Brainback and the AI Tutor That Won’t Do Your Homework

Field notes

The public demo models a deliberately withholding tutor: students choose a subject prompt, receive correction and guidance, and advance through five increasingly revealing hints rather than unlocking a full solution at once. The interface names examples such as chain-rule calculus, Cobb–Douglas economics, recursion, and essay help. Its learning-science framing cites Ebbinghaus, Bjork, and Roediger & Karpicke, while the page describes later recall cards and spaced review as part of the broader study workflow.