Reminds me of Karpathy's education startup. I think it had a similar premise. What happened to it?
LearnVector – Andrew Ng's AI company building one‑to‑one learning experiences
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Re: LearnVector – Andrew Ng's AI company building one‑to‑one learning experiences
#72> 01 Plans a path with you > 02 Adapts to how you learn > 03 Patiently stays with you until you've mastered new skills 1 and 2 any of the big AI companies will do that for you. I have Claude doing this for me for a few learning areas. 3 to me feels like the Duolingo bird. IMHO, they are trying to solve the wrong thing. People who want to learn will gravitate to learning systems. If you can find a way to pull in peopl…
I mean "People who want to learn will gravitate to learning systems." means that this is the obvious target market for a learning system. Since there are lots of those out there you win on execution.
>If you can find a way to pull in people who don't want to learn, that has value.
Most companies try to address a known market and not create one.
At any rate you have two types of people who don't want to learn:
1. people who don't want to learn and have to anyway, for some reason (generally work related)
2. people who don't want to learn and have nothing forcing them.
Number 1 is a potential market, number 2 seems hopeless.
Re: LearnVector – Andrew Ng's AI company building one‑to‑one learning experiences
#73> 01 Plans a path with you > 02 Adapts to how you learn > 03 Patiently stays with you until you've mastered new skills 1 and 2 any of the big AI companies will do that for you. I have Claude doing this for me for a few learning areas. 3 to me feels like the Duolingo bird. IMHO, they are trying to solve the wrong thing. People who want to learn will gravitate to learning systems. If you can find a way to pull in peopl…
Totally agree that the missing ingredient is making people want to learn. Which seems like something that gets harder every day.
A very cynical way to put it: "Why should I learn something when AI could do for me?"
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Re: LearnVector – Andrew Ng's AI company building one‑to‑one learning experiences
#75As a daily user of Anki and Math Academy, I'm very excited about how software can help us learn.
Now, with AI, we can really build tools that were not possible before. I built for myself AlgoTutor[1], a CLI tool that teaches Go developers algorithmic skills and concurrency.
The recent Understanding floating point[2] from Oz Nova is also a type of tutorial I want to see more often.
Re: LearnVector – Andrew Ng's AI company building one‑to‑one learning experiences
#76> 01 Plans a path with you > 02 Adapts to how you learn > 03 Patiently stays with you until you've mastered new skills 1 and 2 any of the big AI companies will do that for you. I have Claude doing this for me for a few learning areas. 3 to me feels like the Duolingo bird. IMHO, they are trying to solve the wrong thing. People who want to learn will gravitate to learning systems. If you can find a way to pull in peopl…
Yeah, I think people who really want to learn will very quickly grow out of this.
This is for people who don't want to learn but actually have to for some reasons.
Re: LearnVector – Andrew Ng's AI company building one‑to‑one learning experiences
#77Hopefully the app itself won't look AI-generated like the design of the website. This one isn't so bad, but has hallmarks of Claude designs. Nowadays I keep getting shocked to find severely sloppy designs when browsing through Y Combinator startups. For me, this is a signal that the people behind the product don't care much.
Re: LearnVector – Andrew Ng's AI company building one‑to‑one learning experiences
#78"We're heads‑down building, and will have products to show by early 2027."
By then frontier models may be able to do this by prompting. Even now it is very easy to get one of the chat interfaces to keep quizzing you and adapt to your level, answer your questions, and in general behave how I imagine a tutor behaves. It lacks integrated stats/progress/gamification/long term memory but those can be added by a simple vibecoded app or are usually unnecessary for actual learning.
Re: LearnVector – Andrew Ng's AI company building one‑to‑one learning experiences
#79"We're heads‑down building, and will have products to show by early 2027." By then frontier models may be able to do this by prompting. Even now it is very easy to get one of the chat interfaces to keep quizzing you and adapt to your level, answer your questions, and in general behave how I imagine a tutor behaves. It lacks integrated stats/progress/gamification/long term memory but those can be added by a simple vib…
I hope they’re planning to build hardware so the learning experience can be close to pen and paper. Keyboards and screens are a distraction and the brain learns better with a pencil than with a keyboard.
Re: LearnVector – Andrew Ng's AI company building one‑to‑one learning experiences
#80There's a huge potential in personalized learning/education space. A big problem in education is that everyone learns different, and teachers / schools have to go by the speed of the lowest common denominator. AI can tailor content to the individual students most optimal way of learning. Whoever cracks that code will literally boost humankind