{"id":107492,"date":"2020-05-22T22:02:20","date_gmt":"2020-05-23T05:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/china-has-started-a-grand-experiment-in-ai-education-it-could-reshape-how-the-world-learns"},"modified":"2020-05-22T22:02:20","modified_gmt":"2020-05-23T05:02:20","slug":"china-has-started-a-grand-experiment-in-ai-education-it-could-reshape-how-the-world-learns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/china-has-started-a-grand-experiment-in-ai-education-it-could-reshape-how-the-world-learns","title":{"rendered":"China has started a grand experiment in AI education. It could reshape how the world learns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/china-has-started-a-grand-experiment-in-ai-education-it-could-reshape-how-the-world-learns.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Zhou Yi was terrible at math. He risked never getting into college. Then a company called Squirrel AI came to his middle school in Hangzhou, China, promising personalized tutoring. He had tried tutoring services before, but this one was different: instead of a human teacher, an AI algorithm would curate his lessons. The 13-year-old decided to give it a try. By the end of the semester, his test scores had risen from 50% to 62.5%. Two years later, he scored an 85% on his final middle school exam.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI used to think math was terrifying,\u201d he says. \u201cBut through tutoring, I realized it really isn\u2019t that hard. It helped me take the first step down a different path.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zhou Yi was terrible at math. He risked never getting into college. Then a company called Squirrel AI came to his middle school in Hangzhou, China, promising personalized tutoring. He had tried tutoring services before, but this one was different: instead of a human teacher, an AI algorithm would curate his lessons. The 13-year-old decided [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,41,2229,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-information-science","category-mathematics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}