 Thanks everybody, I'm chrisman from from synthesis, so let's talk about parallel education See, oh here we go. Okay, great. Um So yeah, my my co-founder Josh started a school for for Elon Musk at at SpaceX for Elon's kids and some of the other SpaceX families and You know, I think a lot of people are really excited about this. I got a lot of attention Because you know, maybe this is gonna be Elon's next company and he's gonna fix education for us But he really just wanted the school for his own kids and so, you know Josh and I kind of realized if we're gonna fix education, you know to be up to us And so we we started a company to kind of scale up the innovative ideas from that school and make them available to people who? You know aren't billionaires with their own rocket company, but still want the best education for their kids And I think it's uh, it's just important to reflect for a second like why does someone like Elon who's clearly got a lot to do? You know what what makes him care about education? I think it comes down to this fundamental thing that education is about values people find it very uncomfortable to Have their kids educated by someone who who doesn't precisely share their values And Elon's not alone there I think the the kind of like the falling trust that we see in the system, which is already quite low Is driven at least partially by this values conflict And I think by the way that we are absolutely right to fight over the values in our education systems Because the values that we embody in education become the civilizations that we create our civilizations are downstream of education So two very different societies here ancient Sparta and Athens the Spartan system very rigid It's kind of designed to get people to fight in this phalanx And you know the idea is like you have the right answer and you need to just execute then this rigidity is okay But of course the Spartans, you know are gone now and our civilization is much more based on the ancient Athenians Who had a more open-minded approach the idea that you don't you're not in possession of the truth But you can come closer to it and by doing so you can make progress And so the values of synthesis are you know Essentially that there's there's knowledge and wisdom in the past that we want to pass on and and there's beauty there as Well, but we don't want to pass those things on so we can return to some past We want to actually move forward and make progress and continue to create new and wondrous things Also in a word, you know building things is good actually and for the people in this room This might seem obvious and uncontroversial But you know, it's there's this idea that's kind of endemic in the system now I just pulled this one headline from Oregon But I could pull dozens like this from from around the world Where people kind of have this zero-sum mentality that if some people learn and excel that that comes at the expense of everybody else And that is a that that's a that's a zero-sum way of looking at the world And if it's left unchecked it will keep us all Equally ignorant and and impoverished and and will destroy civilization So you can think about this in terms of biology's question You know Do you go for loyalty voice or or exit and loyalty is really tough when you don't share the values of the system So so what people like Gary you're trying to do here is is voice and you know, I admire the hood spa But I think it's going to be really tough when people are kind of hell bent on not teaching math and science The idea that you're going to make them sort of do it by force And that they're going to be somehow really good at it. I you know, I think that's going to be really tough So there's there's this other approach which uh, which tesla has kind of shown us the way on this Which is sort of a You know like a voice through exit So the idea there is you build something just that's wildly better than the current system And and maybe you can get the system then to to pay attention and to adapt and change the way the car companies have embraced electric vehicles So, uh, you know back to what we're we're actually building The the uh, you know one of Elon's critiques of the system, which I think is really good Is that uh, you know the the way that school does it is they would kind of give you like a course on on wrenches And a course on screwdrivers that kind of teach to the tool instead of the problem And what you should actually do is just give kids an engine to take apart and then that way when they reach for the tool There's meaning there that is a much more engaging and effortless way to learn So the way they approach this at the space x school Is you put kids in teams because most problem solving happens in teams the problems We're all working on I imagine we have to work together with a team We put them in teams They have to collaborate there and they compete with other teams Which gives us this fun kind of you know competitive spirit to it and you're giving the kids these complex problems They're in the forms of of games and simulations And the problems are fake but they feel real to the kids and it feels like there's some real stakes to them And we use this as a platform to teach them the kind of meta problem solving skills So the things that that we're all using every day. How do you communicate effectively? How do you work together? How do you make decisions under uncertainty? And and learn from the environment and adapt and the kids really love it And when I when I saw this at the space x school, I was just blown away Everyone who sees it kind of has the same reaction You just can't believe the remarkable skills that these kids can develop at a young age And this is initially what made me feel like we had to start a company and scale this up So this is sort of an idea that is you know orthogonal to the existing system It's it's very much outside the system. It's not really stepping on any toes So let's talk about the next thing we have which is a product called tutor Which is it's more a direct shot across the bow And I think biology captures the spirit of that pretty pretty well here So the idea is you can you know replace the the woke teachers with with ai teachers or or you know Actually even better tutors tutoring is Is far and away the best way to learn so there is a researcher called Benjamin bloom who coined this idea the blooms to sigma problem And you know the idea there is that you can take kids with tutoring from 50th to 99th percentile Which is kind of the difference between Community college and the ivy league we can do this with tutoring and and we can't really do it any other way The elites have always known this which is why Alexander the great was tutored by Aristotle and of course the problem is You know there's not enough Aristotle's to go around And all the efforts the kind of holy grail of education technology is to create a digital Aristotle Aristotle that we can use to reach every kid So this is uh This is data from a DARPA project So they spent about a hundred million dollars trying to create a digital tutor And I don't have time to go in the data here But if you google less wrong DARPA tutor then then you can do a deep dive on that The upshot of it for now is that they try to solve blooms to sigma problem And for the u.s. Navy to teach people it and they accidentally overshot it by about an order of magnitude So not only can we have uh digital tutors that are as effective as the best human tutors But we can have something that's far far better And let's see if I can do a quick, uh, I'll play a little video for you guys Can you fill out the whole table now give it a try? sir Let's take a look at the highlighted square and start there Go ahead and fill it out when you're ready um Okay Look carefully at what pieces you've put into this square and note how you've read them rows first then columns Let's do the same thing with this larger square now Good I'll unlock the rest of the widget for you to continue filling it Keep an eye out for those tricky rows and columns So that's gonna Four times two So Okay, let's take a look at the two highlighted squares It's just a convention But for this table we'll read the pieces as rows times columns Go ahead and swap them to make sure they're on the correct spot Okay Wow amazing work you're on top of this I think I get the path you have probably noticed that I colored the dots in a bit of a strange way How many dots are there of each color? All right So you can uh, you guys can give this a try for yourself What I want to point out uh there is you can see that the the kids really like it and and they like it Because it's not boring. It's giving them something to do and then when they make mistakes It's sort of jumping in and probing for their misconceptions and helping them to Guide themselves to the answers and you the evidence from these the DARPA trials where they pioneered this approach Is that you can learn about 20x faster? This way so you can speed run the system So try it out for yourselves. There's a free demo up here And if you have kids, uh, then you can sign up at census.com and that's that's my time. Thank you