EDUCATION 4o: How AI Will Revolutionize the Way We Learn

The Next Big Idea

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🗓️ 30 May 2024

⏱️ 65 minutes

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AI is coming for education. According to our guest today, Sal Khan, that's a good thing. Sal is the founder of Khan Academy, which has provided free education to more than 140 million learners, and the author of "Brave New Words: How AI Will Revolutionize Education (and Why That's a Good Thing)."

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0:00.0	LinkedIn presents.
0:05.0	I'm Rufus Griskam and this is the next big idea.
0:09.0	Today, AI is going to revolutionize education.
0:14.6	Are we ready for it? I started getting chills because it was able to not just answer a question, it was able to explain why,
0:37.8	and you know an AP level biology question, why that answer worked, why the other answers didn't work, it was clear that this was the moment
0:45.8	where AI was getting good enough to start to approximate some of what we thought was only the
0:51.4	domain of a tutor.
0:53.0	Can you imagine having a tutor that knows not only all the world's information,
0:59.0	but everything that you know and don't, All the gaps in your knowledge, a tutor that is
1:05.8	endlessly patient, always there, familiar with the best teaching techniques,
1:10.9	a tutor that's funny, a tutor that can give you generous counsel on how to focus,
1:16.1	how to clear your mind of the concerns and anxieties that clutter it, a tutor that can explain
1:21.4	what information is most useful to accomplish the things you hope to accomplish.
1:27.1	This tutor is coming. It may have already arrived. It's powered by artificial intelligence and it will soon be
1:35.5	available to everyone on the planet. These are the good tidings coming from my
1:41.9	guest today, Sal Khan.
1:44.8	Sal is the founder of Khan Academy, the education nonprofit that has consistently
1:49.7	leveraged the latest technologies to teach over 140 million students in more than 50
1:56.0	languages. He's out with a brand new book, Brave New Words, how AI will revolutionize education, and why that's a good thing.
2:06.2	Sal's thesis is relatively simple.
2:09.8	Personal tutoring is extremely effective, but it's historically only been available to the wealthy.
2:16.0	AI is now, today, an exceptional personal tutor, and it will only get better.
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