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 What do you tutor them in? 
 For standardized tests 
 Just typical SATs or something else? 
 GMAT, GRE 
 It's become really easy to create new math questions with AI chatbots 
 How do your students perform with AI generated questions? 
 Equally well. But you can prompt AI to create hard problems 
 Yes, that's true🤔. But, if they perform equally well with more difficult AI-generated equations than that just means that the professor's relevance is beginning to dwindle. Maybe, it would be best to not be so reliant on AI for that task. My two cents. 
 They do well on the harder problems after training. You have to train them a specific way, for example in rate problems, before they have a "regimen" for the harder problems  
 I guess. Can't AI just construct all that for you? 
 In its current state, AI is not clever, just smart. It doesn't teach you to see 2/5 as 40% or vice versa, and these are the sort of smarts you need for these tests

You need a bunch of strategies to ace these tests 
 I need to toy around with it more. Thanks! 
 This is what AI does

** Problem: If 6 workers can complete a job in 4 days, how long would it take 8 workers to complete the same job?

Step 1: Find the value of one unit (in this case, the worker-days required)
- 6 workers × 4 days = 24 worker-days

Step 2: Use that value to calculate the desired quantity
- Total worker-days required = 24
- With 8 workers: 24 ÷ 8 = 3 days **

That's too long and confusing. Simply, if 6 workers take 4 days, one worker will take 24 days. So 8 workers will take 24/8 = 3 days

 
 Where's even the need to talk about "worker-days" and wtf is that??

It's simple math

6 workers take 4 days
1 worker takes 6x or 24 days
8 workers take 1/8th or 24/8 = 3 days

I've mostly found that AI solutions are not intuitive  
 It's better at writing problems than solving them 
 my feed only shows this comment of yours, nostr:nprofile1qqs8t5fpgx3erx2vgp39q8c4tshrfeq63s70n0heunta9xp9x3vdrcsprpmhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68y6ty9e3k7mf0qy08wumn8ghj7um4wpjhyar9wd6xuet59ehx7um5wgcjucm0d5hsz8rhwden5te0dehhxarj9e3xjarrda5kuurvv438xtnyv5hsl6utae and oddly I thought you meant something else LOL 🤣🤣🤣  
 Lol. No.

I guess I could've prhased it a little better. 
 awwwee. not your fault. my curiosity got the better of me LOL 🤣 it was my fault ha ha 🤦😅 
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 Toy with it all you want 😂

AI can't apply logic so it can't "solve" math 
 Buddy, you understand neither AI nor math if you think AI can "apply logic" to solve math 
 Lol I'm pretty good at math. I don't understand AI that well. On that one, I agree. That's why I said I'll toy around with it more😂.