At the dawn of the Educational Revolution, AI will bring the abundance of intellectual energy. Do not go gentle into that good night. 🦾
“Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.” — Dylan Thomas
AI Tutors On Demand
Andrej Karpathy is starting Eureka Labs, an AI-native education company. Imagine AI Feynman can be anyone’s personal tutor on demand. This is already possible like Character.ai. With the progress on the multimodal, it’s reaching new dimensions quickly as startups find ways to leverage videos from characters for lectures, speeches, and more. Soon, Jobs’ dream will come true. Let’s start capturing the underlying worldviews for the next “Aristotles” so anyone can ask them questions and get answers at any time. 🤞
“We can make a tool of a new kind, an interactive kind…it’s free intellectual energy…When the next Aristotle is alive, we can capture the underlying worldview of that Aristotle in a computer. And someday some student will be able to not only read the words Aristotle wrote but ask Aristotle a question. And get an answer.” — Steve Jobs, 1985
Baby Steps
Good ideas may be cheap, but great ideas are rare. When you see one & timing is right, what do you do to “feel lucky”? Remember, the journey can very well be the destination too. “It’s the climb”.
Pilot Run: AI-Enhanced Classroom Chatbots
In 2022, Georgia State University’s research showed their chatbot helping students earn final grades about 11 points higher than their peers. Good job, Georgia State! It’s a great proof of concept. Therefore, a $7.6m grant to National Institute for Student Success (NISS) at Georgia State University is well deserved. With the funding, a pilot AI chatbot can help more students in undergraduate math and English courses soon. I cannot wait to see how much students will improve and what new learning.
Experiment: Keep Quacking Toward Codifying Solutions
I’m a big fan of CS50. It’s not an ordinary university CS 101 course; it’s much better. I get new inspiration each year. Thanks, team Malan & Harvard University. This year, CS50 added special help for students’ final projects — an AI chatbot called CS50 Duck. This experimental AI chatbot is designed to help students learn to code. Instead of just giving answers like general consumer chatbots: ChatGPT & Gemini, it models the rubber duck debugging to guide students to learn better. Go, keep quacking. 🦆
MVC: LLM101n Let’s Build A Storyteller
For the kids you care about, why not level up their creativity with GenAI today? They will have a lot of fun creating stories, images, and songs. For those wondering how it works under the hood, you are in luck. Eureka Labs has its first product: LLM101n. This “Minimum Viable Course” walks you through all the magic. Even though it’s still a work in progress, this “Hello, World!” program will be out there for anyone, who curious. Things will only get better quickly. So, what are you waiting for?
