Joe Liemandt

5 tracked predictions · 0 hit · 0 partial · 0 miss · 5 still open

open Joe Liemandt: AI will become good enough to handle the earliest stage of bootstrapping young children (around age 4) into reading, a task current AI tutors still can't do.
EP #233 · 2026-02-25 · due: ~August 2027 · ▶ watch
“We think we need another 18 months before AIs can do that.”
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open Joe Liemandt: The roughly $10,000-per-student annual AI compute cost for Alpha's vision-model screen monitoring will fall by about a factor of 10, moving toward on-device processing.
EP #233 · 2026-02-25 · due: unspecified · ▶ watch
“That'll come down a factor of 10... We're going to get it down to on device.”
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open Joe Liemandt: Several new Timeback-platform-based school formats beyond Alpha itself (Texas Sports Academy, a gifted/talented school, a Montessori school, a wilderness school) will roll out broadly.
EP #233 · 2026-02-25 · due: 2026 · ▶ watch
“Next year in 2026, you're going to see all these other models beyond just Alpha that roll out based on this time back software.”
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open Joe Liemandt: A packaged 'motivation plus learning' product, built with some of the world's best video game designers and top influencers, will be released to help motivate students Alpha doesn't directly control.
EP #233 · 2026-02-25 · due: 2026 · ▶ watch
“We have some of the world's best video game designers that that's going to be released in 2026.”
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open Joe Liemandt: Alpha will build 10,000 schools over the remaining course of Liemandt's involvement in education.
EP #233 · 2026-02-25 · due: ~2046 (20-year horizon) · ▶ watch
“I got 20 years, so we're going to build 10,000 schools, you know, and that's going to be great and I love it.”
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