How Khan Academy's Sal Khan cautiously partnered with OpenAI to bring AI into education
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Josh Tyrangiel
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Summary
A book excerpt detailing how Sal Khan (Khan Academy) initially declined OpenAI's invitation to try ChatGPT in early 2021, when OpenAI was still an obscure research lab and GPT-3 was an experimental model. The excerpt explores the early collaboration between Khan Academy and OpenAI to bring AI into the classroom, highlighting Khan's cautious approach to technology adoption and the eventual partnership that developed.
Key quotes
· 3 pulledThe secret to integrity is saying no a lot, and that's what Sal Khan did in early 2021, the first time that the president and co-founder of OpenAI, Greg Brockman, invited him to try ChatGPT.
Back then, OpenAI was an obscure research lab, and ChatGPT-3 was an experiment that had more in common with a Roomba than a Tesla.
The model would show glimmers of intelligence
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