Why Your AI Learning Projects Keep Fizzling Out

TL;DR: Today, we’re releasing a new episode of our podcast AI & I, where Dan Shipper sits down with Nir Zicherman, the CEO and cofounder of AI learning platform Oboe, to talk about how to use LLMs to teach yourself anything. Watch on X or YouTube, or listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts.

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LLMs have made it absurdly easy to go deep on almost any topic. So why haven’t we all used ChatGPT to earn college degrees we wished we had majored in or pursued a niche interest, like learning how to name the trees in our neighborhood? I know I’m not the only one to feel guilty for well-intentioned attempts at autodidactism that inevitably peter out.

Entrepreneur Nir Zicherman has a reason for this disconnect: LLMs can answer most of your questions, but they won’t notice when you’re lost or pull you back in when your motivation starts to fade.

As the CEO and cofounder of Oboe, a platform that generates personalized courses about everything from the history of snowboarding to JavaScript fundamentals using AI, Zicherman has thought deeply about why the ability to access information does not automatically lead to understanding a concept. In this episode of AI & I, he talks to Dan Shipper about everything he’s learned about learning with LLMs.