Meet Khanmigo: The student tutor AI being tested in school districts | 60 Minutes

[@joelxart]

Khan is one of the most influential persons in the school education in last 20 years!

[@cylurian]

It's fascinating to see how the narrative surrounding Sal Khan has evolved over time. For years, the story was that he started as a humble KZbinr, creating educational videos to help his cousins with their studies. This grassroots origin story resonated deeply with people, embodying a relatable, selfless mission to make learning accessible. However, as Khan Academy grew and attracted major support, including grants from figures like Bill Gates, the focus of his introduction shifted. Now, much of the emphasis is on his prestigious academic background from MIT, lending additional credibility to his expertise. While both narratives are true, the change highlights how stories can be reframed to suit evolving audiences and objectives, but there's something truly remarkable about remembering the humble beginnings that made the whole journey possible.

[@Franchisco7]

Glad to hear its free for all teachers. Those are who need it first and the most

[@SankalpaTutor]

The school district have to pay $15 per student. That's not free , taxpayers money, taxes from teachers salary too.

[@Muffinman9]

@@SankalpaTutor $15 per student per year is a TINY amount of money compared to the amount of time and materials a product like this can save.

[@elmogomez145]

@@Muffinman9 Right, They are actually saving money and time.

[@mcflyin]

@@elmogomez145 It got a simple, elementary math standard wrong. This will create more time to undo any mistakes.

[@leomajor88]

@@SankalpaTutorThat sounds amazing and very cost effective. I totally support this as a tool

[@Cbaroglio]

This is incredible. As a former teacher, I would have loved this additional resource. I utilized all of the tech available at the time (up through 2016). I also trained my 4th grade students to utilize both software and hardware in the classroom (Google products, Khan Academy, tablets, PC’s, Padlet student response system, etc). Thank you, Sal Khan and team, for all of your hard work. Students are benefitting tremendously from all that you are creating.

[@sco0tpa]

Seeing these young students talk so positively about learning gives me great hope for their future. Sal Khan has done an incredible amount to democratize education across the world. His impact is hard to fathom.

[@maureenjais-mick8114]

What I have appreciated about computer tutors to teach students who may be a little slow, is that the computer NEVER loses patience, never sighs and says, "Do it again . . " etc. Students are never embarassed.

[@ZambeziSentinel]

I find the best thing about AI is how it makes you think in a structured way

[@rarephoenix]

Is that really a good thing? I love being scatter brained. Creativity is born out of chaos. ❤

[@LaurenCotton-p8q]

A list of juice world would be good

[@time_lightsout_1186]

​@rarephoenix agreed as an artist and an electrical engineering student. I'm very unique in that im a artist and a logical person at the same time. But rarely do the 2 sides of my brain combine into a logical creative idea but those ideas are typically the best just super rare. Being creative in my opinion involves just doing stuff with some thinking involved but not a lot. While logical stuff is more about thinking before doing so you ethier do before you think completely or think before you do completely.

[@johnyoung1601]

OMG, how du can you be?

[@raoultesla2292]

Yes being of all the same mindset of belonging is productive.

[@johnmclaughlin9674]

I’ve noticed AI only gives you good if information if you ask the right questions

[@brucehicks5817]

Very true. The output is only as good as the quality of input.

[@johnmclaughlin9674]

@ a concern is if AI gets the wrong information from the masses it’s learning incorrectly

[@nowayangelo]

Engineering good prompts is the best way to get the best results from AI

[@batlhalifijulius4167]

Prompt engineering is going to be part of curriculum in the near future

[@compton8301]

Even when you ask right questions, it can still hallucinate.

[@nz_proud]

I like how it is very targeted to the student's individual capabilities. There is no way a teacher can do that with 30 kids in the room. But I do believe that teachers will still be needed to facilitate the learning process.

[@kevinmoore4807]

They did it thirty years ago.. .WTF.

[@skizztrizz4453]

I had a Casio watch in the 4th grade with a calculator.👀🤦🏾‍♂️😂😂🤣

[@kellymoses8566]

I thought my TI-80 calculator was amazing.

[@rarephoenix]

Me too. ❤ If it was back in the day, we also had a lot more resources in public schools. I'd rather pay for more humans in the building than robots and iPads and other tech crap. The people that created all this tech (like myself) were raised without it. To think we need it to advance is ridiculous. I'd prefer zero tech until high school. Let's teach our kids social skills before computer skills so just maybe they'll have some empathy before deploying AI against us all. ❤

[@rarephoenix]

@@kellymoses8566 haha still the same price

[@HelamanGile]

😂

[@skizztrizz4453]

@@kellymoses8566 Man, I was sweating when our calculus teacher said that we had to purchase a TI-82.🤔🤣🤣

[@walthaas9217]

This is the beginning of a revolution that will change the world. I feel like I'm watching the first railroad train 200 years ago. In a few years every kid will have the kind of private tutor that only the rich can afford now.

[@Kvltklassik]

I worry that the rich will still own all the AIs, so they will decide what our kids are and aren't taught. Khan Academy on the face of it is a good organization but I can't honestly say who the CEO is, where he came from, what his goals and ambitions are in life etc. (edit: A year ago the CEO was doing a TED talk on how AI in education is the best thing ever. Today he's selling an AI to educators. Follow the money. This is not about the betterment of children, nor about educating the public on AI.) But what about when Walmart AI comes out, and Starbucks AI, and now your kid at public school is being taught by the SamAI Sam's Club assistant, who teaches your child the importance of buying at big chain stores.

[@orlandowae]

Well said.

[@stevrgrs]

@@Kvltklassikthat’s true but the open source community is already huge . Once smaller models are made that can run on average hardware without the NEED for OpenAi servers or others processing the data it’ll be golden. As of yet, OpenAI, Google, Meta, etc could cut the tap and we’d all be without our precious AI :P

[@nunyanunya4147]

YEAH and good ones will only be afforded by the rich... just like now! this is nothing new... this is nothing revolutionary. this is just something shiney

[@SeanFlora]

Not quite. Private tutors are humans who can care about the kid, and give encouragement, talk about real life, and help boost the kid's social skills and confidence. I'm not knocking this tool at all! But it is not identical to a human.

[@denslon_eng]

It just makes students more separated from each other. What we really need to bring to schools is peer to peer teaching, when students use concepts they learn to teach their friends.

[@CryptoDiaries]

I have learned more from Khan than any other online educational platform; he does God's work.

[@defheescollard-sx4nh]

When I was in the university for business course, I found Khan Academy and I still use it up to this days..

[@justinjbenjamin]

I want to see a confidence score in its answers. If a student doesn’t know what is wrong. How will they know what they’re learning is correct?

[@francescaa8331]

👍👍👍

[@theBear89451]

LLMs only do confidence scores for a single next token. They don’t pick the highest scoring token because the response would be repetitive.

[@neonmarblerust]

They won’t know, and lots of kids will be taught junk

[@nickrobinson7096]

I don’t know why but it seems to be rather accurate at the school level. Perhaps because it’s so well covered as it is. It’s where there is less data available that it starts to hallucinations

[@marieazrak1951]

My dad recently introduced me to Khan Academy, and I am learning to do coding, which is part of computer software development, which is what my dad did for a living

[@sco0tpa]

Brilliant. Great dad! Keep learning.

[@cylurian]

The future of education seems to be shifting dramatically, and not always for the better. Instead of nurturing qualified teachers who inspire, guide, and engage students directly, we might find classrooms filled with facilitators merely managing AI-driven software. It's a sobering thought-trading the irreplaceable connection between a passionate teacher and their students for the cold efficiency of machines. Imagine a world where classrooms are bursting at the seams, and the magic of individualized attention fades away. True engagement, the kind that sparks curiosity and fosters a lifelong love of learning, could be replaced by impersonal algorithms. What a loss it would be not to invest in smaller class sizes, where every student could be truly seen, heard, and challenged by a teacher who understands their unique potential. Teachers are more than deliverers of content; they are mentors, motivators, and role models. No AI can replicate that. This trajectory, if left unchallenged, could rob future generations of the transformative power of human connection in education.

[@puddinjr1121]

Kids will ALWAYS be one step ahead of this! They have a knack for thinking outside of the box and finding way to skirt the system. If you ain’t cheating, you ain’t trying!!!🤷🏻‍♂️

[@jcortella]

Math teacher here - The use of ChatGPT and other online tools is killing student thinking. They look for the shortest way to complete a job. I have high schools students who, literally, cannot compute 2x8 without a calculator. AI is going to destroy critical thinking and problem solving in classrooms.

[@abebe7325]

Mathematics skills comes with hand & pen practice and repeating right? how does it help their problem solving skill if they go fast to ai for answer without putting presurring their minds a little

[@aliettienne2907]

6:03 Khanmigo is leading the way in exploring digital teaching skills with Ai technology (education will never be the same again, how awesome) 6:22 Wow 😮! This is very innovative! Getting direct feedback of the students performance in detail form is useful and innovative. This methodology is the future of teaching. 9:57 This Vision capability of Chatgpt is revolutionary (it's like sci-fi stuff) and very creative. Imagine parents using Chatgpt to monitor and gauge their children's overall progress in their education (at least for those who are concerned) at home after a school day.

[@BreakingGaia]

This is amazing! I had a hard time learning the way schools teach and I use khan academy as an adult to relearn fundamental skills I never learned properly. If they open this up to parents of neurodivergent children, this can be a game changer. I needed help learning the material a different way and this would have been something that answered all my questions.

[@TheTechGuy-nn4zp]

I’m in uni now and still find myself going back to khan academy not because my teacher cant teach me but because i am a student among 300 others they dont have time to teach every single one and i cant afford a tutor so stuff like this is fantastic

[@bigtoepapa]

I was placed in the corner of the classroom facing the wall...... I actually think the AI won't try to do that. Wow!

[@JaiberthPorras]

Khanmino also did not notice that it was an impossible triangle

[@TellyMan200]

Amazing, the use cases of AI is just mind blowing, this is how proper AI with guard rails and models that are trained well can help students

[@AnthonyLopez-di5vv]

It’s still very much a work in progress…so we’re trying it on hundreds of children to see what happens!

[@ThatTimeTheThingHappened]

It’s wild to be person that already knows these topics and see ai written content and see the amount of errors it makes

[@FollowTheJohn]

There is a GREAT side of AI. That is how I will embrace it.

[@noahlegall9478]

This was an amazing ad 60 minutes! Great job!

[@ODjuliarso]

Thank you for this inpspiring episode @AndersonCooper and Khanmigo ❤👏

[@jonathankelly1800]

Insightful; great to see traction here: #personalised learning ! Well done tie up @Chat GPT, @Khan Academy..showing us different learning potentials here…..😊

[@News360HDTV]

This was an amazing ad 60 minutes!

[@nazimg1]

AI or no AI, Khan Academy is the single most useful app for students and teachers.

[@toriklein4891]

The ability to see the footprints of their work is lights out

[@franzofmotion]

"How about the liver - give it a shot." 😂 This shot🥊 or that shot 🥃 ?

[@jdthebomb]

FINALLY, AI is a tool that teachers should teach students how to use. On the other hand, teachers will use this to assign too much work for students.

[@thedude2509]

Fr google ai explained certain steps better than my professor… will be revolutionary

[@user-yf1ml8jt3i]

Is there a privacy issue about tracking the students interaction with the ai? And can students opt out of the tracking part ?

[@abigailandino6251]

Integrity is paramount. That’s the long game. If people trust that you have the best intentions……..they will most definitely put HUGE effort into understanding massive failure. Anywho …… Cooper always had the best shows ❤

[@davidforthoffer9180]

Considering that AI software such as ChatGPT comes with disclaimers including, (a) Its results may not be truthful and (b) you agree to not sue them, I think AI should be the starting point for research, and not the truth.

[@courtneyb6154]

You're talking about two completely different things. ChatGPT is a general-purpose AI designed to handle a wide range of topics and conversations, whereas Kahnmigo is a specialized educational tool integrated into Khan Academy. Kahnmigo focuses on personalized learning, aligning closely with vetted educational content, while ChatGPT draws from a broader dataset and serves as a versatile tool for various tasks. Kahnmigo is tailored for accuracy within an educational framework, whereas ChatGPT is better suited as a starting point for exploration or brainstorming. That said, it’s important to recognize that not all AI should be dismissed as 'just a starting point' for research. Tools like Kahnmigo, built with domain-specific focus and vetted resources, are designed to offer reliable outputs in their specialized fields. While skepticism toward general-purpose AI like ChatGPT is valid, especially given its broader scope and potential for inaccuracies, domain-specific AI can often represent established truths. AI's role isn't simply to begin a process but to collaborate in uncovering reliable answers when used thoughtfully and with proper oversight.

[@davidforthoffer9180]

@@courtneyb6154 Are you saying that Kahnmigo guarantees its output is truthful, and they will accept liability if its output is not truthful?

[@jaaan2914]

@@courtneyb6154 Kahnmigo IS ChatGPT. There is no difference. Maybe try and understand how LLMs work? They're just giving it massive prompts to try and minimize hallucinations and erroneous answers, but since that is inherent in the training data and is just how LLMs work, it's unavoidable.

[@davidforthoffer9180]

@ I’m talking about two AI programs. Are you saying Kaynmigo claims to always give truthful answers, and the company accepts liability if it’s not truthful?

[@theBear89451]

@@courtneyb6154 I’m pretty sure Khanmigo is just a prompt wrapper for gpt-4o.

[@kellymoses8566]

From birth to 18 a child could ask an LLM a million questions.

[@swallowedinthesea11]

From birth to 18 a child will likely watch Pewdiepie and Tiktok.

[@DivinesLegacy]

@@swallowedinthesea11pewdiepie? This isn’t 2013 anymore bro.

[@mk500]

What about the 30% of the time it teaches the student incorrect information (with confidence)? When they grow up and use that “knowledge” to make important decisions, what will happen to society? Don’t just trust the little snippets you see here; try it yourself in a topic you have personal expertise on and see what happens.

[@krox477]

I would love to see how this turns out in 10 years

[@AlexP-yb7gh]

Release the entire interview unedited with the CEO of Ripple

[@marlinthecreative118]

I retired from teaching about a year before AI was rolling out to the public. I wish I had access to this. The hours and hours I spent doing behind the scenes work (writing lesson plans, writing progress reports) could have been saved. I have envisioned lessons I could have done using AI to assist my students.

[@DrJohnnyJ]

As a professor, I felt largely replaced by KZbin. All the interested student really needed was an overview of the materia to get started. However, most students need tests and grades to stay motivated. When AI tests and grades, teachers will be in trouble. I used AI to prepare multiple choice/fill-in questions and it worked pretty well.

[@defheescollard-sx4nh]

Glad what Sal is doing and kudos Khanmigo :-)

[@NilimaPradhan-us9se]

I enrolled in Moonpreneur's coding classes on my friend's advice to build a strong foundation for learning AI, and I’m absolutely loving the curriculum!

[@brc9064]

Amazing First was khan academy now khanmigo😊

[@yasshilpi6427]

Love you Salman Khan.....You are a genius...🥰

[@SeanFlora]

An amazing tool. Also, kids need the human attention of caring adults. So this is in no way a replacement for teachers or tutors. (It doesn't look like they're claiming it is)

[@imthelovestamp]

Fricking love Khan Academy

[@SonnyDarvish]

Ever grateful for Khan Academy! I couldn't learn mathematics much at school and all the way to the college, I kept failing and passing with minimum scores, until I buckled down and learned it for my computer degree math exam and passed with high score! (it was free back in 2011 🥹 not sure about now)

[@shs03001]

Still free!!

[@rafaelgroenewold7037]

It looks promising and the geometric formulas must be explained by what they do with the formula and not just show the formula.

[@alfonsorodriguez2739]

Technology is turning everything into a self-service business. First, self-checkouts and now self-teaching.

[@handyman7147]

I can't wait to use my slide rule again.

[@mech-E]

AI has amazing possibilities. But when does it turn into Black Mirror, Dune, or any other number of dystopian futures?

[@btcprox]

I imagine things may get tricky when trying to use this technology to teach potentially controversial topics, e.g. genocides throughout history, because the AI tutor needs to be accurate and informative but also not actively promote dangerous ideas close to the subject matter; this is probably the kind of teaching domain that would still be very human-led to allow that kind of careful nuance in teaching (for now)

[@matthewm8289]

It got height of a triangle wrong, ohhhhhh long way to go yet hahahaha

[@IvanGarcia-cx5jm]

I hope this is available outside of the USA somehow.

[@PhilHaddad]

Absolutely incredible, the future is bright!!

[@lierx.agerate8230]

With the right AI you dont need teachers or students. Thats the world we should all be looking forward to

[@CrazyBee-m4q]

I use Gemini to help me with my math homework. I do the question, and if I'm stuck or I know I keep getting wrong. I take a picture of it and it will identify exactly what I'm doing wrong and tell me why and how I can do it correctly in the future.

[@arturorubio-w1m]

Nice where can I get this

[@humbledriver2536]

Maybe we should power AI to screen all of our law enforcement civil servants including Chiefs of police sheriffs and other leadership positions. We have to get rid of the good old boy Network that's been around in law enforcement for decades of not centuries in this country

[@kellymoses8566]

I thought my TI-80 calculator was amazing.

[@arianaf6311]

I'd love to know more about their content moderation approach! Super important with children and young people using the internet.

[@monsterclass]

wrath of khan

[@jeremiahwat1]

It needs a feature that shows parents how to help their kid on the subjects

[@DemonRings]

I wish I had this when I was in school. I always asked dumb questions during class, and the other students would laugh

[@kellymoses8566]

Some children are going to spend almost their entire childhood learning from these things and become the best educated humans in history.

[@nz_proud]

I agree.

[@vectoralphaSec]

This might actually increase the collective IQ of humanity. All we would need is to completely get rid of social media or replace it with AI instead.

[@rarephoenix]

We've had the internet for entire youth lives for a while now. That's what they said at the dawn of the internet. These theories in practice never play out as expected. I thought when every person got a computer they'd all finally start programming but all they do is dance and take selfies and play games. I'm pessimistic about the future. ❤

[@alfonsorodriguez2739]

We don’t want the most educated humans, we want the most imaginative humans ever! Creativity got us this far!

[@RohanShirodkar29]

Awesome, great usage.. open AI is revolutionary tech company.. there are literally hundreds of use cases and how it can shape our future.

[@altha-rf1et]

This will be good for parents who home school their kids

[@arturorubio-w1m]

Very appealing I’m fan of academy

[@himselfthis]

It's sad living in a poor country....this can't happend here

[@FishTalkFish]

Mr. Cooper is looking dapper!

[@loganxlittlejohn]

That’s actually pretty great

[@jmyearout]

For K-12, teachers will still be needed because, like it or not, one of the purposes of school is daycare. Getting an education is just a "plus" to that. Many elected officials don't truly want GREAT schools, they want minimally effective schools at the lowest possible cost, because they view education as a cost and not an infrastructure investment. So long as one of the main purposes of K-12 schools is to be a "storage facility" for kids so they aren't roaming the streets and neighborhoods, people will be needed. Will it always be teachers in the way we have them now? Who knows...

[@MementoMori_2070]

Times are changing and everyone senses it…..AI tutors imagine that.

[@BRichard312]

I believed that teachers are ON the way out. In the future, I believe that the role will change from one of a teacher, who directs the class from projects to homework, to one of a mediator, where these individuals will be directing the AI's projects. Quite frankly, it's not inconceivable to imagine that the entire learning experience of the future will be largely automated between AI as the teacher, and the student as the learner. If this happens, it's not quite known what the role of a classic teacher in that world will be.

[@Knaeben]

Every last keystroke your student does will be recorded forever...

[@kellymoses8566]

Anthropic Claude Sonnet 3.5 is very good at generating Python code.

[@javed876]

AI will help students to learn faster and better not just in developed countries but also in developing countries as well.

[@pauldannelachica2388]

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ the future is interactive conversation with AI and collaborative idea and processes the shape and produce art or research with collaborative conclusions

[@dr.mikeybee]

I wonder how much AI has moved forward because students have had the Khan Academy for almost two decades?

[@DontPaniku]

He said it with a straight face. lol Teachers will be some of the first jobs to go.

[@kittycarlisle25]

Saw this last nite on 60 minutes… the guy from khan Academy

[@sslaia]

Nah, Khan is quite optimistic that teachers will be always needed (13:10). However I disagree. Even today there are some children who are home-schooled. With this AI teacher, we could abolish schools and every body does home-schooling.

[@aktchungrabanio6467]

Yep. That's coming very soon.

[@swallowedinthesea11]

Not everyone is rich like you to have access to the Internet! The lockdown proved this as a lot of students had no Internet at home for online school.

[@sslaia]

@swallowedinthesea11 you don't need to be rich to have internet. It's only a question of government policy. If the internet is tied with education, the government had to provide it for free

[@guitarem100]

As a teacher. Totally disagree. Humans need to get kids to focus and learn life skills like communication. The kids that didn't need the teacher and could learn with just ai didn't need the ai anyway

[@jaaan2914]

That's a horrible idea.

[@lukew3]

This is awesome

[@felixcat4346]

Chat GPT when you go to correct it and it tells you you corrected me if you go back the next day it's still the same wrong answer it doesn't learn

[@jaaan2914]

Use the memory function

[@SeanFlora]

Today I Learned: Anderson Cooper's mom is Gloria Vanderbilt! I had no idea!

[@snakebyteOne]

Hallucination on identifying the height of a triangle??? How well do Khan's models work on more advanced topics?

[@saksit247]

It's not. It is there to replace paid Teacher Assistants.

[@nkenchington6575]

I'd love to see some proper research into what environment/set-up produces the best results. Usually tech' in the classroom is a fad, as well as a distraction. A good teacher doesn't need it.

[@dad102]

Impressive.

[@SankalpaTutor]

It's good for some students but No way it can replace me. None of my middle school students want to be on electronics all the time especially if it's educational, plus they love real human conversation. Advice for Khan Academy developers, add some jokes to make it more desirable for students. And take your next test in socioeconomically disadvantaged schools. You will learn lot about what students and teachers want.

[@catatonicbug7522]

Augmented intelligence offered by a collaboration between AI and a human will become the most beneficial arrangements of the future. I love that the primary concern, prior to releasing this tool for public use, is that of security and privacy. If we take some extra time to ensure those aspects of technology are in place, we all will benefit from it.

[@vitalis]

Education needed an overhaul. This is great. I like the leveling of the playing field. However, to think OpenAI doesn’t collect data through their API is a bit of a wishful thinking.

[@asafzilberberg6648]

Wonderful

[@GhanashyamSharmaSBU]

To ask good questions, you need a strong baseline on the subject. To be motivated, you need more than a machine. Wealthy families have humans -- and Khan wants schools to redirect resources to "approximations" of help. Using well, with guardrails, is fine -- but teachers can also dump more content and assignments than they already do, exhausting students like half of the class we saw with our own eyes. Even the selected students "blamed it on the elementary school kids" with a smile ;). They, in the meantime, seem to use Khanmigo to get the (best) answers. That is not to say anything about "tracking" students' use of Khanmigo. No need to hover over -- you can abuse your authority and surveil students at your own pace, while feeding the corporate shill buddy's business. I lost Sal Khan when he was bought by Silicon Valley. And when journalists like Anderson Cooper are wowed by silly synthetic limericks, it's baffling.

[@redredred1]

OK so I'll just let everyone know how this is going to work out. Kids are going to use the AI to write their content. Teachers are going to use the AI to grade it. And neither party will be learning anything. Kids will still graduate with a 3rd grade reading level and teachers will still be graduating them while complaining that they're not paid enough for being the heroes that they are.

[@miguelrodriguez9848]

Thanks Salman, forever