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“そして、私は次の三年から五年以内に、ニル・スティブンソンが、 千九百九十四年に書いたことが、ほぼ全て現実になると思います。”

“五年後にはほとんどの教師が生成案を使って授業計画、採点、進行状況報告、評価基準作成を行うのは安全だと思います。小さい、すでに来年の後半にそれが実現する可能性があります。”

“I could imagine in five or 10 years, you're gonna get your best college recommendation from Conmigo.”

“At Khan World School, actually, we just documented, we were almost embarrassed to say the results. You know, Steve Levitt of Freakonomics fame, he actually looked at it himself because he was like, this, is this real? And he's like, oh, it's real. I mean, thes…”

“I think it will be safe to say that in five years, almost all teachers will be using generative AI for lesson planning, grading, Progress reports, rubric creation.”

“I think, I don't think generative AI dramatically changes what was already going to happen to universities.”

“What we saw in twenty-twenty-one is that the students who put in an average of 15 minutes on Khan Academy a week in a school setting, they actually saw no COVID learning loss, And that students who put in 30 to 60 minutes, they accelerated almost 40% faster th…”

“Essentially, old Khan Academy or base Khan Academy trying to get to that first standard deviation. And, but now with the AI, we can go to that second standard deviation.”

“A majority of minority-majority schools, so that's a mouthful, but a majority of minority-majority schools don't offer courses like Algebra II, Physics, Et cetera. Not to even mention things like AP courses or IB courses.”

“You know, there's a world now where you can talk to historical characters, and we're probably three to five years away where you could share a room with Benjamin Franklin or Julius Caesar or Cleopatra and immerse yourself. It'll, it'll be literally the holodec…”

“And then I think in three to five years, yeah, you're going to be able to video conference with your tutor, which then makes it like a real thing that you can have a long journey with.”

“I think you're going to have a world where the very elite universities People join those. Yes. It's almost like you're joining a cast. You're joining a club. So I think they're going to be fine. I think that, you know, whether or not they can justify the ROI, …”

“Within a month or two, 40% of teachers were using this very imperfect tool for themselves for things like lesson planning, and students were already using it”

“In a couple of months we're going to be launching something, we're going to initially do it for college essays, which is a whole other, this is the first college admission cycle in the chat GPT era, so it's going to be very interesting.”

“And that's because the average American student learns about .6 to .7 grade levels per year. Which, yeah, after 12 years, you're at a seventh grade level.”

“Students put in 30 to 60 minutes a week, so not like a huge amount. They're accelerating 40, 50%.”

“And then I think you start to merge these things with platforms like you're hearing, and it becomes completely immersive. You can go to ancient Rome, you could talk to Caesar, you could talk to Cleopatra It, it's like the holodeck on Star Trek, and I honestly …”

“And by fall of 2010, both the Google and the Gates Foundation each gave about two million dollars. So we had a four million dollar initial funding for that first two years to hire up a team, internationalize, and start scaling Khan Academy.”

“And at Khan Lab School, we've consistently seen it, you know, at least 1.5 to two grade levels in a year. And this is before, before generative AI.”

“They hadn't even finished the first training run of GPT-IV, but they said, you know, we think it's going to be done in about two weeks, and we think This is going to be the model that really wakes up people to the power of generative AI. We want two reasons wh…”

“It turns out that Bill Gates, when he saw GPT-III, he's like, oh, this is cool. But we all know GPT-III really didn't have a good handle on knowledge, and he told the OpenAI team, he's like, I'll be impressed if this could pass the AP Biology exam. He literall…”

“None of the interactions, and this is to credit to open AI, none of the interactions are being used to train the AI.”

“And don't let fear get in the way of trying something out, because if we do that, all that's going to happen is all of our kids are going to benefit from all of this. I'm not worried about them, but then the other kids are not, and then that's going to create …”

“And so my best guess of where, let's say, term papers or homework is going to have to evolve to is, especially in something like writing, you're going to have to do some in-class writing.”

“It costs On the order of 60, seventy million a year to run Khan Academy, both to, you know, just our server costs are six, seven million dollars a year, and then obviously all of the engineers, et cetera”

“Conmigo has a very real marginal cost to it. It costs on the order of let's call it 10 to 15 dollars per month.”

“10 minutes later, I'm driving into my driveway, and I get a text message from Ann, and it says, you really need to be supporting yourself. I've just wired you a 100,000 dollars.”

“And the same Nadia who was only a few months ago put into a remedial class was now put into an advanced math class.”

“And by 2007, 2008, it was in the tens of thousands of people. And by 2009, it was in the hundreds of thousands of people were using it on our, on a regular basis.”

“By this point, have been rejected by so many major foundations, probably about 20 of them,”

“I'm driving into my driveway, and I get a text message from Ann, and it says, you really need to be supporting yourself. I've just wired you a 100,000 dollars.”

“Over time, the relationship has evolved where they actually pay us resources to create free test prep which is, you know, that's the type of revenue I love because it's, it helps sustain us, but it's free to the student.”

“有名な話としては、トゥータズンセブン年に最初にKana Academyを利用したのは、シドウェル・フレンズ校でした。これは、DCリレイミリエリトナ学校でありジョーウィン議員や大統領の子供たちが通っていますしかし実際には五年生の教室でジョン・モールウェイの先生が最初に使っていました彼は私が作成していた自家製のソフトウェアを利用していました”

“We have Khan Academy kids, which is used by nearly two million kids, primarily in America. It's actually kind of turning into like the Sesame Street of this generation. Really great efficacy studies. Kids are spending an average of 90 minutes a month on it, wh…”

“If you ask Conmigo hey, tell me the answer, it will not tell you the answer, but say I'm your tutor, it'll act Socratic and say, well, what do you think is the next step?”

“You know, people have looked at the NAEP results, and I think it was Detroit had three percent of kids, and I think they were eighth graders who were proficient in math, three percent. It's like, wow, the pandemic was pretty bad. Well, before the pandemic was …”

“Our traffic went from about thirty million learning minutes per day to about ninety million learning minutes per day, pretty much within that week.”

“Especially in those early days, it was Still pretty bad at math.”

“We now have about a million students in districts where they're paying on the order of about 10 dollars per student per year, To get all of these other things.”

“By fall of 2009, there were several 100,000 folks who were using The stuff I was making on a regular basis.”

“By this point have been rejected by so many major foundations, probably about 20 of them.”

“And by fall of 2010, both the Google and the Gates Foundation each gave about two million dollars. So we had a four million dollar initial funding for that first two years to hire up a team, internationalize, and start scaling Khan Academy.”

“Now, you know, we don't have a lot of folks making videos. I still make A lot of them. I pretty much make all of the math and science video. And then we have a few other folks who are doing some history videos and some language arts videos.”

“I had actually made some SAT videos for Navia and my cousins. I actually went through the SAT practice book, and I did every problem in the book on video for my cousins, so that it was a 400 something problems, and I was afraid that the college board was going…”

“You know, we normally see about, pre-COVID, it was about twenty million students were coming per month, and that increased to thirty million, and then they were also spending 50% more Time on the site. and then, you know, our registrations went through the ro…”

“I was the lead growler of a death metal band.”

“I pretty much make all of the math and science video, and then we have a few other folks who are doing some history videos and some language arts videos.”

“I actually stopped registrations on that at 10,000, because once again, it was crashing my 30 dollar a month web hosting, and my cousins weren't able to use it.”