Ask HN: Socratic LLM?

[lahvak]

Anybody tried to train a LLM, or seen a LLM that instead of providing "authoritative" answers to queries, would lead a user to a discovery through a series of questions and hints? Would such thing even be possible?

[exz]

It's definitely possible. The founder of Khan Academy demonstrated something like this with GPT-4o: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvXZCocyU_M