Jimmy Koppel
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Jimmy Koppel is a recurring person in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between December 28, 2021 and September 18, 2024. The archive places it in contexts such as “Jimmy Koppel, $40,000, to support his work on intelligent tutoring systems”; “Jimmy Koppel, the only person I could find who actually looked into this in depth”. It most often appears alongside 1DaySooner, 2016 Washington carbon tax ballot initiative, @GoodSciProject.
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- Category: People
- Mention count: 2
- Issue count: 2
- First seen: December 28, 2021
- Last seen: September 18, 2024
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Jimmy Koppel, $40,000, to support his work on intelligent tutoring systems. We know 1-on-1 tutoring is the best way to learn, but human tutoring doesn't scale to the number of students who need it. Computer tutoring systems can ask questions, identify areas where people need to improve, and notice/respond to specific error patterns. I was originally skeptical about this but reading things like this essay have gotten me excited. Pure AI tutoring is hard because "it takes 300 hours to develop 1 hour of intelligent tutoring system curriculum", so Jimmy is working on a hybrid model where computers do lots of the work but there's still a human in the loop. Jimmy has a PhD in computer science from MIT and currently runs a company doing advanced training for professional software engineers.
Jimmy Koppel, the only person I could find who actually looked into this in depth, was not impressed. He writes:
Inline links: He writes