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Active reading is a hands-on way of reading where you annotate, flip pages, and mentally converse with authors to really understand ideas. Only a small slice of people have trained their brains to do this well.
Large language models can act like ‘author bots’ that let readers have interactive dialogues with texts, summarise arguments, and answer questions, providing a shortcut to the benefits of active reading. They can serve as tutors so people don’t need years of training to think like hyperliterate readers.
The practical path is many domain-specific, lean AI assistants that summarise material, use RAG, and act as bespoke tutors offering competing voices. This approach is likely more useful and economically viable than just building ever-larger general-purpose models.