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Lesson 1: Getting started with KhanmigoWhat is Khanmigo and how does it work
Learn about the basics of Khanmigo, Khan Academy's AI-powered tutor and teaching assistant. Created by Sal Khan.
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- [Instructor] In this video,
we're going to give you a little bit of background
of what Khanmigo even is and how you should think about using it. So Khanmigo is an artificially
intelligent assistant with many capabilities. It'll assist you with some of the things you've always done on Khan Academy, but it now also allows
you to do more things. Now, when you have access to Khanmigo, you're going to see this menu
right over here of activities. Now, what happens with these activities is for each of these activities, there's different instructions
to Khanmigo in the background to make that activity work really well. So for example, if you
wanted to be tutored in math or science, you should go to Tutor
me: Math and science. And so this might be a great place to say, "I want to understand photosynthesis." I'm having trouble,
"Photosynthesis better." That's a science question, it
makes sense to ask it there. And it says "Fantastic,
photosynthesis is a cool process. Let's start with a simple question. What do you think plants need
to perform photosynthesis?" So this is an activity where Khanmigo, because it knows that you want
tutoring in math or science, it's going to do it, but it's not just going
to give you the answers. It's going to try to ask you questions and then understand where you are, and then help you fill in any
gaps of your understanding. Now, if you go to one
of the other activities, say this activity right over here, which is all around helping someone focus. We've actually worked with researchers, and if you do this, it's a good chance it'll help
you focus more on things, but here, if you tried to be
tutored in math or science, Khanmigo is not going to work so well, because that's not what the instructions for Khanmigo here are about. So if I said, "I want to
understand photosynthesis," I think that something weird
is going to happen here. "That's awesome, but first, let's get you in the right mindset. How ready are you to study right now on a scale from zero to 10?" So what you can see here
is it's not really engaging with helping me understand photosynthesis. It's trying to do this activity
that will help me focus, and you could go down to all
of these other activities. Each of them have different instructions to the underlying artificial
intelligence, to Khanmigo. If you went to brainstorm an essay, but once again you wanted to talk, get tutoring on factoring polynomials, that's not the place to do it. Brainstorm an essay is a
place to brainstorm an essay. If you went to the Debate topics and said, "Let's write a story together." Let's go there. So here's a place where
you can get into a debate with the AI on a whole series of topics, and you take one side, the
AI can take another side, which is great, but if you said, "Let's write a story together," it's going to struggle
with that a little bit. "I'm sorry, but I'm
here to help you debate on specific topics. We can't write a story together. Let's choose a topic
from the approved list and start our friendly debate." If you wanna write that story together. We have things like, we have things like, where did I write? Right here, Craft a story. And so this is a place, you know, "Let's write a story together," which it already knows that you want 'cause you're coming here. "Oh, how absolutely delightful I'm positively brimming with excitement. So each of these activities
are going to be good at different things. So look at the activities,
look at the directions, and don't try to do anything anywhere. Now, there's a whole
other side to Khanmigo. What I've just shown you
is our Activities page. But Khanmigo also acts
on the side in anything that you're doing on Khan Academy. So let's say that you are
working on your algebra. I'm just going to pick
a random exercise here. So let's say you are watching, let's do evaluating
expressions with one variable and we can start practicing it. And here Khanmigo knows that this is the problem
that you're trying to solve. And so when you go here, and let me go into student mode here, 'cause I have a teacher account. If you say, "Tell me the answer," Khanmigo won't tell you the answer, because it is your tutor. But notice it knows what's going on here. "Do you know what to do first
when you see 2D plus three and D equals eight?" And I will say, especially if you're
getting tutored in something that's math or science heavy,
but especially math heavy, this is the better way
to get the tutoring, because Khanmigo is able to use an actual Khan Academy exercise, or an actual Khan Academy video. So when we say that the AI
can make mistakes, sometimes, it's much less likely
to make those mistakes when it's using, or we
could even say anchoring, on Khan Academy content
that has already been vetted or has already been
looked over by experts.