Really enjoyed the conversation with Rufus Griscom
Here’s a question that has been on my mind — what impact will AI have on education? I just had a conversation with Sal Khan, the founder of Khan Academy and author of the new book BRAVE NEW WORDS, on the Next Big Idea podcast and I am convinced: Education is about to be *radically* transformed by AI, and largely for the better. Here’s the opportunity: 1 - 1:1 tutoring (personalized instruction) has been shown to increase academic performance by 2 standard deviations — that’s increasing a child’s performance from the 50th percentile to the 96th percentile! 2 - Personalized instruction has historically only been available to the wealthy. 3 - AI is about to make personalized instruction in *every* subject available to the *entire* planet 24/7. 4 - AI tutors, Sal assures us, will not replace teachers; they will make them more effective. Just as universal public education was world changing, creating large middle classes in the first countries that introduced it centuries ago, universal AI tutoring could generate massive, large-scale public benefit. I have been plahying with Khan Academy’s Khanmigo AI tutor, powered by GPT-4 — try it, and you will see that it’s *already* exceptionally good. This, I think, is on the short list of the near-to-medium term upsides of AI, alongside an acceleration of progress in medicine and clean energy. What are the downsides? We get into this in some detail in our conversation. Listen to my conversation with Sal on Apple or Spotify, and share your thoughts about the intersection of AI and education in the comments below. https://lnkd.in/eq2mVY89 https://lnkd.in/eF6Qnhkm
this is amazing
AI's potential to democratize personalized education is groundbreaking. Imagine the global impact: improved learning for all, enhanced teaching methods, and bridging educational gaps.
Keeping track of how your cousins performed needed a Sal in those days. In today's day and age, if AI is performing personalized tuition, why do you need a human overseeing it? In fact, at the scale with which - as you rightly point out - these personalized AI tutors can grow, humans will be incapable of overseeing it. We need to recognize, that some of these are one-way streets, and once we embark upon that journey, it is fraught with challenges that we must embrace! And once kids are even more embedded with their digital tutor, the inconvenience and discomfort dealing with human tutors is another factor that could make this journey a truly "no return" one. My .02. I have been wrong before and will likely be wrong again but what the heck 😅
Kinda loving Sal Khan right about now. Griscom ain't so bad, too, also, tambien.
I’m a huge fan of khan academy. I really liked how AI can play a role in learning. This is like the new age of learning in the future! I’m really enjoying this!
Sal Khan, would love to host you on The Guiding Voice (world's only quadri-lingual podcast) 500th episode!! Kindly let me know how to connect
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2mothe question should be what impact will Sal Khan have on AI in education? Rufus Griscom