Khan Academy’s Sal Khan: “Building an AI tutor for every student”

The Times Tech Podcast

Will Morley

Business, Unknown, Technology

4.9 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Sal Khan, founder of Khan Academy, to talk about how he started tutoring family members (4:30), doing startups in the dotcom boom (5:50), starting to do videos in 2006 (10:15), building a business from his closet (14:15), linking up with openAI (16:30), building an AI tutor (19:40), dealing with hallucinations (22:30), moving from text to voice and video (25:55), the Covid effect (30:30), an education co-pilot (33:45), the relationship with schools (38:00), and his new book (42:50).

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0:36.2	about? So I think AI, because of its conversational nature,
0:40.2	it's going to be able to unblock folks when they're stuck in that moment,
0:42.7	but it's also going to be able to motivate.
0:44.2	It's going to be able to remember and have a long-lasting connection with the student.
0:48.1	And we have a project we're internally calling it proactive conmigo.
0:51.7	We're adding a bunch of features, so it is more proactive. So it's not just waiting for the student
0:56.0	or the teacher to ask it to do something,
0:58.0	that it will say, hey, are you sure you don't need this right now?
1:01.0	Or eventually, you can imagine it directly communicating
1:04.0	it to parents and teachers,
1:06.0	what the students are working on,
1:08.0	and also how the parents or the teachers
1:10.0	might better support the student.
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