Two intelligence assets talking to each other. Both have quite similar backgrounds with dubious credentials. A history of lying and obfuscation. I wouldn't trust anything Fridman or Durov say.
> Math Academy is an AI-powered, fully-automated online math-learning platform. Math Academy meets each student where they are via an adaptive diagnostic assessment and introduces and reinforces concepts based on each student’s individual strengths and weaknesses.
What is edutech and why is it unsuitable?
I don't want a computer in the loop when I learn math, plain and simple. My preferred style of learning is instructor led with a mix of Socratic method and hand holding. But bar that, reading texts and using a pen and paper.
As far as I can tell, most of its value comes from having a reasonably thorough dependency tree of math topics and corresponding exercises (which can be solved with pen and paper) and describing it as "AI" is how you get investors to fund a math textbook.
The “ai” is an expert system yes to calibrate to your ability to answer questions it throws at you. The questions are all human written. I had your initial scepticism as well, I can reassure you that the ai is not an LLM.
Also the guy Justin skycak who built it has put a lot of thought into its pedagogy
My experience with MathAcademy is very positive. So is my experience using ChatGPT 5 as a math teacher in learning mode. I'm as fed up with AI slop as most people, but for me this is a domain where it excels.
I'm pretty sure the author hasn't actually followed his own advice. Also, the writing style was atrocious. I wouldn't trust anything said. Seems like the type of post he wrote for himself (nothing wrong with that), but I don't feel that asking a 20-25 year old to have a 5 year plan which is basically 1/4 of their conscious life is something useful or achievable for most.
I think as with everything related to learning if you're conscientious and studious this will be a major boost (no idea, but I plan on trying it out tonight on some math I've been studying). And likewise if you just use it to do your homework without putting in the effort you won't see any benefit or actively degrade.
Until that same AI starts shilling ads and certain viewpoints peddled by their owners in the output... This will happen 100% (ads, the other bit has already happened). The economics of all of these models doesn't work as is. There will be a major squeeze down the line.
Some of us have dipped our toes in local LLMs. To be sure, the ones I can run on my hardware always pale when compared to the online ones. But perhaps in time the ones you can run locally will be good enough.
Or perhaps an Apple or Kagi will host an LLM with no built-in monetization skewing its answers.
It's true for EU and UK. You're protected and have more rights as a worker, but generally HR (in my experience) is definitely not considered your friend in most matters.
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