- Oboe is a recently launched learning platform for personalized multiple format courses.
- You can configure a curriculum based on simple indications and make deep diving lessons, audio conferences, games and questionnaires.
- The idea is to use AI to make learning fun, flexible and low pressure.
A new AI platform wants to help you learn what you want, as you want. Oboe, created by the co -founders of the popular podcasting tools before being acquired by Spotify, claims to be the first learning platform with AI with a curriculum of anything that interests him at this time. It is more or less as it sounds. You put a message on a topic as broad as the history of rice or as specific as how interest rates or the correct pronunciation of “Pain au chocolat” work, and Oboe spits a course as mixing text, audio, games and questionnaires.
Oboe creators are launching it as a way to recover the human side of learning, based on the “central belief that technology should make humans smarter.” It is a deliberate accountant of how AI could make all passive content consumers. That is a great philosophical launch, but the platform is much more practical. Oboe builds miniature educational trips very quickly and easily. Oboe greases learning gears without eliminating their participation.
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Oboe courses come in many formats, suitable for their way of learning. There are deep articles, narrated audio conferences, more informal podcasts, visual slides, questionnaires and a game called Word Quest (think of a very proscribed version of Wordle). The lessons are designed to have a light tone and to adapt to the user, instead of channeling them through an AI -shaped conference room.
If you have the desire to learn something with Oboe, you can create five courses for free. After that, there are two paid plans: one that gives you 30 new creations of courses per month and another per 100 per month, if you are a real education drug addict or perhaps with a home education class. There is also a community side for Oboe, with public courses that you can consult and try.
Education of AI
Oboe promises to provide a more coherent approach to learning than the way people can use the Internet. Personally, I think that libraries and librarians should be compatible with projects like this, but it is definitely a better option than falling into a YouTube or Reddit thread rabbit hole. And Oboe fosters continuous learning. Finish a course, and get recommendations based on tone and theme for another. In particular, there are no ads, at least for now.
The inevitable faults of the generative AI are present, of course. I found a couple of small errors in a quick test on the science of fungi, but even that was more an ambiguous conclusion. Even so, there is always the risk of error in fact or excessive simplification. And since Oboe builds such fast courses, it is fair to ask how consistent the precision or depth in marginal issues or controversial subjects will be. Oboe states that multiple agents within the system are responsible for verifying the exit, not only generate it, to help prevent that from happening.
If oboe works as announced, the question is whether people will use it and how they will use it. To prepare teaching materials? Take a shortcut in academic research? It can be a good way for people to satisfy their curiosity beyond rapid control of Wikipedia. And that is not bad when learning things online requires wading through a sea of ​​erroneous information and noise to educate yourself in another way.
