You before Oboe: I wish I could create high quality diagrams to teach me EXACTLY the thing I want to know. Why can't I do that? 😭😭😭😭 You after Oboe:

Large language models are bad teachers, despite hundreds of millions of people using them to learn every day. Here are a bunch of reasons why: 1. They overwhelm you with huge blocks of text 2. They put the burden on you to decide what to do next 3. They veer off course without trying to keep you on track 4. They don't explicitly build and stick to a learning path like a teacher does 5. They force everything to happen inside of their experience 6. They speak robotically and pedantically 7. They don't easily let you create and manage helpful learning resources 8. They don't quantify your progress 9. They often attempt to create visuals via text, emoji, or ascii art circa 1999 10. They obfuscate how they know what they know Oboe on the other hand: 1. Breaks everything down into clear, digestible chunks 2. Drives the conversation forward while allowing you to interject or ask questions 3. Has an opinion, like a good teacher does, of where to lead you 4. Creates a learning path, makes sure you see it, and evolves it as needed 5. Allows you to share and consume what you create in Oboe elsewhere, including podcasts 6. Speaks to you like a friendly, helpful tutor 7. Lets you create tons of artifacts, from diagrams to worksheets, from quizzes to songs 8. Helps you understand how much you're progressing across all your chats 9. Creates beautiful, modern, clear visuals only when it would help the learning process 10. Shares exactly what its sources are and how they tie into the material. Check out our newest version:

AI is making teachers’ jobs a nightmare. Despite educators being the main force ensuring future generations remain smart, curious, and capable, every day is a struggle for them. AI enables unprecedented levels of cheating. It's disabling students’ ability to think critically and form their own thoughts and opinions. At Oboe, we want to turn AI on its head. Rather than using it as a shortcut, we want to use it to democratize access to great learning. So our goal is the same as that of teachers: teaching billions of people trillions of things. That's why, starting today, we’re offering completely free access to Oboe Pro for the first 1,000 teachers that email us at [email protected] from their school addresses. If you know a wonderful teacher who would love Oboe, please send this their way.

Today, we're rolling out on-demand songs and diagrams in @oboelabs. You remember the alphabet from when you were 4, but you've already forgotten something you read this morning. That's because walls of text are the worst way to retain what you want to learn. Songs lodge in your brain for decades, and a good diagram can help a complicated concept click in seconds. Two new ways to learn, live today.

This gym exists. It’s called oboe.com

Here's what the internet will soon become because of AI: An infinite library, with infinite truths and infinite falsehoods, and a complete inability to tell those two things apart. This is straight from the 1941 Jorge Luis Borges story “The Library of Babel”. In it, he imagines an infinite library made up of books of random letters. Because it is infinite, it contains not only every book ever written, but every book that could possibly be written. It contains every possible truth as well as an infinite number of falsehoods. The secrets of the universe, of life, of everything, are hidden somewhere in that library. The only issue is: that magical book is impossible to find. And if you found it, how would you ever know you found the book of truth, and not one of the infinite books of lies that surround it?

Deep dive into the story and its implications: oboe.com/learn/borges-librar…

AI is making you stupid. Today, we're introducing the all new Oboe, designed to make you smarter. Think about the last 10 answers you got from an LLM. How many of them do you actually remember? Probably none, because LLMs are not good teachers. But @oboelabs helps you learn the way humans are supposed to: through guided conversations, frequent checks for understanding, real-time adjustments, and multiple formats for all learning styles. Here's everything we're introducing today:

Everyone's building AI that thinks for you. That's the wrong bet. The Expert Influencer didn't win by making things easier. She won by making people smarter.