"Every parent wants to set their kids up for success, whatever your definition of success might be. And they want to feel like they're giving their kids every opportunity. There's just a question for people to answer, "What does that look like?" If you think that you're only in Singapore temporarily and you want to go back and have your kids slot back into your home country school system, it can make a ton of sense. Stick with the curriculum. Have that seamless transition. For other folks, you might be optimizing for different things. And I think there's always a question of cost. Thinking about what your budget is, and we just wanted to share that there is another option." - Shiyan Koh
"The pace of development in AI has been truly incredible. There is the money being spent on pushing the boundaries of what the technology can do, but then there’s the question of who's going to get the value capture once things are put into production and applied to very specific industry use cases? I think the US' worry is that they might put out all this great technology, but a lot of the know-how around the hard arts of manufacturing and supply chain were outsourced in that first wave of globalization. And it's hard to bring back." - Shiyan Koh
"AI is going to be better at always having a pleasant conversation, which is why there's a lot of debate around AI teddy bears, because people are putting AI into children's toys. I think there's going to be a witch hunt about AI teddy bears soon. The concern is real, and it goes back to the social media bubbles that were all in the algorithm. It’s really good because you no longer need to have a difficult conversation since you can always have a perfect one with AI instead. And there's going to be the interesting substitution effect that AI will have. That'll be my concern about letting kids use an AI teddy bear." - Jeremy Au
In this episode, Jeremy Au speaks on Singapore versus USA education systems, WEIRD AI teddy bears, and the US Senate $32B AI investment bill with Shiyan Koh.
Keywords: Singapore vs USA Education Systems, WEIRD AI Teddy Bears, US Senate $32B AI Investment Bill, Shiyan Koh, Southeast Asia, VC, Education, Thought Leadership
