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JUNE 4, 2024

Should AI chatbots be used as tutors? That question has been in the air since ChatGPT was released in late 2022, and since then many developers have experimented with using the latest generative AI technology as a tutor. The book is called “ Brave New Words: How AI Will Revolutionize Education (and Why That's a Good Thing). ”

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JANUARY 17, 2025

Topics around how AI fits into education continued to draw listeners this year, including our interview with Sal Khan, founder of the nonprofit Khan Academy, about his groups new AI chatbot tutor. Should Chatbots Tutor? Dissecting That Viral AI Demo With Sal Khan and His Son Should AI chatbots be used as tutors?

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JULY 2, 2024

Sal Khan, founder of Khan Academy, recently posted a video demo of him using a prototype of his organization’s chatbot Khanmigo, which has these features, to tutor his teenage son. The technology shown in the demo is not yet available, and is at least six months to a year away, according to Khan.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2022

My then-employer was part of the growing education industry in the Philippines. Likewise, this trend took off in China and grew to be worth many billions of dollars, thanks to companies like VIPKid that eventually hired upward of 100,000 foreign educators—mostly Americans—to tutor millions of kids in China.

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MAY 2, 2024

It will actually create more opportunities and free our teachers and counselors from bureaucracy and allow them to do the social, interactive activity that builds on the promise of public education.” So what, specifically, does the system do? That’s the part of the system leaders are referring to when they say it can “accelerate” learning.

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OCTOBER 16, 2023

AI-driven avatars and virtual tutors enable personalized learning experiences , catering to individual learning styles. Geographical barriers are dissolved , granting global access to high-quality education for students from diverse backgrounds. This is history in the making, and it is exciting to be a part of it!

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NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Artificial intelligence will supply every student on the planet a talented personal tutor and every teacher an amazing teaching assistant, Khan has said. Take AI tutoring service Thetawise, which estimates that it is used by nearly 143,000 students. But some question whether these tools really could be such excellent math tutors.

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