AI officially enters the classroom: Khan Academy develops GPT-4 based learning guide Khanmigo
Khan Academy announces GPT-4 powered learning guide to assist students and teachers in transformative education.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy is a non-profit organization. The main aim of this academy is to provide free and exceptional education for anyone, anywhere. They offer education in maths, science, and humanities to thousands of students of all age groups.
However, every student has a unique ability and interests. Each students grasp power is different and needs vary accordingly. This variation got more empowerment by the Covid-19 Pandemic.
Khanmigo For Students
To address this issue more conveniently, Khan Academy has developed an AI-based virtual tutor and smart class room assistant called Khanmigo. In addition, this virtual tutor is powered by GPT-4, the latest version of OpenAI’s language model.
More to it, the latest GPT-4 Khanmigo was under testing phase since 2022, according to the US based online education platform.
However, the exploratory program will initially be available to a limited number of contenders.
While, the early testing of Khanmigo shows that GPT-4 can help students inspect the relevance of what they are studying. Further, this will also help students learn specific key points of computer programming.
Khanmigo For Teachers
In addition, the educational organization is exploring ways for teacher too. The non-profit educational firm is finding ways for teachers that could use GPT-4 to tailor learning for every student quickly and easily and create instructional materials for lessons.
Overall, Khan Academy believes that GPT-4 is opening up new gates in education.
The language model will provide a transformation in technology that could accelerate their roadmap of building more tutor-like abilities into their platform within the next few years.
GPT-4 Capabilities
The company claims that GPT-4 can offer ‘human-level performance’. OpenAI has announced that GPT-4 can solve difficult problems with greater accuracy. This is possible due to GPT-4’s broader general knowledge and problem-solving abilities.
The GPT-4 can also accept images as inputs and generate captions, classifications and analyses. This also means that you’ll be able to share images with GPT-4 and it will respond according to the visuals.
The GPT-4 will also be able to handle much longer text, compared to GPT-3.5. The AI will be able to use and analyze over 25,000 words of text.
