“ai” edtech company collapses after taking six million dollars from the Los Angeles school district to develop an “educational friend” platform.
Los Angeles schools hired a start-up to build an A.I. chatbot for parents and students. A few months later, the company collapsed.
It's educational in the sense that it confirmed earlier research that found that handing giant bags of money to a bunch of 'AI developers' is an excellent way to get rid of money.
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The future of LA Unified’s heavily-hyped $6 million Artificial Intelligence chatbot was uncertain after the tech firm the district hired to build the tool shed most of its employees and its founder le...
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The Los Angeles Unified School District's new artificial intelligence tool will be able to accommodate students in 100 languages.
Burn money that could be used for ... like, anything else. Burn energy. Produce absolutely nothing. Invade privacy. This is the AI playbook. Should be studied in business schools (it won't be).
I have an AI girlfriend but she doesn’t go to this school, she’s hosted on a Canadian server
My understanding is it only a fraction of the $6 million had actually been paid.
Collapses, ... or cashes out because the grift worked?
The situation is somehow even worse than previously reported: "the tool processed student records in ways that likely ran afoul of L.A. Unified’s own data privacy rules and put sensitive information at risk of getting hacked." www.the74million.org/article/whis...
AllHere, ed tech startup hired to build LAUSD’s lauded AI chatbot ‘Ed’, played fast and loose with sensitive records, ex-software engineer alleges.
"Collapsed", right.
NYT must've waited a few days so it'd sound like their scoop instead of the L.A. media's...