An Inspiration for All of Us
As we begin to use artificial intelligence (AI) more and more, problems with its accuracy and neutrality become increasingly important. A recent article in The Washington Post (Feb. 22) describes the downside of AI for education, and how one man changed that. When ChatGPT came out, it was feared that students would use it to cheat on their homework. It was also found to be very unreliable, giving incorrect information. One educator who was particularly upset by this was Sal Khan.
Sal Khan
He is the founder of the Khan Academy, a nonprofit online educational company that provides videos of lessons on various high school subjects. He began by creating math videos to help a young relative, then created a YouTube channel with the lessons. This evolved into the Khan Academy, which now has over 160 million users in over 190 countries. It's free.
A Visionary
Despite its faults, he saw the potential for AI to help students; it could personalize content and responses to each individual student. He had been trying to do that with the Khan Academy but saw that AI could make it easier and better. He just needed to fix it.
The Hard Work
He and his team spent hundreds of hours feeding correct information into ChatGPT to increase its knowledge and correct its mistakes, including its tendency to be subservient to the user and its tendency to provide answers. They taught it to become a tutor that guides the student into finding answers rather than providing them itself. This new entity is called Khanmigo. (Is this a meld of Khan and amigo?) It also helps teachers with lesson planning and other aspects of their work. As with ChatGPT, it can respond to requests to converse more or less formally, or even to be funny, which I assume kids would like. It costs $4/month.
Is He Unique?
I am impressed not only with what Khanmigo can do but with Sal Kahn, himself. From the beginning, he has demonstrated remarkable generosity, creativity, energy, and perseverance. Wouldn't it be great if we all had these qualities? But most people are weighed down by their discomforts and problems.
The Fix
An Inner Guide works silently, out of your awareness, to gradually end all of your discomforts and solve all of your problems. It frees you to exercise your own inherent generosity, creativity, energy and perseverance. What would you most like to accomplish? Your Inner Guide will enable you to achieve it.
If you don't yet have an Inner Guide, you can acquire one here: https://emotionalcomfort.com/blog/post/you-can-acquire-an-inner-guide-part-4
