Meet Khanmigo: The student tutor AI being tested in school districts | 60 Minutes

we're about to show you a technological innovation that could one day change the way every child in every school in America is taught it's an online tutor powered by artificial intelligence designed to help teachers be more efficient and students learn more effectively it's called kigo kigo means with me in Spanish and con is its creator salcon the well-known founder Khan Academy whose lectures in educational software have been used for years by tens of millions of students and teachers in the US and around the world kigo was built with the help of open AI the creator

of Chachi PT its potential is staggering but it's still very much a work in progress It's being piloted in 266 school districts in the US in grades 3 through 12 we went to hobbert high school in Indiana to see how it works the story will continue in a moment good morning just a normal day in chem right at 800 in the morning Melissa higginson knows it's not always easy to get 30 high schoolers excited about chemistry are you ready are you ready all right that's what I want to hear but these days she has help

this is acetic acid the PIP Pet's not going to fill all the way that lesson hion has displayed behind her and is explaining to her nth and 10th graders was created with the assistance of conmigo she told the AI tutor she wanted a 4-day course in which her students would investigate the physical and chemical properties of matter this next section is your research section it took kigo minutes to come up with a detailed lesson plan that would have taken higgison a week to create you pull that computer back out you're going to go back to

kigo research and the students have kigo on their laptops too ready to help them with their questions we have a couple of questions that we need to ask kigo so for example I asked it what are three examples of acids and if I wanted to know more so it gave you three examples of acids like hydrochloric acid citric and suur can you give me more examples and if I wanted to know even more I could ask it like what specifically some of the acids do so it's giving you acids and then it's asking you a

question can you think of any other household items that might contain asset yeah so like it wants to help you understand understand like what it's telling you and not just like give you the information this school used to be finding creative ways to help kids learn is something Sal Khan has been doing since 2005 he'd gotten degrees in math computer science and engineering from MIT and an MBA from Harvard and was working as a hedge fund analyst to build themselves when he started recording math tutorial videos in his closet for his young cousins so if

I were to multiply this equation not long after with the help of donors including Bill Gates he quit his career in finance and started the nonprofit KH Academy from the beginning of KH Academy the true north was how do you give more students at least approximations of the type of personalization they would get if they had a personal tutor a wealthy family can afford a tutor for their child if every kid could have a private tutor that would level the playing field yeah that's the dream co-founders of open AI Greg Brockman and Sam Alman were

fans of KH Academy and hope to evaluate their AI using K's database of test questions and content should do so they gave cell conon Early Access to an advanced AI technology that today underpins chat GPT what did you immediately think it was pretty obvious this technology was going to transform Society so it it was pretty headyy stuff uh but on the education side I was like Wow people are going to be able to use this for doing deep fakes and fraud and cheat uh but but if used well with the right guard rails Etc could

also be used to support students to give them more feedback to support teachers for all this lesson planning and progress report writing that they spend hours a week doing item level analysis Educators and engineers at Con Academy used open AI technology to build conmigo we're going to be using kigo for this and for the last year and a half the teachers and kids at hobbert high school and others have been testing it out I'll ask it question we sat down with two students from that morning chemistry class Austin and Abigail as well as leaden and

Maddie who use kigo and business class and Lou and Lily who use it in English and for sat preparation I heard people at K Academy came and and asked students to break it yes yes that was the fun part some students would try and trick it into just giving you the answer the superintendent I talked to said that some students were bullying kigo answer I think that was the elementary school kids oh yeah okay blame it on the elementary school kids okay it's very helpful for those students who um maybe don't feel comfortable asking questions

within class does it have a personality it's very much there for you like it's very positive it it's very reassuring it's getting me thinking and it's conscious giving me an answer do you ever just want to be like could you just give me the answer that was the hardest part for I know like me and a lot of other students like why isn't it giving me answers at the end of the day that's where your better answer is going to be it's not going to be whatever the AI gives you it's going to be whatever

you create so your hypothesis going into the last test is teachers at Hobert High don't just use conmigo to help plan lessons and save dozens of hours a week they also monitor their students understanding of subjects in ways they never could before you can track how a student is actually using cono yeah I'm going to click usage and then if I wanted to pick a specific student I could come down here and really dive into what that student's been looking at kigo and this is real time because you saw Abigail this morning looking at acids

and bases so wait a minute these are the footprints of Abigail's work these are the footprints of Abigail's work at 8: a.m. she was asking about acids and chemical reactions so even though you may not be hovering over the student at any given moment you're somewhere else in the classroom you can later check oh this is what Abigail was looking I understand her thought process on on why she got these ansers absolutely so it gives me a lot of insight as a teacher in terms of who I need to spend that one-on-one time with maybe

kigo throws in a Mastery challenge or sell con says they won't sell the data they collect through conmigo or give it to other tech companies they do use it however to improve con Migo's memory and personalization it'll guide them to sort of what to do first Sarah Robertson a former English teacher who's now a kigo product manager showed us a new feature they've developed to help kids write better and think more critically I found this essay that I wrote to test it I gave kigo a paper I wrote in sixth grade about my mom Gloria

Vanderbilt so go ahead and click next start revising after just 90 seconds kigo delivered a very detailed evaluation of my essay okay it liked some of what I wrote the use of a quote to start the essay is effective and sets the tone for the rest of the biography but suggested I should revise several parag s and my topic sentence so I'm going to rewrite my sixth grade paper after a few minutes of tweaking ask it what it thinks um what do you think it says connecting childhood events to her later life will make your

essay more cohesive and insightful I mean yeah it's good advice I can tell you as a former seventh grade English teacher when I assigned an essay I would limit myself to 10 minutes per essay I had 100 students so it would take me 17 hours to give feedback on every single student's first draft the burden that we place on teachers to give that specific timely actionable feedback is just so great that it's not possible so I've now plugged in to see if kigo could catch me cheating I asked chat GPT to write a paragraph about

my mom and pasted it into my essay I now see that there's a critical flag kigo immediately sent an alert to Sarah Robertson it says that you pasted 66 words while revising from an unknown source so if I click on that now it's going to load your essay and it's going to show me exactly what you just did I'm so busted you're busted do you want to work with a three-digit or a four-digit number kigo is free for all teachers in the US but school districts have to pay up $15 per student per year to

cover computation costs and it's still being improved any other ideas that can show the kind of we got a hint of how kigo might evolve when Greg Brockman president of open AI stopped by sell office to show us their new vision technology that'll be available to chat GPT paid subscribers soon we're preparing a demo for 60 minutes to show people what chat gbd can do with voice mode with vision it can actually see what someone is doing through live video and interact with them in real time Brockman was talking with it on his phone got

it how about an anatomy lesson you're going to quiz him and ask him to draw whatever body part you want to you want to quiz him on and have him label how does that sound that sounds like a fantastic plan when Brockman pointed his phone's camera at the Blackboard the AI started to quiz me let's start with the heart Anderson can you draw and label where the heart is in the body it understood what I was doing even though my drawing was pretty crude the location is spot-on the brain is right there in the head

as for the shape it's a good start the brain is more don't patronize me it also seemed to pick up on my anxiet Anderson how about the liver give it a shot and show us where you think it's located in the body okay this is a little tough uh this is how we learn absolutely no pressure Anderson I put the liver on the wrong side of the body chat GPT corrected me politely Anderson's placement is close but it's primarily on the right side just below the diaphragm so could you critique this diagram overall Anderson's Di

diagram is a solid effort especially for an impromptu drawing the AI caught my mistake but it's not foolproof the formula is simple 1/2 time the base time the height watch what happened when KH asked it to calculate the area of a triangle and intentionally misidentified the height is this the height over here this four is that right the AI said he was right yes that's correct it didn't catch the error however this technology improves quickly and it is fun interact with really really Greg Brockman asked it to write a song about the formula for the

area of a triangle to make it rhyme and sing it using a British accent absolutely let's give it a try to find a triangle space here's what you do multiply the base by the height it's true then take that product and divide by two now you've got the area of for formula to pursue how was that that was really fantastic that's it's incredible it is it feels like we're in a science fiction book really I mean it just feels like to actually see it you are I mean I'm sort of speechless the first time you

see this stuff it really does just feel like this magic and almost incomprehensible and then after a week then you start to realize like how you can use it that's been one of the really important things about working with zand and his team has been to really figure out what's the right way to sort of bring this to parents and to teachers and to classrooms and to do that in a way so that the students really learn and aren't just you know asking for the answers and that the parents can have oversight and the teachers

can be involved in that process you can ask a follow-up question ccon hopes this new vision technology can be incorporated into conmigo and available to students and teachers in 2 to three years but he wants it to undergo more robust testing and meet strict guidelines for privacy and data security I can imagine a lot of teachers watching and thinking okay well this is just going to replace me why would I want this in my classroom it's like a trojan horse I'm pretty confident that teaching any job that is has a very human Centric element of

it is as long as it adapts reasonably well in this AI world they're going to be some of the safest jobs out there you think there will always be a need for teachers in a classroom talking with the student looking at the student in the eye oh yeah I mean that's what I'll always want for my own children and frankly for anyone's children and the Hope here is that we can use artificial intelligence and other Technologies to amplify what a teacher can do so they can spend more time good job standing next to a student

figuring them out having a personto person connection two t two tens you got it good work Aayla