We believe that LLMs give everyone of us the power to understand anything on our own. This changes how we organize our work, research and education, by allowing us to self-learn what we might have otherwise thought impossible.
Our goal is to build a tool for thought that feels like an extension of our mind, and helps us find our path from a question to understanding, on demand. Such a tool should allow us to:
1. Discover the exact shape of the knowledge manifold we wish to consume, starting from a diffuse objective.
2. Find the right sources of information, on an ongoing basis.
3. Continuously stay in our zone of proximal development so we maximize our learning velocity subject to cognitive constraints, as we expand our personal knowledge frontier from what we already know towards our target.
4. Retain information using cognitive tools for memory.
5. Stay on track by nudging us.
6. Collaborate on building understanding with others, for shared objectives or for fun.
If we achieve this, we will have increased our capacity to do great work, and to enjoy the delight of clear understanding!
We're a team of engineers and PhDs from Stanford and Wharton. We've designed and built systems at Microsoft Research and Google, and built recommendation systems & evaluated learning outcomes at scale in our research with Coursera and Khan Academy.
Join researchers, students, and lifelong learners who are already using Kerns to break through information barriers and build deeper understanding.