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Re: LearnVector – Andrew Ng's AI company building one‑to‑one learning experiences

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Post by fluoridation »

cyclopeanutopia wrote: post #70
EagnaIonat wrote: post #54

> 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.

Is it? People want to learn things they think they need. Is there a growing disconnection between what they think they need and what they actually need?

Re: LearnVector – Andrew Ng's AI company building one‑to‑one learning experiences

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Post by leafmeal »

senor_digimon wrote: post #56

I think this is a great space because almost any AI educational product can be measured and evaluated by the end user. For example, does the user improve from using your product and do they also believe they do, and do they also LIKE your product? If not, then they have every right to seek out the perfect AI educational product, of which, I expect a variety of. Personally, I believe the last 40 years or so of academi…

> It is not bold at at all to say K-12 will be eradicated. Higher Ed not so much because many were always buying the status of higher education anyway, so the status in itself still has value as a product.

It’s funny because I believe the opposite for both of these. Living with a teacher, I’ve learned that the most important objectives of k-12 education are teaching kids how to act like adults in society and behave around others. This is something I don’t think AI will ever be good at teaching.

A few other things, like learning to read and write, basic math, critical thinking are secondary, but important, but, I imagine not the best use case for AI either.

Beyond that however, you’re an adult equipped to take learning into your own hands with all the understanding and agency to make it happen. With the help of AI I don’t think there’s much you couldn’t learn, at least that doesn’t require human interaction (e.g. teaching).

Re: LearnVector – Andrew Ng's AI company building one‑to‑one learning experiences

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Post by fluoridation »

baq wrote: post #79
imjonse wrote: post #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 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.

I feel the exact opposite. I hand-write very slowly, so having to focus on that instead of the material is literally a distraction, compared to just typing out my thoughts.

The exception to this is if the focus of the learning is the writing in itself. Right now I'm learning kanji, so I need to draw them to focus on and memorize the shapes. That said, it doesn't have to be on paper. Dragging my finger on a tablet or moving a mouse are just as effective as using pen and paper.

Re: LearnVector – Andrew Ng's AI company building one‑to‑one learning experiences

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Post by LunaSea »

ndr42 wrote: post #73
cyclopeanutopia wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?"

In a world where most people learn to get a job, its less of a cynical question and more a practical question.

Re: LearnVector – Andrew Ng's AI company building one‑to‑one learning experiences

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Post by thedevilslawyer »

kovek wrote: post #57
EagnaIonat wrote: post #54

> 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 think learning from another human being live who can understand your confusingly articulated questions and who can adjust their answers for you, another human being, that's great.

Too costly.

Now its viable with AI to do it cheaply.

Re: LearnVector – Andrew Ng's AI company building one‑to‑one learning experiences

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Post by cyclopeanutopia »

fluoridation wrote: post #81
cyclopeanutopia wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Totally agree that the missing ingredient is making people want to learn. Which seems like something that gets harder every day.

Is it? People want to learn things they think they need. Is there a growing disconnection between what they think they need and what they actually need?

There is a growing lack of motivation.

Re: LearnVector – Andrew Ng's AI company building one‑to‑one learning experiences

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Post by j45 »

EagnaIonat wrote: post #67
ajpaulson wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What do you mean by “learning systems?”

I was referring to systems that are designed to teach people. SCORM for example.

Scorm is a zip file with html files to structure content any way you want with a minimal amount of mandatory standards.

It was never meant for assessment, nor is it secure. The creator of scorm said to not use it learning had to be secured.

It’s not a system or a framework in any meaningful or standardized sense, and more of a format for compiling content that can be copied between different places.

Re: LearnVector – Andrew Ng's AI company building one‑to‑one learning experiences

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Post by j45 »

EagnaIonat wrote: post #54

> 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…

They are solving the bloom sigma problem from where I see it.

It’s far from solved.

Re: LearnVector – Andrew Ng's AI company building one‑to‑one learning experiences

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Post by BloondAndDoom »

EagnaIonat wrote: post #54

> 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 started learn linear algebra and some mid-level math stuff couple of years back. While I really wanted to learn I still struggled to find a good learning path and use a product similar to Duolingo for math.

Eventually I learned some, then stopped using it and then forgotten all of it.

But my point is despite if me really want to learn I found it quite challenging to find learning path that I trusted to be good start for me.

I also need to make the point; I didn’t have 5 hours a day, so this 30-90 minutes in a good day endeavor.

There are still tons of things to solve in this area, how to cross to chasm, a learning path that’s right for you and how can you be sure of that. Learning something in one good 60m instead of 5 different videos and 5 hours. Etc. I think these problems are far from solved.

I also want to get fit but that doesn’t mean I’ll show up in my gym to workout everyday. So even when you really really want to learn you still need to stay motivated.

Re: LearnVector – Andrew Ng's AI company building one‑to‑one learning experiences

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Post by hahahaa »

EagnaIonat wrote: post #54

> 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…

AI isn't that general purpose. If There is a chef course curated / tested with Jamie Oliver I'll buy that over a Claude chat. And by "I" I mean regular folk who are most of the market every SaaS and AI wants to capture.
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