Andrej Karpathy, a former Tesla AI director and OpenAI co-founder, announced on July 16 the launch of Eureka Labs, a startup aimed at developing “a new kind of school that is AI native.”
The company’s goal is to leverage generative AI to create virtual teaching assistants, that can help students learn, no matter where they are or what language they speak.
Eureka Labs plans to use AI tech to overcome traditional barriers in education, such as geography and language without losing the personal touch of in-person learning.
Karpathy noted that recent advancements in generative AI have made this educational model feasible, addressing the scarcity of expert educators who can provide personalized instruction at scale.
The startup’s first offering will be LLM101n, an undergraduate AI course. This program will guide students through the process of training an AI similar to the course’s AI Teaching Assistant. Available online, the course will include both digital and physical cohorts, allowing students to progress in small groups.
Karpathy explained that while human educators will continue to design course materials, they will be supported and scaled by AI Teaching Assistants optimized to guide students through the content.
With his background in AI from Tesla and OpenAI, Karpathy brings a lot of knowledge to this new project. He hopes that if Eureka succeeds, “It will be easy for anyone to learn anything, expanding education in both reach (a large number of people learning something) and extent (any one person learning a large amount of subjects, beyond what may be possible today unassisted)”.
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