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Saad Mohseni

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Why Building AI At DeepMind Feels Like ‘Surfing’

And we have had some experience during COVID.

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Why Building AI At DeepMind Feels Like ‘Surfing’

And we failed because it was difficult to design television education programs.

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Why Building AI At DeepMind Feels Like ‘Surfing’

So we brought in a bunch of experts, and we've created these courses which sit across all the platforms, online, on TV, on radio.

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Why Building AI At DeepMind Feels Like ‘Surfing’

It's called CINF, which means class.

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Why Building AI At DeepMind Feels Like ‘Surfing’

Initially, we did biology, chemistry, physics, and mathematics, and we've got additional subjects.

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Why Building AI At DeepMind Feels Like ‘Surfing’

But we're focused on the 10 million students, in particular, 6 million kids from grades 7 to 12.

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Why Building AI At DeepMind Feels Like ‘Surfing’

And you have to remember, girls cannot go to school.

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Why Building AI At DeepMind Feels Like ‘Surfing’

And these programs have been, UNICEF calls it perhaps the most successful education program

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Why Building AI At DeepMind Feels Like ‘Surfing’

that they have globally, but we do it at scale.

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Why Building AI At DeepMind Feels Like ‘Surfing’

So 5 million kids watch these programs on a weekly basis.

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Why Building AI At DeepMind Feels Like ‘Surfing’

And we've done a base and end-line assessment of these kids with NYU in seven provinces, 1,800 households, 2,500 kids.

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Why Building AI At DeepMind Feels Like ‘Surfing’

And the difference in terms of kids who watch the programs and kids who don't watch the programs range from 40% to 130% if they get reminders and if they get tutored on WhatsApp,

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Why Building AI At DeepMind Feels Like ‘Surfing’

It's a 200% improvement.

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Why Building AI At DeepMind Feels Like ‘Surfing’

Is it a person tutoring on WhatsApp or AI on WhatsApp?

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Why Building AI At DeepMind Feels Like ‘Surfing’

Well, initially it was a bunch of students tutoring girls on WhatsApp.

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Why Building AI At DeepMind Feels Like ‘Surfing’

But now we have a WhatsApp AI chatbot.

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Why Building AI At DeepMind Feels Like ‘Surfing’

It's an AI chatbot that sits within WhatsApp because it's easier.

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Why Building AI At DeepMind Feels Like ‘Surfing’

And we have 250,000 kids that use it.

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Why Building AI At DeepMind Feels Like ‘Surfing’

250,000?

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Why Building AI At DeepMind Feels Like ‘Surfing’

250,000 kids that use it with tens of millions of queries and messages going back and forth.