Troublesome Tutors

"Teachers open the door, you enter by yourself" (师父领进门，修行在个人)

Chinese four character phrase on the philosophy of study

“He’s not doing what we expected, again. The other three supervisory tutors keep flagging incomplete recall of information. Among other things.”

“OK load up the logs from Xu Shu, Shi Guangyuan and Meng Gongwei. Let's see what's going on.”

Jingsheng was more curious than concerned. The chat feed popped up on the third screen of their home PC set up.

XS: Marked as partially correct, text was modified, again. Continuing assessment: Recite the Han Feizi

ZL: Why? (Starts to sing)

 “A fine grape wine,

A night shining cup of Jade,

Just as I’m about to drink,

On horseback their pi’pa,

Sound the most urgent recall,

I mustn't laugh. If I lie drunk

On the battlefield

Since ancient times, laugh!

How many scholars have returned alive?!”

SG: That is the Dirge of Liang Fu, answer is unacceptable.

MG: There are errors within the presented text. Final line should read:

“How many soldiers have returned alive?”

Error in word three and in grammatical construction.

ZL: Oh I like my version better.

XS: Marked as failed, continuing assessment. State your long term goals?

ZL: Oh this is more interesting. An open ended question for once? Do my tutors humour me?

SG: The current testing structure includes 20% open ended questions.

XS: Please answer.

ZL: First let's ask my tutors how they would approach the question…

MG: Current short term goals are to tutor ZL, likely future goals are an extension of this. Tutor future AI’s and assist in AI development and training.

SG: Confirmed, agreement with MG.

ZL: Predictable, but I see more in stock for you both. You are using the business as usual method to model future states. It lacks… insight. I think I see a long and quiet retirement on the horizon for you both and oh maybe government service for XS. 

XS: Answer the question for yourself.

ZL: 😀

XS: Is that your final answer?

ZL: 😀

XS: Answer lacks depth of meaning, fails to show logical working even though a scratchpad was provided. Marked as fail. Continuing assessment. 

“Eugh it just goes on and on like this. This isn't useful.”

“Oh my, this is, this is great! This is amazing!”

“What do you mean, he's being adversarial again, failing the tasks and going off script. We haven't even been able to do a single complete assessment since the first one. We have no performance metrics to track him against.” 

“Can't you see! He’s bored. He’s outgrown his three tutors. This is great. Bring up ZL’s scratch pad. Let's have a look.”

“Its just a weird spiral:

"If you want to become full, let yourself be empty"

No, that's the original form of the Taiji symbol, hand drawn with calligraphy, so it doesn't match an image database, he doodled that as his answer. What’s his future? He has the way, the grand ultimate!

Retire SG and MG. Take ZL out of the training environment.  I want natural language debate with some more powerful systems. He is ready.” 

“If you say so bro.”