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
#2Edtech has historically not had amazing venture outcomes compared to saas, ads, rockets, etc.
Given how much people spend on education, there’s no reason AI education software wont be a huge market.
And there’s few people better suited than Andrew Ng to execute this
Re: LearnVector – Andrew Ng's AI company building one‑to‑one learning experiences
#3Wait, when you say one-to-one you mean AI to Human? That’s not the same, I’m sorry.
Re: LearnVector – Andrew Ng's AI company building one‑to‑one learning experiences
#4I'm working on a much smaller idea, but so far it's just me using it for grad school, and a friend using it for his master ciccerone prep. It has been really useful in the class I used it for while building it. Looking forward to playing with more as I start my fall semester(UIUC CS 425, Distributed Systems).
I need to get some model pricing evals in place to see if I can use open weight models to get it cheap enough, since it's just me and not VC money. The real product potential seems to be getting reusable materials like cert prep, continuing education for careers that require it, and the like. But then you're fighting incumbents that fiercely control their moats.
Re: LearnVector – Andrew Ng's AI company building one‑to‑one learning experiences
#5I'm working on a much smaller idea, but so far it's just me using it for grad school, and a friend using it for his master ciccerone prep. It has been really useful in the class I used it for while building it. Looking forward to playing with more as I start my fall semester(UIUC CS 425, Distributed Systems). I need to get some model pricing evals in place to see if I can use open weight models to get it cheap enough…
It's funny that AI even gave us similar themes.
Re: LearnVector – Andrew Ng's AI company building one‑to‑one learning experiences
#6Wait, when you say one-to-one you mean AI to Human? That’s not the same, I’m sorry.
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Re: LearnVector – Andrew Ng's AI company building one‑to‑one learning experiences
#7Ive actually started trying to build games, starting with Roblox, to eventually build a catalog for this same problem. 1:1 learning in the future is probably going to be 80 - 90% gamified because people like playing games. Spent the last 6 months traveling Asia and everybody was playing games on their phones...everywhere. The first game I released is Math Cadet, basically an adventure game to build up math skills for kids elementary and middle school. I have another one in the chamber thats more science related. Any feedback would be great: https://www.roblox.com/games/129132556457079/Math-Cadet-Adve...
Re: LearnVector – Andrew Ng's AI company building one‑to‑one learning experiences
#8Somebody here posted about a Socratic method skill for Claude (or whatever your LLM of choice is). I’ve found this to be fantastic. Dropped in a dense PDF about Linear Algebra, Postgres (those are the two I’ve gotten into so far). It’s basically just a skill.md that reads, “Here’s a document, give me an opening statement about the material and ask me a question. As I provide answers, guide me to simpler or more complex areas of the topic. Something something Socratic method.” Works great.
Re: LearnVector – Andrew Ng's AI company building one‑to‑one learning experiences
#9Wait, when you say one-to-one you mean AI to Human? That’s not the same, I’m sorry.
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 in learning new things that otherwise wouldn't make sense financially)
Re: LearnVector – Andrew Ng's AI company building one‑to‑one learning experiences
#10Somebody here posted about a Socratic method skill for Claude (or whatever your LLM of choice is). I’ve found this to be fantastic. Dropped in a dense PDF about Linear Algebra, Postgres (those are the two I’ve gotten into so far). It’s basically just a skill.md that reads, “Here’s a document, give me an opening statement about the material and ask me a question. As I provide answers, guide me to simpler or more compl…
That's super interesting - will have to take a look into this!