Ethan Pierce - AI Helps Kids Read

<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Aging Fit Substack: <a href= "https://saldaher.substack.com/">Learn More</a></span></p> <p class="p1"> </p> <p class="p1"><span class="s1">Ethan Pierce’s startup Adaptive Reader makes great literature accessible to kids not reading at grade level. Harnessing generative AI with sophisticated prompts and quality control by humans creates compelling texts based on the classics. Ethan and his co-founder even have a promising business model. Great chat!</span></p> <p class="p2"> </p> <p class="p2">Sponsored by Purdue University entrepreneurship and Peter Fasse, patent attorney at Fish and Richardson.</p> <p class="p2"> </p> <p class="p1"><span class="s1">Highlights:</span></p> <ul class="ul1"> <li class="li3"><span class="s1">Sal Daher Introduces Ethan Pierce</span></li> <li class="li3"><span class="s1">Adaptive Reader and What it is Solving</span></li> <li class="li3"><span class="s1">"... It's much better if they have this contact with the author, albeit in a structure that's simplified. After all, we're always reading Dante in the translation. We're reading Homer in the translation. It doesn't make it any less compelling..."</span></li> <li class="li3"><span class="s1">Teachers' Opinions of Adaptive Reader</span></li> <li class="li3"><span class="s1">"... That controversy, the conversation, the passion around helping these students read is really important and that's why we've been really grounded in research here and these conversations with these experts. I think talking to these teachers, the biggest challenge that they face is just getting kids to read at all..."</span></li> <li class="li3"><span class="s1">Ethan's Entrepreneurial Journey</span></li> <li class="li3"><span class="s1">Palette</span></li> <li class="li3"><span class="s1">How Adaptive Reader Came About</span></li> <li class="li3"><span class="s1">How Can Listener's Participate in Adaptive Reader</span></li> </ul> <p class="p2"> </p> <p class="p1"><span class="s1">Topics: discovering entrepreneurship, product, robotics