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Your Next Teacher Will be a Machine: Why the Future of Education is Automation
There is an educational revolution on the horizon. Artificial intelligence is getting faster, more accurate, and is unlocking entirely new ways to interact with content. We can already see the power of AI being used to serve billions of ads every day. Let’s explore how we can use similar technology to bring education into the age of the internet and expand the boundaries of what’s possible.
“The Algorithm” and Social Platforms
It’s hard to fathom how much information the world now has at its disposal. YouTube receives more than 80 Years of video uploads per day. TikTok boasts hundreds of clips uploaded every single second. Google indexes more than 50 Billion websites. Given this mass of data, how do we find anything at all?
Yes, we can find specific content by link or ID using something similar to a lookup table. But what if our query is less well-defined, such as finding relevant content for a user? How do we rank the best choices from a sea of billions of entries?
When we say “relevant”, we’re generally referring to a trait that’s difficult to…
