What tool was used for video generation?
We have an in-house computer graphics pipeline. We reimplemented 3Blue1Brown's Manim in Rust from scratch. It is available at https://studio.academa.ai. The renderer runs in the browser using WebGPU.
LLM-Integrated Multivariable Calculus Course
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#12Who is signing off on the correctness?
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#14Who is signing off on the correctness?
We are. We're confident in the quality of the teaching and the accuracy of the content in these videos.
Our videos are not some MP4 files sitting on a disk. We see our content like software. We review it, version-control it, and maintain it.
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We have an in-house computer graphics pipeline. We reimplemented 3Blue1Brown's Manim in Rust from scratch. It is available at https://studio.academa.ai . The renderer runs in the browser using WebGPU.
is that renderer open source?
No, not yet. It's something we may do in the future.
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#16I think a lot of this is the inevitable (and good) direction teaching must go.
As someone who has self-taught most of my skills both before and after AI, some deep feedback: I don't want a fixed piece of content when learning with AI, like a video or blogpost or book—unless I'm completely new to the subject, and even then maybe not.
The reason is that some parts of the topic will be naturally easier or harder for me. When I use AI I tell it everything I know and understand and start working from my most burning questions and misunderstandings. This lets me cover the maximum amount of non-redundant ground in regards to my understanding.
We have this amazing new technology and you're conforming it to models of schooling (like the Prussian model) which are one or more centuries old. The technology is so powerful that it should allow you to completely reshape education, not merely replicate the status quo.
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#17I think a lot of this is the inevitable (and good) direction teaching must go. As someone who has self-taught most of my skills both before and after AI, some deep feedback: I don't want a fixed piece of content when learning with AI, like a video or blogpost or book—unless I'm completely new to the subject, and even then maybe not. The reason is that some parts of the topic will be naturally easier or harder for me.…
I couldn't agree more. But if you look at it from this perspective, you may understand why we use static videos for this demo.
Definition: the AI tutor is some AI that can generate these videos.
If that generation happens in real time, it's a complete reimagination of education. It's literally the AI private tutor.
But before you can do that in real time, ask yourself: let alone real time, can you even generate a video, let's say, in 30 minutes? That's what we explored, and we found some great things. But it's not real time yet. The only practical way to publish what we'd built, though, was as a static video paired with chat.
The complete reimagination of education is on the way.
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#18This sort of thing makes me depressed. The videos are LLM slop. You're a confused student. You do a web search. You run into something like this. It looks high-quality and professional. It is dogshit which no one can understand. The result is a confused learner who feels bad about themselves.
At the same time, thousands of low-quality resources overwhelm good content.
Integrating with an existing resources like MOOCulus could add a ton of value, in contrast, but wouldn't have the promise of making the creators money.
Being able to create manim animations at scale is a value-add, but doesn't seem enough of a value-add to create a business which does anything other than active harm. But it seems to be trying to be one.
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#19This sort of thing makes me depressed. The videos are LLM slop. You're a confused student. You do a web search. You run into something like this. It looks high-quality and professional. It is dogshit which no one can understand. The result is a confused learner who feels bad about themselves. At the same time, thousands of low-quality resources overwhelm good content. Integrating with an existing resources like MOOCu…
There are some incorrect premises here.
"The videos are LLM slop." - No, they're not. Watch them.
"It's dogshit that no one can understand." - That's not true. Try it.
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is that renderer open source?
No, not yet. It's something we may do in the future.
LLM-written clones of free software into proprietary seem to be a growing trend now.
With manim, it's probably legal (I think MIT license?), but in general, it makes the world a worse place.