Andrej Karpathy, who worked for OpenAI as part of the Founding Team and previously as Director of AI at Tesla, has announced the launch of a new AI-focused school initiative called Eureka Labs.
AI has the potential to radically change our learning experience. According to Karpathy, an ideal learning experience should be supported by quality materials under the guidance of an expert, just like Feynman in physics classes. However, such experts are rare and have limited capacity. Now, AI can close this gap.
⚡️ Excited to share that I am starting an AI+Education company called Eureka Labs.
— Andrej Karpathy (@karpathy) July 16, 2024
The announcement:
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We are Eureka Labs and we are building a new kind of school that is AI native.
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According to him, recent developments show that AI-powered teaching assistants can offer individual guidance to students by working in collaboration with teachers who design course materials. This approach can expand educational access and scope, making it easier for everyone to learn across a range of subjects.
His first step in this vision will be LLM101n, an undergraduate-level class, which he introduced as the best AI course in the world. This course will provide online and physical materials that guide students in training their own AI.
“Our first product will be the world’s obviously best AI course, LLM101n. This is an undergraduate-level class that guides the student through training their own AI, very similar to a smaller version of the AI Teaching Assistant itself. The course materials will be available online, but we also plan to run both digital and physical cohorts of people going through it together.” said Karpathy as part of Eureka’s announcement.
