Shawn Jansepar
@shawnjan8
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Building products for social good. Leading our Learning & AI Platform at @khanacademy. Board Director at @modo_carcoop
Vancouver, British Columbia
Joined November 2008
Stories like Elizabeth’s remind us why we do what we do at Khan Academy:
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We want to thank Anderson Cooper and his team for taking the time to explore our AI tool, Khanmigo. We are so honored to have this featured on 60 minutes! If you want to learn more about Khanmigo helps learners and how it can save teacher HOURS of prep, check out this link:
khanmigo.ai
Khanmigo, built by nonprofit Khan Academy, is a top-rated AI for education. Save time on prep, tackle homework challenges, and get personalized tutoring.
Khanmigo, an AI-powered tutor, helped design a detailed lesson plan in minutes — a task that would have taken high school chemistry teacher Melissa Higgason a week. https://t.co/oHd0RTkrBH
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Khanmigo, an AI-powered tutor, helped design a detailed lesson plan in minutes — a task that would have taken high school chemistry teacher Melissa Higgason a week. https://t.co/oHd0RTkrBH
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Impact at scale 🤝 tech nonprofits. Big thanks to @MastersOfScale for an inspiring Summit bringing tech nonprofit leaders together. Top moment? Seeing @KhanAcademy’s @shawnjan8 receive the Pioneers of AI Award. Grateful to be in community with those pushing us forward!
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I had the privilege of speaking at the @aiDotEngineer World Fair, where I presented "Scaling AI in Education: A Khanmigo Case Study"! It was great to connect with so many others working on some of the biggest challenges in generative AI. Talk here:
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Can't wait for @aiDotEngineer conf tomorrow! Looking forward to speaking on our experience building our AI Tutor and Teaching Assistant, Khanmigo.
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for me it's all about agents at AI Engineer conf @aiDotEngineer next week in SF definitely chasing down: @shawnjan8
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I’m super proud to announce that we are bringing Khanmigo for Teachers 100% free for educators in the U.S.! We’re able to offer it for free thanks to a partnership with Microsoft we just launched today. Try it out:
Microsoft and @khanacademy have joined forces enabling Khan Academy to offer all K-12 educators in the US free access to an AI-powered teaching assistant, now powered by Azure OpenAI Service. #MSBuild
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Sal Khan, CEO and founder of @khanacademy, thinks AI is going to change education for the better. He tells CBS Mornings about his new book, “Brave New Words,” and shares why he says AI can be an amplification of students’ abilities. https://t.co/yqCmUkZ6P0
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This demo is insane. A student shares their iPad screen with the new ChatGPT + GPT-4o, and the AI speaks with them and helps them learn in *realtime*. Imagine giving this to every student in the world. The future is so, so bright.
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I may be biased, but this one is pretty good 😄
need to brush up on math, science or humanities? use Khan Academy’s Tutor Me GPT https://t.co/RUQGE9Z75U
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Khan Academy's "Code Tutor" featured on the new GPT store!
the GPT store is live! https://t.co/AKg1mjlvo2 fun speculation last night about which GPTs will be doing the best by the end of today.
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How is @khanacademy using tutoring science and its early access to @OpenAI's GPT-4 to build Khanmigo, their Socratic AI tutor? 🍏 Find out in our conversation with @shawnjan8, Director of Engineering at @khanacademy and @labenz! 🎧 Listen w/ the links below!
Too many organizations think that having LLMs work with their data is the key to make AI valuable The real key is finding prompting approaches that let AI leverage their best practices Khan Academy's AI built on tutoring science > Chatbot with access to all 7th grade math tests
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Q: How do you build something 100 people love? Paul Buchheit is the creator of gmail. In the clip below, he talks about how he built the first version of gmail in a single day and iterated his way to 100 people who loved the product. The first version was an email client that
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Check out this conversation on the @CogRev_Podcast where I talk about the story of Khanmigo and the future of education!
[new episode] The AI Revolution in Education w/ @shawnjan8 and @labenz. They discuss: - @khanacademy 's early collab w/ @OpenAI to build Khanmigo on GPT-4 - Adapting GPT-4 to be a Socratic tutor and why it's better than 3.5 - Personalizing education w/ AI 🍎
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[new episode] The AI Revolution in Education w/ @shawnjan8 and @labenz. They discuss: - @khanacademy 's early collab w/ @OpenAI to build Khanmigo on GPT-4 - Adapting GPT-4 to be a Socratic tutor and why it's better than 3.5 - Personalizing education w/ AI 🍎
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...but I am eager to see research on whether learning is enhanced with things like AI tutors and the features that @shawnjan8 discusses with @labenz in the latest @CogRev_Podcast
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4. How Khan Academy is thinking about AI on @CogRev_Podcast with @shawnjan8 @labenz Points: - Getting sudden access to chatGPT (back in October) - Changed student's learning - Launching Khan Migo: Khan Academy's personal AI tutor
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Diagnosing Confusion Next week on @cogrev_podcast we'll have @shawnjan8 from @khanacademy on to talk about how they are adapting GPT-4 to an educational context where it often needs to recognize and help correct students' misconceptions. Obvious theory of mind implications
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Wow! Wow! Wow! North Atlantic sea surface temperature anomalies are going vertical again. And yes, I needed to extend the y-axis. Yesterday's temperature of 24.49°C (76.08°F) was 4.2σ above the 1991-2020 mean. The previous high for July 17 was 23.71°C (74.68°F) in 2020.
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