"The creators of Oboe know what everyone's thinking about AI. "Is AI going to make us all stupid?" the company asks in a recent ad. "Are we going to forget how to think for ourselves?" Oboe's founders think the answer to both of those questions is no, and their startup is meant to prove it. The AI education platform, which launched this month, uses AI to craft "courses" about any topic that strikes a user's fancy."
"It comes from the creators of Anchor, a DIY mini-podcast creation platform that was acquired by Spotify for $150 million. Nir Zicherman, Oboe's CEO and cofounder, ended up running Spotify's audiobooks vertical, while Mike Mignano, also an Oboe cofounder, ran Spotify's podcast team. Zicherman wants to "democratize access to a great learning experience" on the cheap with AI, he tells The Verge."
Oboe is an AI education platform that generates customizable "courses" from user prompts. The founders previously built Anchor and led podcast and audiobooks teams at Spotify. Oboe aims to democratize affordable learning by assembling content on any topic using AI. The platform currently does not include citations by default, which creates vulnerability to AI hallucinations and misinformation. Many learners rely on ChatGPT, Google, YouTube, and Wikipedia but must verify and cross-check those sources. The lack of clear sourcing in generated courses raises concerns about accuracy and learners trusting what they absorb.
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