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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

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Is it only me or the website looks vibe coded ? the output feels like a standard claude template.

It is. I just wish people would throw a plain text page with a paragraph instead of this because you bet I am just scrolling through it without reading as soon as Claudism appears

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

#52

This looks awesome. I'm very excited about how learning will evolve harnessing AI. I'm also a huge fan of Andrew Ng. I wish they hadn't raised so much money. I'm not sure "large funding round" sets up the right dynamic for what he's trying to do.

> This looks awesome.

I'm curious: what looks awesome? The website was created with Claude. There's no detail about what the actual product/service is and how it will work. Everything is a big idea/promise with no specificity.

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

May I ask why? If by "not the same" you meant: AI is not at the level of a good human educator, it is a fair argument - but not many humans can afford to have a one-to-one human educator either. Perhaps I am a bit more optimistic, but if AI could give me, let's say, 90% of an average lecturer's capability, at 10% of the price or even less, that is probably extremely valuable. (For one, I would certainly be interested…

Moreover, there are areas of expertise that are very hard to reach without special help. I have a PhD in computer science. Earning that degree was a major time commitment, and it gave me close contact with one of the few experts in a niche area. I absolutely loved the experience. But I did not learn everything I wanted to know. And I can’t afford to take a time-out to go to grad school again for a second PhD. On the…

>And it found longstanding misunderstandings I had, buttressing its answers against my skepticism with citations to original work.

Did you check those citations to make sure they actually contained the information they were being cited for? Because I've asked difficult questions too and have had mixed results. I would never trust an LLM as a teacher. They make stuff up all the time, and when you're learning you're in the very worst position to be checking the information you're given.

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

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> 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 people who don't want to learn, that has value.

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

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> 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…

What do you mean by “learning systems?”

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

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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 academia has failed at creating the proper reactive curriculum for students, so I'm nearly positive anyone that enters the AI education space has a very good chance of proving to their end users that they can out-teach ... I don't know, the entire NY Board of Education, for example.

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.

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

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> 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.

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

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post #57

> 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.

I agree, at least in that we need more human contact, not less.

But I will say Gemini / Claude have both been surprisingly good at understanding my half-assed attempts to put a complicated question into a coherent sentence.

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