The AI tutor Khanmigo, demonstrated by Sal Khan. Rather than AI destroying education, AI will turbocharge it, by giving every student on the planet an artificially intelligent but amazing personal tutor. And give every teacher on the planet an amazing, artificially intelligent teaching assistant. According to Khan, 1-on-1 tutoring boosts educational results by 2 sigmas, but most students have not had access to a 1-on-1 tutor. That's about to change.

He demos a simple math equation solving problem and shows Khanmigo is not a cheating tool. When the student says, "Tell me the answer," it says, "I'm your tutor. What do you think is the next step for solving the problem?"

If the student makes a mistake, not only does it notice the mistake, it asks the student to explain their reasoning. It guesses what is probably the misconception in that student's mind (they didn't use the distributive property).

He demos a computer programming exercise on Khan Academy to show it understands the code and the full context of what the student is doing. (The code draws elipses but it understands that those ellipses combine to draw clouds.)

It can engage in Socratic dialogue, if the student asks, for example, "the age-old question, 'Why do I need to learn this?'". It can connect the lesson to knowledge outside the lesson. It can act as a school guidance counselor.

Rather than writing "for" you it can write "with" you and teach writing.

In "teacher" mode, when you say, "Tell me the answer", instead of refusing and going into tutoring mode, not only will it tell you the answer but it will give you explanations and advice on how best to teach it. As such it helps teachers create lesson plans and progress reports, and figure out how to grade the students.

How AI could save (not destroy) education | Sal Khan | TED

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