I don't have time to watch the baby during the winter vacation, can I put an AI learning machine and everything will be fine?
Since the children's winter vacation, parents have divided into "training class school", "foreign aid school", "technology school" and "learning machine" for how to look at the baby, among which the "learning machine" as a rising star has great development potential.
In today's learning machine market, brands such as iFLYTEK, Xiaodu, Xueersi, and Xiwo have raised the banner of AI, but in the actual experience, there are errors in AI problem solving, and the inaccuracy of the pushed content makes parents physically and mentally exhausted.
The reason why various brands of learning machines have been on AI, seems to be due to the blessing of AI, the product price is higher, and the sales volume is better; among them, iFLYTEK and Xiaodu are two brands, because they are backed by AI large models, the technology is more mature, the experience is more intelligent, and they are also more favored by parents.
However, although AI is getting closer and closer to real people, parents and teachers still seem to be irreplaceable when it comes to watching babies;
Look at the babies and show their powers
Since the beginning of the winter vacation, the beasts that have returned to the cage have started a battle with their parents, fighting wits and courage, one side wants to find the "sudden self", and the other side says to the child, "Struggle boy".
In order to let the children who left school continue to study tirelessly during the winter vacation, parents crossed the sea and showed their magical powers, joined different sects respectively, and put on a "tight spell" for their children.
The first group is called the "training class faction", the parents of this faction, as early as before the start of the winter vacation, signed up for training classes and interest classes for their children, and continued to manage their children in a centralized manner.
The second faction is called "Looking for Foreign Aid", in "Parents Love", Dehua brought up 5 children to his brother and sister-in-law, and some parents in reality also brought their aunts and sisters-in-law who were going to school to spend the winter vacation with their children;
The third group is called the "technology school", parents of this faction, suffering from limited education and training and insufficient foreign aid, can only let their children stay at home alone, or leave the elderly to take care of; however, they use technical means to install monitoring at home, set positioning for mobile phones, view App usage records, etc., and use technical means to realize remote care of children.
The fourth school is called "learning machine", all kinds of learning machines emerging on the market, so that more and more parents are tempted, buy back a learning machine for their children, and then make a good learning plan, and the children will receive KPIs during the winter vacation, and the results of the work assessment can also be used to look at the baby.
Nowadays, among the different factions of watching children, the "learning machine school", as a rising star, seems to be growing rapidly. Sandalwood China online data shows that in the second and third quarters of 2023, the online sales of learning machines increased by 27% and 24% year-on-year, respectively.
At the same time, the National Bureau of Statistics data show that China's 3-year-old to 18-year-old school-age population, the number of about 270 million, so it seems that the market potential of learning machines is great;
When the learning machine is next to the AI
For parents, it is a prudent thing to buy a learning machine for their children. After all, the choice of learning machine is related to education, and if the product itself is not reliable, it is easy to "take the child to the eggplant field".
In order to compete for users, more and more brands have begun to play the banner of AI, using the concept of artificial intelligence to make teaching "customized".
However, some parents who have purchased AI learning machines have encountered some troubles in the actual use process:
First of all, there will be errors in AI explanations.
Netizen Xiaoyu spent 6,000 yuan to buy a Youdao X20 learning machine, she told Pan Ge: "Youdao X20 learning machine, Chinese composition submitted many times, the system can recognize; use AI to explain math problems, do the same problem three times, solve three different answers." ”
Netizens also said: "2999 yuan to start the homework help learning machine, a math problem explained by AI, the child can't understand it, I also think there is a problem, and then I fed back to the customer service, and I found the solution to this problem." ”
Secondly, it is the inaccuracy of the content pushed by AI.
Netizen Mu Mu told Brother Pan: "I have a Youdao X20, which has an English AI system class in the primary school stage, even if you choose the highest level, it is simple for Shanghai primary school students, but the interaction of AI teachers is too poor." ”
At the same time, she also said: "I think the so-called AI precision is that AI judges which knowledge point the wrong question belongs to, and the background is connected to other topics according to the knowledge point, and the number of example questions depends on the company's question bank." ”
Crispy has a squirrel AI learning machine, and she also told Brother Pan: "At present, the content pushed by AI is not accurate enough, because there are many reasons why children make mistakes, and at present, AI is still not as good as human, so we finally found a teacher." ”
Since AI-blessed learning machines are not intelligent in many cases, why do learning machine brands on the market raise the banner of AI? Pan Ge found that it seems that because of AI-blessed products, prices and sales will increase.
For example, Xiwo Tmall flagship store, Xiwo W3 with AI picture book reading system, the discounted price is 4799 yuan, and more than 9000 pieces have been sold;
Can AI replace real people?
Although most AI learning machines are suspected of being more gimmicky than practical, there are also some products in today's market that have a good experience.
Pan Ge found that the two brands of iFLYTEK and Xiaodu have strong competitiveness in AI learning machine products because they are backed by iFLYTEK Xinghuo and Wenxin Yiyan AI large models.
In this regard, iFLYTEK said: "Although many learning machines, in appearance and publicity, imitate the characteristics of AI learning machines, such as the use of three-color knowledge graph interface, claiming that science and technology diagnose learning weaknesses, but in fact they are only fixed rules and cannot be personalized." ”
In contrast, iFLYTEK's personalized precision science is based on educational big data and AI technology. Even for two students with the same level of ability, iFLYTEK's AI learning machine can diagnose their different weaknesses and recommend their own learning paths and learning content. ”
During the 618 period last year, the iFLYTEK AI learning machine, at the same time on the two platforms of Jingdong and Tmall, became the "sales champion" of the learning machine category.
On the other hand,Xiaodu Education said:"Based on Baidu's artificial intelligence genes and large model capabilities,Xiaodu is best at AIThe multimodal human-computer interaction,Children can use learning machines in a variety of ways,Increase the fun of learning。 ”
"In terms of writing tutoring,Xiaodu learning machine is the only one in the industry with'AIThe product of pre-writing guidance',Guide children to review questions before writing、Clarify writing requirements and core topics,Then guide the construction of writing structure、Inspire writing ideas,Provide materials and word and sentence suggestions。 ”
According to the statistics of the data agency IDC: from the fourth quarter of 2021 to the third quarter of 2023, Xiaodu ranks first in the market share of China's learning tablets, and the current users have exceeded 2 million.
Although iFLYTEK and Xiaodu's learning machine products are closer to the ideal state of AI, AI-powered learning machines do not seem to be able to replace real people at present.
In this regard, Ms. Wu, an industry person, said as a parent: "Parents regard the learning machine as a baby artifact, and if they feel that they can liberate themselves, there seems to be no difference between putting their children in boarding schools and then expecting the school to teach their children well." ”
At the same time, netizen Dou Ma also said to Pan Ge: "The AI learning machine does a good job in many aspects, but it doesn't have to be mythical, it can be used to assist, but children's learning still depends on the teacher." ”
In this way, the current AI learning machine cannot completely replace parents and teachers, after all, if you want your child to fall in love with learning, parents must also make progress together.