AI and Education

Here's your daily briefing:

• Misha (a great follow) brings up an interesting point about AI and education. On the one hand, individualized education tailored to a child's specific talents and interests seems like a vast improvement over the one-size-fits-all industrial-era education system we have now. On the other hand, do we lose something when a society of people no longer have the same core educational experience?

Or is the above a total false dichotomy? It's certainly possible for students to be taught the same core competencies and have AI help fine-tune the particular skills or fields our individual personalities attract us toward.

Here's a more long-form talk about AI and education from a few years ago:

• AI continues its advancement into healthcare, now with the ability to improve prediction accuracy for certain heart conditions:

• As we discussed yesterday, specific use-cases for generative AI seem to be where most of the competition is happening right now. It's a good time to be a scrappy developer with an understanding of generative AI. Lots of money lying around. Hence, another competitor to Astria and Avatar AI:

What's crazy is how fast this is all happening. It already seems normal that there are several inexpensive options for custom avatars/PFPs made from your own image. How long (or how much money) would something like this have taken only a few months ago?

• And if you're wondering how all of these avatar-generators work, here's a great thread about DreamBooth:

• We were stoked to come across this tweet talking about Two Minute Papers, an epic AI-focused Youtube channel.

If you're looking to spend some of your Sunday learning more about AI, we recommend these videos:

• And in the spirit of AI education, we're pretty stoked to have stumbled upon Lex Fridman's MIT lectures on deep learning while checking out the videos above. Pretty wild that you can cook breakfast in your underwear and attend MIT simultaneously these days. What a time to be alive!

To see the full contents of the course, check out the Deep Learning page at MIT.

"a realistic photograph, 1950s era, students in a classrooom, sitting in rows at desks, watching a humanoid robot point to something on the chalkboard"