AI's assessment of your understanding?

A developer is seeking feedback on an AI tutoring system that uses a live voice challenge, in which learners verbally explain their answers to an AI that then drills down with follow-up questions, as a way to verify genuine understanding rather than test completion. The developer said the voice feature was built on the suspicion that it is harder to fake comprehension in conversation than by picking a multiple-choice answer, and asked what would make users trust an AI's diagnosis of their understanding. The Ask HN post received 1 point and 0 comments.

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Creating an AI tutor that won't let you progress without having learned anything — not just completing a test. You train, are diagnosed for any problems in understanding, and there is now a live voice challenge where you need to verbally explain your response to an AI, and then it drills down with additional questions.

The voice feature was created by me under the suspicion that it is way more difficult to pretend to have understood something while talking to someone rather than choosing a proper multiple choice answer. But to be honest, I don't know if that is a valuable idea or just another sign of my attachment to the most complicated thing I created.

So, the question I want to ask seriously is: What would help you to trust an AI's diagnosis of your understanding? And is it even worthwhile, or should I stick to the solution of doing spaced repetition and trusting myself?

Comments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49699185](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49699185)

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