AI for Education (Super Tutors) - KhanAcademy
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Looking to the future of education, there's been concern about AI like ChatGPT leading to cheating and undermining education. But with proper guardrails in place, AI could transform education in a positive way. Imagine every student having their own AI-powered personal tutor and every teacher having an AI-powered teaching assistant. This would be a significant improvement based on the "2 sigma problem" study by Benjamin Bloom in 1984, which showed that 1-to-1 tutoring can result in a two standard-deviation improvement in student performance.
AI-powered personal tutors and teaching assistants have the potential to revolutionize education by providing personalized, adaptive learning experiences for every student. The speaker believes that AI can be used to transform education positively, leading to a two standard deviation improvement in student outcomes. They share a clip from the 2 sigma study, showing how 1-to-1 tutoring can turn an average or below-average student into an exceptional one.
Scaling group instruction in an economic way is a challenge, but progress is being made. The speaker introduces Khanmigo, their AI tutor, which is used to moderate student conversations and help students with exercises in math and programming. Khanmigo is able to identify student misconceptions and provide targeted feedback, and it can understand programming code and provide guidance to students.
The speaker believes that AI tutors like Khanmigo can provide better and faster help than even the best human tutors, making them a "super tutor". Khanmigo is capable of understanding the context of educational videos and can answer questions and quiz students on their knowledge. It can act as a guidance counselor, academic coach, career coach, and life coach for students, providing them with support and advice throughout their educational journey.
Salman Khan, founder of Khan Academy, gave a talk at TED 2022, discussing how AI can be used to enhance education, particularly in reading comprehension and writing. He demonstrated a prototype of Khanmigo, a tool that uses generative AI to ask students questions and provide feedback on their writing. He also showed how the same tool can be used by teachers to personalize education and save time on lesson planning.
There are debates on either side of AI, some are pessimistic while others are optimistic. The speaker argues that this decision is not a flip of a coin, and everyone is an active participant. The first line of reasoning, the pessimistic one, is almost a self-fulfilling prophecy that will lead to a dystopian state. We need to fight like hell to put in guardrails and regulations to address problems and promote positive use cases. One of the most powerful and poetic use cases for AI is to enhance human intelligence, potential, and purpose.
There is concern that students will use AI like ChatGPT to cheat on assignments and undermine education.
·??????However, with proper guardrails in place, AI could transform education in a positive way.
·??????The idea is to give every student an AI-powered personal tutor and every teacher an AI-powered teaching assistant.
·??????Providing every student with a personal tutor would be a significant improvement. This is based on the "2 sigma problem" study by Benjamin Bloom in 1984, which showed that 1-to-1 tutoring can result in a two standard-deviation improvement in student performance.
·??????AI-powered personal tutors and teaching assistants have the potential to revolutionize education by providing personalized, adaptive learning experiences for every student.
·??????The thesis has been that AI like ChatGPT will lead to cheating and undermine education, but the speaker argues that AI can be used to transform education positively.
·??????The speaker believes that every student can have an AI personal tutor and every teacher can have an AI teaching assistant, leading to a two standard deviation improvement in student outcomes.
·??????The speaker shows a clip from the 2 sigma study, which shows that 1-to-1 tutoring can turn an average or below-average student into an exceptional student.
·??????The speaker acknowledges that the challenge is scaling group instruction in an economic way, but believes that they are making progress towards that goal.
·??????The speaker introduces Khanmigo, their AI tutor, which is used to moderate student conversations and help students with exercises in math and programming.
·??????Khanmigo is able to identify student misconceptions and provide targeted feedback, and it can understand programming code and provide guidance to students.
·??????The speaker believes that AI tutors like Khanmigo can provide better and faster help than even the best human tutors, making them a "super tutor".
·??????Khanmigo is an AI-powered tutor developed by Khan Academy to help students learn more effectively and engage with educational content in a more personalized way.
·??????It is capable of understanding the context of educational videos and can answer questions and quiz students on their knowledge.
·??????It can act as a guidance counselor, academic coach, career coach, and life coach for students, providing them with support and advice throughout their educational journey.
·??????Khanmigo can even help students learn about literature and history by allowing them to have conversations with fictional or historical figures.
·??????It encourages students to engage in Socratic dialogue and debates, which are proven to be effective ways of learning.
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·??????Khanmigo can also help students improve their writing skills by collaborating with them on story-writing activities.
·??????Salman Khan, founder of Khan Academy, gave a talk at TED 2022.
·??????He discussed how AI can be used to enhance education, particularly in reading comprehension and writing.
·??????Khan showed a prototype of Khanmigo, a tool that uses generative AI to ask students questions and provide feedback on their writing.
·??????He also demonstrated how the same tool can be used by teachers to personalize education and save time on lesson planning.
·??????Khan emphasized the need to make AI applications feel magical and interactive, and shared that the Khan Academy team had been working for months to make this happen.
·??????One key improvement was allowing the AI to think before speaking, which improved its accuracy and ability to tutor.
·??????Khan believes that AI has the potential to address the "2 sigma problem" and dramatically improve education outcomes.
·??????There are debates on either side of AI, some are pessimistic while others are optimistic.
·??????The pessimistic view suggests that AI is scary and may lead to dystopian scenarios, so we need to slow down or pause.
·??????The optimistic view says that we have gone through inflection points before and everything has worked out, like the Industrial Revolution.
·??????The speaker argues that this decision is not a flip of a coin, and everyone is an active participant.
·??????The first line of reasoning, the pessimistic one, is almost a self-fulfilling prophecy that will lead to a dystopian state.
·??????The good actors will have worse AIs than the bad actors if we act with fear and stop doing this stuff.
·??????We need to fight like hell to put in guardrails and regulations to address problems and promote positive use cases.
·??????One of the most powerful and poetic use cases for AI is to enhance human intelligence, potential, and purpose.
source: TED talk for AI education