I also wish I had AI in college. I would have used it to descramble the unintelligible utterances of the calculus lecturers who had minimal or no English language skills.
Those poor calculus lecturers are most likely required to teach in order to earn their PHD. It is unfortunate that most students do not get to learn higher level math because of it. I was the type of student who did better when the professor was difficult, but engaging.
For example, I hated English growing up and then I had a college English course with a professor who was absolutely passionate about it and made it fun. Now, I hate English a little less and could appreciate it more. We need more people like that for other subjects.
For the last two decades, YouTube (or better, MIT's OpenCourseWare) has provided instruction that sets a baseline.
I'm positive that college lecturers fall below this baseline, but there's plenty of alternatives that a moderately motivated student could use.
Part of the problem is that the typical ~20 year old student has little idea how to learn something and little opinion about what their education should produce, to guide them.
As someone who did well in Calculus and had engaging instructors I’m not sure I’d call any of the textbooks well written. That being said I doubt AI’s ability to be enlightening to any student tackling PDEs or vector calculus
For example, I hated English growing up and then I had a college English course with a professor who was absolutely passionate about it and made it fun. Now, I hate English a little less and could appreciate it more. We need more people like that for other subjects.