RedesignandRe-engineering theNotionofEducationand Classrooms

Mr. Tommie Lo attended tonight's Hall Night Talk. He runs Preface AI as its CEO. He began to share his tale of his interactions with his company. His company offers training and educational content and services for people that are interested in technological development such as the CEO of other companies. His academic background has little to do with technology majors like history or literature. Yet after getting into UCLA, he discovered that he liked economics, even if doing so required mastering arithmetic, a topic he is not good at. He subsequently made the decision to enroll in the math class and, with perseverance, was successful. He achieves outstanding academic standards and receives a job offer from JP Morgan. He was not, however, having fun at work.

A short while afterward, he was covertly hired by an organization that assisted the current US president in making choices. Calculations in statistics were required so that the current president could make the optimal choice, necessitating Mr. Tommie's expertise. While assisting the president in determining the best course of action for the nation, he found the work to be tedious. He made the decision to leave his position and pursue academia, finishing his Ph.D. He was obtaining his Ph.D. with the intention of becoming a professor. To achieve this, he later traveled to London.

He worked as a waiter in a different service industry because the lifestyle in London had high maintenance. But then customers started recognizing him as a Ph.D. student and asked him to be their teacher. He then began to work as a teacher for those students and eventually garnered a life-saving out of those teaching experiences. He then decided to use that money to start up an education company and hold his Ph.D. degree for that period. Another company scouted Mr. Tommie’s start-up company due to its rising popularity and offered a hefty profit.

But Mr. Tommie decided to reject the offer and ended up losing a lot of profit. He then took some time to rethink this matter and made another project that educated people about technology. Using machine learning and data analysis, his platform can adjust itself with the user and make the best fit of the education curriculum for each person. In the end, he reminds us how important your choices are to your life. The next session was a Questions and Answers Session where Mr. Tommie answered the audience's questions about the platform’s AI system, the difference between his platform service and real-life tutors, etc.