catalinvoss

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by catalinvoss 2mo ago
Totally agree that we should expose kids to the great classics and I love Pipi Langstrumpf as I grew up to know her. The challenge is often that these books aren’t the best to learn to read with, because they don’t have decodable words. So
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by catalinvoss 2mo ago
And fully free in emerging markets, beginning in Africa
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by catalinvoss 2mo ago
Yeah – this is hard stuff. If we're successful in getting the this right, our users won't be feeling any of the complexity.
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by catalinvoss 2mo ago
I was that same 5 year old. I do think that if we want AI to force-multiply humanity, we need to start leveraging it for education. I think it's one of the biggest levers we have to be honest
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by catalinvoss 2mo ago
Human tutor is definitely the best thing we could do, but it’s not attainable to give every child a human tutor and clearly the current system isn’t working. If you manage to build a good AI tutor, you can unlock more human interaction outs
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by catalinvoss 2mo ago
we = a team of teachers, AI experts, child psychologists, learning designers, and parents; building in the US and Kenya
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by catalinvoss 2mo ago
I get where you're coming from. There’s a lot of potential to misuse AI with kids. What we do believe is that children will be living in a world where this technology will exist, and how it gets used becomes the important question. We
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by catalinvoss 2mo ago
Business model is interesting BTW. We’re a public benefit company and are planning to make our products completely free in emerging markets and have a free tier in the US. Impact and business should be aligned here, but pulling in opposite
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by catalinvoss 2mo ago
Yes! Deeply admire what Sal Khan set out to do. One of the original pioneers of how technology could transform education. What we learnt from it: a chatbot is not enough to teach a child though. We need more to fully engage them and have th
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by catalinvoss 2mo ago
We agree with this sentiment. Our goal is to supplement children with effective learning, NOT replace humans. This article can provide a little more context on how we're thinking about this: https://www.ello.com/blog&#x
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by catalinvoss 2mo ago
We started with reading, providing patient coaching as kids learn to read out loud. We are now adding math and in some countries, English as a Second Language. Students actually aren't as homogenous as you might think. And it's on
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Building a real-time AI tutor for 5-year-olds(ello.com)
155 points by catalinvoss 2mo ago|412 comments
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Ello (YC W20) Is Hiring a Lead Unity Engineer(ycombinator.com)
1 points by catalinvoss 5y ago