Former Tesla, OpenAI Exec Andrej Karpathy Founds 'AI Native' Education Startup (cointelegraph.com) 14
In a post on X today, Andrej Karpathy announced that he is "starting an AI+Education company called Eureka Labs." Karpathy taught deep learning for computer vision at Stanford University, left to co-found OpenAI in 2015 and then moved on to direct artificial intelligence for Tesla Autopilot until 2022. He then migrated back to OpenAI to lead a small team related to ChatGPT. CoinTelegraph reports: Eureka is creating virtual teaching assistants powered by generative AI to bring top courses to vastly more students without sacrificing the personalized interactions typical of in-person learning. The startup's ultimate goal is to bring elite educators and coursework to students throughout the world, regardless of barriers such as geography and language. [...] Eureka's first product will be an undergraduate AI course called LLM101n. The course will guide students through the process of training an AI similar to the AI Teaching Assistant. Materials will be available online but will also include digital and physical cohorts, allowing students to progress through the course in small groups. "The teacher still designs the course materials, but they are supported, leveraged and scaled with an AI Teaching Assistant who is optimized to help guide the students through them," Karpathy explained.
"If we are successful, it will be easy for anyone to learn anything, expanding education in both reach (a large number of people learning something) and extent (any one person learning a large amount of subjects, beyond what may be possible today unassisted)."
"If we are successful, it will be easy for anyone to learn anything, expanding education in both reach (a large number of people learning something) and extent (any one person learning a large amount of subjects, beyond what may be possible today unassisted)."
You Know What (Score:2)
How come there's no AI to help you find a job? Seems to me that would be the one thing that would make AI indispensable.
But for some reason, all AI can do is take your job. Wonder why?
One might speculate its because some people derive raw intense sexual arousal from other people losing their jobs, marriages, homes and money.
But I'm sure that's just a coincidence.
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You can use AI to game your resume to get a job.
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Learn to mine coal.
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The current US education system is broken (Score:3)
https://www.illinoispolicy.org... [illinoispolicy.org]
Something radical needs to be done to help the kids.
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Unfortunately, the US only knows how to punish those who fail to educate others.
Schools/Colleges - obsolete premodern tech (Score:4, Interesting)
PRE-2000 SYSTEM:
K12 gets everyone the basic reading/writing/math skills they might need for any job or life experience. For those who want more specialized jobs, or a professional "career", or who can afford the luxury of learning for fun, there's college. Our taxes pay for your K12 basics. Taxes and your parents will (partially) help (some of) you with college. The rest of your life after that is on you -- but if you decided you don't actually like what you're doing those first 5-7 years you can keep doing it while you work on reskilling, which most of you will only HAVE to do once or twice in your adult life. And when you do want to reskill, take a couple years to learn, go to your local community college for a certificate, go to grad school for that extra income boost, study for a certification like HR or PM. There's time! Find yourself, figure out what you want, then settle in.
POST-2015 SYSTEM:
Churn and hustle are permanent. Entire industries pop up and disappear like quantum particles. Your K12 education gave you the 20th century basics of reading/writing/math, but now we have software that can pass the GED. And college grads aren't significantly better - that was a gigantic public-funds boondoggle bubble that has now popped. Unless life expectancy drops to 40 or the population triples in 10 years, we simply cannot have three generations in a row graduate college with degrees that qualify them to... teach college. So the first 5-7 years of your adulthood are on you, and also the rest of your life is on you, and also by the time you go back to college or a trade school and reskill, you only get another 5-7 years before you have to reskill again.
The problem with this new reality is our education infrastructure is utterly incapable of keeping up. K12 and community college staff/faculty/administrators cannot themselves up-knowledge and up-skill fast enough to create worthwhile certificates and curriculum. Even at large well-funded universities that have the financial resources to do so, the bureaucratic steps in creating a new discipline/degree that meets accreditation standards, any state oversight, and complies with hundreds of federal mandates and initiatives, is a multi-year process.
tl;dr You can shorten the upskilling interval for workers as long the new interval isn't shorter than the interval needed to upskill the upskilling resources available in your society. It is this part which is now broken. At some point very
Public schools, large accredited baccalaureate programs are barely able to keep up with the past 20 years. They will not be able to keep up with the next 20. But corporations can. Education is a multi-billion-dollar industry ripe for disruptive monetization. Some business/tech bros right now are spinning up the basis of the company that your grandkids will one day "credential" from. Wealthy folks can still send their kids to Vassar for status if they want.
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At some point very soon, (sooner than 20 years) a basic K12 education and even a college degree will cease being an effective on-ramp to accelerate you to match speed with the economy. Society can't afford to have spend the first 18-22 years of your life consuming resources, if you can't start paying your own way and producing because as soon as you take off the cap and gown you have to start all over again, again.
Public schools, large accredited baccalaure
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The solution to the current systemic issues in education are not financial interests, they are the direct cause of the issues. Education is supposed to be an investment for the future, not a guaranteed profit on this quarter's balance sheets. Turning education into the latter, as has been championed by politicians like you for decades, is directly responsible for things like the Student Debt Crisis, the devaluation of college degrees, lowest common denomina
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What you appear to be replying to is the opposite of what I'm saying. I'm not saying school is dumb and only corporations should lead us forward. I'm saying the "traditional" part of traditional schooling was built around education as a heavily rigid multidisciplinary scholastic process that takes two decades to deliver its first intended outcome, and many years to do subsequent re
Kind of offtopic... (Score:3)
... but when Karpathy was working at Tesla on Autopilot - e.g. his job was helping cars find paths through the world to reach their destination - his name was an aptronym [wikipedia.org] ;)
May, might, could, perhaps, one day... (Score:2)
They're making the same kinds of claims based on the same assumptions & misunderstandings about what learning & teaching actually are. I don't think the IT world will ever really understand what it is that teachers do or why machines won't be able to do it for the foreseeable future.