When AI is your personal tutor with Sal Khan of Khan Academy
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Yeah. Hello and welcome to How I Built This Lab. I'm Guy Raj. The pandemic changed education forever. In just a few days, schools around the world had to move online. Teachers began teaching on Zoom, schools started issuing students laptops. And platforms like Google Classroom became indispensable.
Even with kids back in the classroom now, school is much more digital now than it was before 2020. And our guest today says that an even bigger change is on the way, a revolution that could transform the way kids learn even more than the pandemic did. SalCon has been on the show before. He's the founder of Khan Academy, an online teaching nonprofit. That went from pixelated YouTube videos To a massive platform with hundreds of free tutorials in dozens of languages.
and tens of millions of users every month. Right now, Sal and his team are working on a new learning platform. It's called Conmigo, which uses the generative AI technology behind OpenAI's chat GPT to help students with their schoolwork. And the people at Khan Academy think that Con Migo could act as a personal tutor for every student. and a teaching assistant for every educator, but we'll get there. First, let's go back to 2020 and the early months of the pandemic when Khan Academy saw millions of new students begin to use its materials. You know, the the spike was interesting because that first week where you had global shutdowns in the US and other places, we talked about it last time, our traffic went from about thirty million learning minutes per day to about ninety million learning minutes per day, pretty much within that week. Wow.
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