Khan Academy Joins with OpenAI

Alex Tabarrok

Apr 5

One model of a future course is a super-textbook: lectures, exercises, quizzes, and grading all available on a tablet with artificial intelligence routines guiding students to lectures and
exercises designed to address that student's deficits and with human intelligence—tutors—on call on an as-needed basis, possibly for extra marginal fees.

That was Tyler and I in our 2014 paper. Here's the Washington Post on the Khan Academy and OpenAI colloboration.

...last week, the private Khan Lab School campuses in Palo Alto and Mountain View welcomed a special version of the [GPT] technology into its classrooms.

Rather than solve a math problem for a student, as ChatGPT might do if asked, Khanmigo is programmed to act like "a thoughtful tutor that's actually going to move you forward in your work," says Salman Khan, the technologist-turned-educator who founded Khan Academy and Khan Lab School.

Khanmigo was developed in concert with OpenAI, the nonprofit tech start-up that created GPT-4, the underlying technology for the latest version of ChatGPT. OpenAI did not respond to a request for comment on the partnership.