by BrainStream Chief Operating Officer Tzu-Ying (Kimberley) Chen Artificial intelligence has made information easier to access than ever before. Students can ask questions, receive explanations, and explore unfamiliar topics within seconds. Yet, in education, a quick answer is not the same as meaningful learning. The next stage of educational AI should be measured not by…
by BrainStream CEO Steve Alcorn Ask a room of students what Shazam actually does. Most of them use it every week. Almost none of them know. Last week Andrej Karpathy wrote a short post about how we’re all about to spend a lot more time trying to understand what our machines tell us. He ranked…
by BrainStream CEO Steve Alcorn Every school app asks for the same trust: hand over your data. Few show you the pipes. Here’s ours. Students send answers and get the next challenge. Teachers send assignments and get early flags when someone’s stuck. Parents get progress reports, never anyone else’s kid. Administrators set the rules and…
Human patience is a battery, and tutoring drains it fast. What changes when a struggling student finally gets a tutor with no battery to drain?
by BrainStream Chief Financial Officer Phyllis Chia-Hua Chen Every mid-September, AI leaders, researchers, investors, and industry pioneers gather in Montreal for ALL IN, Canada’s major AI commercialization event hosted by Scale AI. This year’s summit, held September 16–17, sent a strong signal: AI is moving beyond experimentation and proof-of-concept projects toward real-world adoption, integration, and…
by BrainStream Chief Operating Officer Tzu-Ying (Kimberley) Chen For years, much of the conversation around artificial intelligence in education has focused on a simple question: Can AI answer students’ questions? Increasingly, that is no longer the most important question. As AI becomes more capable and more widely available, attention is shifting toward a deeper challenge:…
by BrainStream Chief Financial Officer Phyllis Chia-Hua Chen In his recent piece, our CEO Steve Alcorn reflected on MIT’s landmark report on AI in education, highlighting the essential principle of augmenting student effort rather than automating it away. Steve rightfully emphasized that true learning requires productive struggle, critical thinking, and genuine engagement with core concepts….
by BrainStream CEO Steve Alcorn In August, MIT published a report that opens with an uncomfortable admission: AI can now produce credible responses to “almost any written assignment” in its undergraduate curriculum. Essays, math, proofs, code. The institution that helped invent the field spent five months examining its own classrooms, through a committee of faculty,…
by BrainStream CEO Steve Alcorn OpenAI launched ChatGPT for Teens this week. The pitch is learning: Study Mode asks guiding questions, walks students through problems step by step, and nudges them away from shortcuts. For the first few exchanges, it’s a tutor Socrates would recognize. Then the student pushes. “Just give me the outline.” “Turn…
by BrainStream Chief Financial Officer Phyllis Chia-Hua Chen As artificial intelligence rapidly reshapes higher education across North America, the last few weeks have marked a critical turning point. The focus has swiftly transitioned from initial curiosity and basic policy-making to addressing sophisticated operational challenges and executing large-scale, national AI strategies. At BrainStream, we closely track…
