AI will be able to bootstrap four-year-olds into reading within roughly 18 months.

AI will be able to bootstrap four-year-olds into reading within roughly 18 months. | when you talk about specialists we still have reading specialists to make sure kids get bootstrapped. Once you can read, I can teach you math. I can teach you all the other subjects, but the basically the the detection of a fouryear-old, the AIs aren't good enough yet. You know, we think we need another 18 months before AIS can do that.

when you talk about specialists we still have reading specialists to make sure kids get bootstrapped. Once you can read, I can teach you math. I can teach you all the other subjects, but the basically the the detection of a fouryear-old, the AIs aren't good enough yet. You know, we think we need another 18 months before AIS can do that.

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