As we continue our coverage of artificial intelligence,
we have to talk about its impact on learning.
So joining me now to do just that is the founder of SA I and a former VP at Meta
JJ.
Welcome.
Thanks for having me
is Sizzle
A I trying to help improve the learning space.
It's really meant to be a companion for all learners.
If you have homework and you are stuck on, it can get you unstuck.
If you have homework, you want to check, it will tell you give you some feedback.
If you have things you want to learn for a test, it can get you ready.
Ok?
Give us an example of a use case of this use case is you know,
you are doing your homework, you don't know how to do the next step.
You can take a picture of it
and then Sizzle
will tell you this is the way you can solve this problem step by step.
And it will try to get you to actually solve each step one at a time
and give you hints of feedback.
Interesting.
So this is an app that you would use on your mobile device, your ipad, your computer,
something like that.
That's right.
Android
IOS.
How, what is the bang for your buck that you're returning here?
Just even in terms of how it's supposed to make education easier,
what can people expect?
I mean, the problem today is not everybody has access to support, right.
So you may not have a parent at home that can help you.
You may not have a one on one tutor.
The goal is to use A I to be that assistance for you
that you may not have otherwise.
And in terms of the price point, what can consumers expect to pay for this right now?
It's all free. So we intend to build an audience and get people to use the software.
How do you protect the data as such important data, especially for young users?
I mean, we really don't share the data with anybody else.
We do use the data to improve the service
and how do you use it to improve the service when we try to
improve the accuracy of the tutor and make it more useful for students?
So we can understand what they are trying to
do and then improve the software for that.
What's the target demo here? Is it young Children? Is it teens? No, it's teens.
It's really meant to the students that can learn on their own.
So 15 to 20 year old
high school and early college,
how do you make sure that it's being used for good.
Well, we try to monitor how our students use it and we are really focused on learning.
So we want to not give them just the answer.
We want to incentivize them to try to answer on their own.
Answer their question, give them hints.
So do you give them the answer in the end? At the end?
We do because they can find it somewhere else.
You know, if today, if you are doing homework at home,
you can figure out a way to get the answer.
But with si
on what you do is it really gets you step by step through it.
So it's a really better tool for you to get engaged with the homework and get unstuck.
So do you get the answer immediately or no? You don't actually, right.
How does that work? Because some people might say
that it is basically like I understand that it's used for good.
You want to help them find the original method,
but some people might just skip to the bottom and get the answer.
They may, you know, and they may do that with other software,
but we don't give it to you right away
and we try to walk you through each of the steps
and in each step, we try to say, hey, can you try to answer it?
Here are some options for you.
So it's a stand alone app for now. Is that correct? That's correct.
What about partnerships with different institutions.
Is that something that you are considering?
We want to be on the good side of the education system.
We have talked a lot to teachers. I think they like the app.
We want to be the app for learning that
and education specialists would recommend.
Interesting.
So in terms of how you want to make the app more sophisticated,
how do you see that playing out?
So we just launched quite a few features, you know,
like one is instead of just helping you with your homework,
we will help you prepare for your next step.
You can actually even yourself use it. You can go there,
enter any topic that you want to research or test your knowledge
on and it will create a feed of little activities for that.
So think of it as a bit of ad dulling,
go for anything.
So let's say that you complete your homework on your own
and maybe you want someone to check it. Does it have the capabilities to do that?
Yes, we also introduced that feature.
You can take a picture of the home homework with your answers and
then the system will highlight the parts where you can do better.
So this seems like it would be very advantageous for students.
Are you sure over time that this would this would make them smarter?
Well, that's the objective of our company.
You know,
our top line goal is how much learning do people do
on our platform and how much can we improve that?
Interesting
any other aspects that users can expect to debut this year?
I mean, really the idea is we want to be the companion that all learners will use,
including
not just students down the line, also non students
and go there and basically learn anything
you want and help you achieve your learning
goals and who is powering this A I who is building it in so far that
you make sure that it is giving students the proper information.
Well, we are building models, you know A I models.
It's not perfect, you know, it makes mistakes but we are constantly improving them.
Will it note that if it makes a mistake or if it's unsure,
not always.
And sometimes the students tell us and you know,
we try to correct and they can even contest, challenge the answer and we try again.
Ok. All right. Good to know our founder of Sizzle
A
Jerome present.
You Jerome. Thank you. Thanks for having me.