Rapid Response: Meet your kid’s new AI tutor, w/Khan Academy founder and CEO Sal Khan
Masters of Scale
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🗓️ 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.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, it's Bob Safian. You've been hearing me as the host of rapid response in this feed for a few years now, |
| 0:07.8 | with short newsy interviews alongside the deeper dives of Masters of Scale. Well, I'm excited to share that rapid response is expanding into its own feed. |
| 0:17.0 | We'll be putting out shows twice a week, focusing on the urgent issues that business leaders are dealing with in real time. |
| 0:24.8 | So search for rapid response in your podcast player |
| 0:28.0 | and subscribe to make sure you get all our episodes. |
| 0:31.2 | I'll see you on the other side. |
| 0:35.0 | Sam Altman and Greg Brockman of open AI reached out to me and said, |
| 0:39.0 | hey, we have a model coming up. |
| 0:41.0 | Even though it had issues with math, it had issues with |
| 0:43.9 | hallucinations. It was able to really not just pretend but in some substantive |
| 0:48.8 | ways really act like a strong tutor would do. Used well, this could get us much closer to this ideal of free world-class education for anyone anywhere |
| 0:58.0 | or being able to scale up the type of tutoring that I was doing for my 12 year old cousin back in 2004. |
| 1:05.0 | That's Sal Khan, founder of Khan Academy, an online learning platform that's made educational |
| 1:11.6 | videos accessible to millions of people across the globe. |
| 1:16.0 | Khan Academy has gone all in on AI through an AI assistant called Khan Migo that's already |
| 1:21.6 | being field tested by thousands of students and teachers. |
| 1:25.0 | Sal has recast assumptions about education through free online videos, |
| 1:29.0 | thousands of which he's personally hosted. |
| 1:32.0 | Now he's advancing a tech revolution using AI that may |
| 1:35.8 | have even more impact on how we learn, how we teach, and the concept of education for people |
| 1:41.6 | of any age anywhere. This is rapid response. Let's get to it. Hi listeners it's Erica Flynn. |
| 1:59.0 | It's Erica Flynn. |
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