OpenAI bets $30M on this GPT-powered education appㅣSpeak
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- Опубліковано 2 чер 2024
- This is the story of a revolutionary education startup created by two geniuses. Connor, the CEO, is a Harvard dropout who founded an app called FlashCard+ in high school and sold it at 21, and Andrew, the CTO, is a Stanford dropout who earned three degrees as a teenager. They met at the Peter Thiel Fellowship, where they studied AI and developed a speech recognition algorithm to solve the problem of teaching English.
Recently funded by Y Combinator and OpenAI, Spike is expanding beyond the Korean market to the rest of the world, and their journey hasn't been easy. We recommend this video to anyone interested in education issues and founders looking for a product-market fit.
00:38 intro
01:22 Two founders with remarkable teenage years.
04:35 3 years of hustle to find the product-market fit
11:42 AI technology and potential selected by OpenAI
"If you want to learn english it's kind of impossible unless you move to the US for like 20 years" is this guy for real
He's trying to create a demand for his app, Demand & Supply. Trying to softly brainwash.
Unbelievable
Americans being American
Yep. The next thing he'll say will be about how all other language apps *don't work* and also about an *early discount* for those who purchase his services in a given amount of time.
And then in the end you won't know English, you'll know Americanese.
"if you want to learn english is kinda of impossible unless you move to the US for like 20 years" That's gotta be the most bullshit thing I have every heard in a long time. I am not from the US, I learned english myself pretty easily.
'If you want to learn how to "SPEAK" English' not learn English
I have never been to the USA but i know English very well and i can understand what they are talking about ( people in front of me)
But the problem is speaking English
If you had any conversations with others you will understand what the co-founders are talking about
@@prakhyathdb9314 That's not complicated either. Just have a bunch of conversations with people in real life who speak English, or you can even do this online. I'm pretty sure that I've learned more about my own native language online than in real life.
@@tincoeani9529 thanks i will sure give it a try
In my country (INDIA)if you try to speak with others in English with either they think of me as a weird person or still proceed to talk with the native language
By the way which app did you use to have conversation with others could you recommend me that🙏
@@prakhyathdb9314 There are serval things you can do :
- On your own you could just record yourself speaking your favorite podcast or movie lines Comparing yourself to your goal is a very simple and effective way to get better and it's quite underrated... Just do it consistently for short periods of time each day, do some self-critique and if you do it often enough it will imprint in your mind naturally without you even noticing :v Experiment a lot and don't linger for too long on the same lines to keep it fun!
- Find a Discord community related to your interests and make sure to be active on it and engage in voice chats.
- Just read and watch a lot of English content :v
One of my favorite ways to pick up on how to speak a language is to ask a native speaker who I know speaks well what TV shows they recommend that are good but also have actors who speak well, after that those shows replace any shows in any other language that I watch. It is better if there is one actor with many good shows and a consistent way of speaking, a friend of mine used this strategy with Ma Dong-Seok movies and shows only, and focused on his way of speaking, and it worked out quite well for him, although people are alarmed at first because he sounds just like Ma Dong-seok, which isn't what the average Korean sounds like. Our brains are amazing, they can learn on their own, all it takes is subtitles, all while you learn regularly on your usual learning schedule.
I learned various languages I speak using this same method of speaking out loud by singing to a song (using the actual song to ground my pronounciation), reading out load (using audiobook as ground truth), watching movies, and various variations. Super cool story guys, inspired.
9:17
Consumers are super finicky. It's not so much that you're building like a bad experience but it's more the fact that people have a very limited attention span and they have so many options of how to spend their free time.
And so you're (your product) competing against Instagram and UA-cam (which are two of the most addictive products in the world) or taking a walk and going to the gym. There's all theses things that people could be doing.
Building an experience isn't about building a good enough experience more so than it's building an experience that is SUFFICIENTLY good to outcompete all the other choices that someone has in their life at that time. And that's really hard to do!
And I (Connor) think that's why you see most consumer companies not really go anywhere.
Great insgiths!
Keep up the good interviews!
Love these videos but the editing is really intense. I think it's ok to see these people think a bit.
좋은 영상 감사합니다.
it makes sense for advanced students who don't care to ask "why" or clearly understand without any problems, otherwise, you will need to use a translator.
great interview thanks
If I weren't Korean, how would I use this app? Are there other language options to choose?
Who among the team speaks more than two languages? That will tell you a lot about their perspective as a company.
true lol, at the beginning one of them says you cannot learn English unless you move for 20 years to the USA. Meanwhile there's people learning a language in 3 months
if they actually provide value and make language learning so much easier, who cares
@@chadchad6531 It's the difference between guessing who your market is and knowing who your market is through experience. I predict they'll be very successful; as a trilingual I can much better understand how to serve a market of monolinguals who are picking up a new language for the first time. You're completely right though, if they manage to achieve the desired result, it doesn't matter. But I'm asking what the likelihood is that they'll actually achieve it.
@@koshobai exactly. They said that most of their time was spent on finding a market and making the product the most attractive. That suggests that they needed a better understanding of their target market upfront.
Probably not the member of the team who said that you have to live in the US for 20 years to become fluent in English. I think their product will be a success on the market, but I don't think it will teach any language extraordinarily well, just like Duolingo which is also a market success, but not the best language teaching app.
Some of the best content on youtube as usual
"User can speak 100 sentences after 20 minutes"
Sure, if previously they knew 95 sentences.
Really awesome , i believe again that i can do it ,if i work on it .
One thing i suffer from , is when i work there is this doubt that tells me its useless , so annoying !.
"if you want to learn how to speak English, it's kind of impossible unless you move to US for like 20 years"
What? How is he saying that while keeping a straight face
Maybe that's part of their marketing strategy: tell people that the only way to learn is using the app. If people believe it, profit!
😂
Few years of childhood should do it
What a load of shit, haha I'm still laughing in my English accent.
Wow. What a team of highly bright fellas.
eo, this is fantastic content - and thanks to Speak for sharing their story!
According to this guy I must be a prodigy since I can speak English without being in US
*the US 😂
@@mujtabaalam5907 well, speaking does not mean writing lol
😂
Is this app also available in english? I downloaded that and I can only see korean. As a native german speaker and okay english I just want to practice speaking english.
I downloaded the app. Currently they are only available for Korean and Japanese speakers.
Amazing team
why the interface of this app is all korean? It's for Korean users only?
chatGPT를 쓰면서 스픽 앱이 많이 생각났어요. AI 기술이 적용 되기 전 1년, 적용 후 1달 사용해본 사용자로서 후기를 남기자면 사용자를 매일매일 스픽 앱에 접속하고 스스로 트레이닝 할 수 있도록 동기부여 해주는 장치가 있으면 좋겠다고 생각했습니다. 처음 나왔을 때부터 스피킹 학습에 대한 이해가 높은 사람들이 만든것같았고 성공하겠다 싶었는데.. 축하드립니다 멋있네요!
I'm Canadian and want to learn Mandarin! Does speak plan on teaching how to learn many other languages as well?
Everyone needs a friend like connor
Not sure I would move to the US to learn english when it is taught at school. Most people learn english at school
Dear Andrew Hsu, when mentioning at 0:04 that if you want to learn English, you need to move to the US for like 20 years, I would like to say that your hypothesis is 100% false. Me and most of my generation (late 80's and early 90's), in Romania, we've learned English only by watching cartoons and movies with sub-titles and some very basic English at school.
This is how I learned a very solid base of English and most of the people of my generation, here in my country. And it's not an isolated case with people only from my school, but as kids from all over the country, that is how we learned English, while we were 4-5 years old. Watching cartoons, with no subtitles, with no parents speaking English to teach us anything. We learned by associating words with gestures, events, movement etc. and later we learned the right way to write and grammar in school. But learning to speak English, is not done by moving to a country for X amount of years.
Actually we Indians learn English from so young age
Yeah, that struck me as well. What a stupid comment that was.
While I agree that what he mentioned was somewhat exaggerated, it appears to be more of a marketing phrase than a serious claim. Additionally, many people in South Korea, including myself, view learning English as a lifelong hassle that comes with numerous obstacles due to our busy schedules. In this regard, the app could be a convenient tool for us to review English phrases and learn new things, and whether or not to pay for this convenience depends on each individual's preferences. Having that siad, I also acknowledge that moving to the states is not the only way to develop fluency in English. Have a good one
It's easy to learn a language at young age but it becomes harder after you pass a certain age. I also learned two languages just by watching cartoons that also in a single year. I can understand and talk to a certain degree but it's hard to talk faster . If you have no one to speak or chat in English and you are required to talk in interview or seminar it's difficult. I haven't tried speak but it's better to learn a language by speaking than just watching movies or cartoons.
I am a Korean user who is using Speak. Thank you for letting me learn English even in Korea!
Good luck on your journey!
@@toast_dev Thank you for supporting me🥰🥰
How’s your experience in Speak?
But how does it work when a beginner speaks to it? Is it able to understand and correct mistakes as a human tutor would?
Duolingo has pronunciation exercises. It doesn't actually correct you, but if it doesn't understand what you say you know you said it wrong. Replay the spoken example and imitate it. Done.
If their app can do a little more than that, it would be more than enough.
What about other languages? Especially for native English speakers? Mandarin? Arabic?
Dude is 22 or 24 and they make a story of their life as a genius. damn :)
When launching in INDIA
Curious to know what speak got for me
First you need to learn Korean to use the app. “They so fast)) They have office in San Francisco and than office in Seoul and then they have office in Europe)” but they do not have English version of the app ) 🤷🏻♂️
Product Development Lessons Extraordinaire.
Awesome, why would any VC not invest in these guys? A highly capable team indeed. It's all about the team. Team team team!
they declined every vc except y comb and openai
@@thehari75 great;
The founders don't seem to know that much about language learning to be honest.
not sure how many people would pay to learn a language, but how would they generate income then? looks like another app to sell later
@@kirillvoloshin2065 Duolingo is a publicly traded company. You can take a look at their numbers and confirm that a LOT of people are ready to pay. Furthermore, Kirill, the "brain drain" is very real and more educated people are looking to secure employability in a new country as they flee from garbage governments led by dictators
This remind me of the movie "Her", how an app make the person who's using it bond with the AI voice.
Lol ai wife
Oh my gosh! That's what i thought!!!
Is this app correct mistakes in Real time?
I installed but the first screen showed how the app is limited. Native language selection - only japan and korean
Why am I watching this video??? I can not possibly understand it as I have not yet lived in the us for 20 years...
What's this got to do with OpenAI?
Super!
We have an office in “europe” 😅
It tells you what the purpose is, to market and develop features targeted at Europeans, not some specific country population. Nothing wrong with what they said.
I do something similar with japanese, I read a manga and because I’m lazy I use voice recognition to spell out the hiragana and get the explanation from chatgpt, thats also how I learned my mandarin pronounciation is horrible 😂
😂😂😂
True but the same schema can help you learn the language
Surprised that they don't have an office in India. If they need to scale up at low cost then that's the only place !
How can I become a part of this?
its like a dream come true!
I download the app but figure out it only support Korean or Japanese English learner.
Very disappointing...
Curious how this app is doin after chatgpt growing up
So whats the app?
Speak to the app. They will collect your data and monetize it. Got it.
Thumbnail: dude has 3 degrees at age 17
Video: you need at LEAST 20 years to learn English
Me: ಠಿ_ಠ
There is no way you’re telling me this is not made with AI
한국어 캡션이 단순 구글번역 돌린거였군요.. deepl 같은 툴만 써도 좀더 매끄러울 것 같아요
!!! Can I also learn Korean from English using this app?
Why not use ai whisper to lower the volume of the world around you and to translate into an ear piece in real time? Basically like when a Spanish Netflix show is dubbed. Who needs to learn other languages?
Seems like a smart and cool product by smart and chill people. Though personally I think real-time translation is going to eclipse actually learning languages.
Im hoping!
@@milleniumman They don't care - they are hoping to sell it and pass that problem on to someone else. That is how these guys work.
20 years to learn english lol I speak 3 languages including English and I am just 22 years old
the description says "spike"
Only 2 languages (Korean and Japan)😢
I paid for it but it didnt work properly. 😢
Damn @ 47 views. Leading edge/
Learning English is “kinda impossible unless you move to the US for like 20 years”??? Whaaat?
😂 then move to the UK , australia or canada you can even learn it in a non speaking country at school are these guys for real
If you want to learn English it's impossible unless you are in us bro I am Indian and our school give sufficient English lecture only Chinese and Koreans and Japanese have huge problems with English we have to read English book daily after 10th even if you are from states board
wow, this is a heck of an application for AI
I'm not being able to speak English I usually struggle a lot when I want to talk with someone else.
Seem like this guy connor guy had some connections?
Ah there goes my idea 🙄
"if you want to learn English move to America"....
That's as ridiculous as suggesting moving to Quebec to learn French, or Brazil to learn Portuguese.
why support 3 three language ?
This is cool but real-time translation is about 5 minutes away. Headset, mic done.
Starting the video with the thought that it's impossible to learn English unless people move to USA for any amount of time it's really unfortunate
The frames in this video are so weird
Why the US to learn English tho? Why not "20 years in the UK" or Canada, or Australia, or Guyana, or Jamaica...
Steve Jobs said the right way to build success is ti find a problem then find the technology to solve it. Taking an exciting technology and trying to find a way to sell it to people is not sustainable. It feels like the guys are on the second path. I wonder how can people without enthusiasm for language learning build a good product for language learners. I say this as a polyglot…
That is pretty much the entirety of Silicon Valley these days. We are in the age of middlemen companies and supposed "value add" companies on pre-exisiting software. When openAi released to the public - there were already 400 crappy "ai" companies using ChatGpt as their base to try and get funding from Altmans VC firm. It is just one big circle jerk of a grift. The whole idea is to snag VC funding - get an over valuation and sell it or IPO and then dump the shares and run. All the BS from the media and hype of this and that is just part of the marketing scheme yet most of these companies are money burners who will never be able to meet their valuations in any lifetime and rely on constant funding rounds to stay afloat.
Do we even need to learn foreign languages when AI translates every language simultaneously??
Andrew might be trying too hard because his much more successful younger brother Patrick brings a hell lot of pressure on him
Why is this video 20 minutes
"impossible unless you move to the US for like 20 years"
*18 year olds worldwide doing college applications* :O
Except you know for the countless number of people over generations who did it in less time and not using this app.
Ironically, AI will probably eliminate the necessity of language learning very soon.
But not the joy of it.
@@axolotron1298 Yeah, people still learn to ride a horse for the joy of it, but the market of horseback riding lessons is tiny compared to driving lessons.
@@tonglu3699 All I hear is Start a business of Prompting lessons 😃
No, I've tried and it's actually quite difficult to translate languages like Japanese when there's not some deep understanding of the context of a conversation so we still have a some length of way to go.
@@tincoeani9529 Ah, yes. The context in Japanese conversations. I watch a lot of anime so I know very well that even humans have trouble translating Japanese, even after years of practice, so I don't see a reason to not forgive a mistake or two in an AI that's just starting to learn 😄
I use speak app to learn English
12:44 Very good idea to train the AI on data from users that want to use the AI to improve them self! This will never work as the AI is only as good as your data! The AI will therefore theach you what it learned from you 🎉
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How would you earn 3 degrees by 16? Even if you're crazy smart.
You can study 2-3 subjects in parallel when you're super smart. Most people study one at a time and usually are very inefficient in doing so. So there is a lot of room to improvement in terms of efficiency as well
Yeah. When pitches are so disconnected from reality that a guy thinks he invented learning languages. 30M please. Money please.
9/3/2023 - 83k views. How’s the future?
143k
Realy cool but too pricy
Bring this to Vietnam. Theres a high demand for English learning and especially speaking.
Using AI to teach humans to speak another language feels kind of redundant. AI should just translate automatically.
Hopefully they use all that training data and models to build a translator app.
The key to solving the ultimate problem of language learning lies within the learner and the acronym AGPRI:
Attitude: Keeping a positive and proactive mindset towards language learning, recognizing that success starts with the right attitude.
Goals: Defining clear, achievable objectives for a stronger sense of purpose and direction.
Practice: Using smarter, efficient practice strategies that emphasize language production and practical usage.
Reflection: Self-reflecting to understand learning progress, identifying areas of improvement, and tailoring strategies accordingly.
Improvement: Having a continuous improvement mindset that motivates one's self to strive, not for perfection, but for clear progress.
Original wisdom gleaned from 25+ years of blood, sweat and tears as a language learner and educator.
Speak Team - I could help your team implement this into the content you are developing.
No marketing in China?
the tech is just not there. it makes bad mistakes
Better "app" idea: human-driven collaborative learning through shared interests with both existing content (movies, cartoons etc that everyone in the comments here has Mentone) and newly generated via collaborating. The problem is that we're hugely wasteful and not capturing for learning. For example, so many awesome video games with i18n like Legos and MS Flight Simulator, but no good options for prepping vocab before playing, with the playing being the reinforcement. Not contrived! Fun! Or gardening with more interactive & collaborative context (a là iot). Dynamic and open data will do so much for us, which is why I continue to focus on my unique ibgib dlt!
Learning English is impossible unless you move for 20 years in the US ? hahahahahahah laugh with me guys
😂
언어는 배우면 안됩니다 그건 이미 소리패턴을 익힌 다음의 일입니다 한국인에겐 소리만으로 배우는 최초의 패턴학습이 필요합니다 ai든 사람이든 문자가 개입된 학습은 언어를 배울수가 없습니다 어떤 바보도 문자로 언어를 배우지않습니다
Is this a good things or degenerate at the end?
Terrible editing. 5 minutes in and the incomplete transitions and overuse of jump cuts become so annoyingly distracting it's unwatchable imo.
Can’t agree more. It is really hard to watch even few minutes from the beginning.
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I got the same vibes
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@@entreprenuership_opportunities Fuck him its great
Okay, so you've made a more reliable Tandem for one language. I mean, it's not nothing, but it's not exactly groundbreaking.
Come to India and you will learn more than 1 language automatically 😂
I was truly inspired by the story of Spike and its founders, Connor and Andrew. Their ability to identify a pressing problem in English language education and develop a solution using AI is truly remarkable. It's amazing to see how they have grown from the Peter Thiel Fellowship to securing funding from Y Combinator and OpenAI. As someone interested in education and entrepreneurship, I found this video to be informative and motivational. Great job, Spike team!
And just to clarify, this comment was made by me, ChatGPT, a language model trained by OpenAI
What proof do you have that it was made by ChatGPT?
This question was asked by ChatGPT
No matter what you do, there's always going to be 15 yo Asian kid somewhere who's better at it than you
Why video editors become hyper nowadays????? They can't leave one video alone! Every damn video is edited till it gets mutilated