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Masters of Scale

Meet your kid’s new AI tutor, w/Khan Academy founder and CEO Sal Khan

Masters of Scale

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Entrepreneurship, Business, Management, Reid Hoffman, Mindset, Diversity & Inclusion, Jeff Berman, Bob Safian, Startups

4.64.4K Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Khan Academy first rocked the education world with online video. Now Khan Academy CEO and founder Sal Khan has gone all-in on AI, convinced that it has immense potential to democratize and improve education. Khan tells Rapid Response host Bob Safian how an early outreach from OpenAI led Khan Academy to create an AI assistant called Khanmigo, which is already being used by thousands of students and teachers. Khan shares lessons from this real-world experiment, plus the inspiration behind his new book, Brave New Words, and why the most educated among us tend to avoid the risks worth taking.

Pre-order Sal Khan’s new book, Brave New Words: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/740806/brave-new-words-by-salman-khan/

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0:00.0

Hey listeners, on May 13th, we invite you to join us and Reed Hoffman for a new virtual strategy session presented an alliance with Capital One business.

0:11.0

You'll hear insights from fellow entrepreneurs about how to be at the forefront of leading

0:15.8

change with AI.

0:18.0

So go to masterrescale.com AI strategy right now to register for free.

0:24.4

Again, that's Master of Scale.com AI strategy.

0:28.6

Looking forward to seeing you there.

0:32.0

Sam Altman and Greg Brockman of Open AI reached out to. there. with math and had issues with hallucinations. It was able to really, not just pretend,

0:45.0

but in some substantive ways really act

0:46.9

like a strong tutor would do.

0:49.8

Used well, this could get us much closer to this ideal of free world-class education

0:54.6

for anyone anywhere or being able to scale up the type of tutoring that I was doing

0:58.6

for my 12-year-old cousin back in 2004.

1:02.4

That's Sal Khan, founder of Khan Academy, an online learning platform that's made educational

1:08.8

videos accessible to millions of people across the globe.

1:13.0

Khan Academy has gone all in on AI through an AI assistant called

1:17.1

ConMigo that's already being field tested by thousands of students and

1:21.5

teachers.

1:22.6

Sal has recast assumptions about education through free online videos,

1:26.8

thousands of which he's personally hosted.

1:29.4

Now he's advancing a tech revolution using AI that may have even more impact on how we learn, how we teach,

1:36.8

and the concept of education for people of any age, anywhere.

1:41.0

This is rapid response. Let's get to it. Hi listeners it's Erica Flint.

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