Interactive AI tutors with engaging personalities/avatars will arrive within about a year.

Interactive AI tutors with engaging personalities/avatars will arrive within about a year. | what's coming next is the interactive AI version of that and it's going to have exactly your favorite personality on the other side... The AI version of it, it can be any voice, any personality. It could be it could be Shaquille O'Neal, you know, reincarnated as a math teacher, whatever. It's going to be so incredibly engaging and it's not quite ready yet. It'll be there within a year | Alpha Schools / Khanmigo scale-out

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what's coming next is the interactive AI version of that and it's going to have exactly your favorite personality on the other side... The AI version of it, it can be any voice, any personality. It could be it could be Shaquille O'Neal, you know, reincarnated as a math teacher, whatever. It's going to be so incredibly engaging and it's not quite ready yet. It'll be there within a year

Interactive AI tutors with engaging personalities within 1y (Feb 2027). Khan Academy Khanmigo, Anthropic Claude for education, Character.AI all advancing. Directionally on track.

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