Ben Williamson explains his "metaphorical labouring of the 'oblong' as a model of education" as a way to illustrate how "despite the rhetoric of transformation, all these AI tutors really seem to promise is a one-to-one transactional model of learning where the student interacts with a device." At times he seem to suggest that it is this pedagogy that's the problem, but the main issue seems to be his belief that AIs simply won't be successful: "AI tutors are simplified models of the very complex, situated work of pedagogy. We shouldn't expect so much from oblongs." I think he's drawing too much from the metaphor, from corporate rhetoric, and from Apple's widely criticized 'crush' advertisement, and not enough from what AI is actually doing in education.
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