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2,383 participants, 175,000+ student-AI messages, three arms (AI tutoring, human tutoring, none) on Quantitative and Verbal GRE questions. AI tutoring was statistically equivalent to expert human tutoring (p=.015), and the best AI tutor beat the human tutor in five of seven GRE domains on average. $0.0052 per session against $4.81 (arXiv). A second study used 2,028 expert pairwise ratings of LLM lesson plans.
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