How AI Could Close the Tutoring Gap: Gautam Mukunda

The greatest school in history isn’t Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard or any other university you know. And no matter how hard you try, your kids won’t get in. Why? Partly because it was so selective it only admitted one student — but mainly because it closed in 336 BC. For me, Aristotle’s seven-year tutelage of Alexander is the education against which all others should be judged (after all, more than 2,300 years later we still refer to the lone pupil as “The Great”). It’s the ultimate testament to the power of tutoring — a power that artificial intelligence is poised to unlock.

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