I used Meta's Muse to help my son prep for an astronomy quiz. He aced it.

I used Meta's Muse to help my son prep for an astronomy quiz. He aced it. Franco Lopez This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Franco Lopez, a 53-year-old from Miami who works in insurance. Business Insider confirmed his son's perfect quiz score. This essay has been edited for length and clarity.I got Muse a couple of weeks ago. I have been hopping on every AI since the very beginning. I talk about it all day, and am completely overwhelmed and excited.I was playing with Grok Bot a lot and loving it. Then I saw Muse, I downloaded it, I tried it, and it felt different. It seemed like a better all-around product, so I ended up canceling my Grok subscription, just like I did with Claude and ChatGPT before that.Now, I'm full-time on Muse and sharing it with everyone I know.I'm a father of four kids, and two of them go to school. Schools email you a lot on a daily basis. I'll get sometimes 30 emails combined between the two schools: homework, events, and payments due. It's a nightmare to keep up with.I have Muse recognizing all of the emails coming in and creating a digest posted into my "Family Operations" Slack channel. I have a daily digest for both of my kids by name, so I know what uniform they have to wear that day, if any homework is due, and I'm on top of it.I shared it with my wife and gave her access to the Slack channel. She loves it as well. When it doesn't work for us, we just make modifications. Sometimes it gets a little too verbose. We say, "Can you trim it down a little bit?"I've done that with the soccer team. I have a Slack channel that all the parents have access to, so we all have one page to review what the coach said, what color shirt to wear on Saturday, how much to bring for the ref fees, all that stuff.I stopped reading emails. I have robots that read emails for me. How Muse helped my son prep for his quizMy wife delegated this one assignment. She said, "I need you to get on this science vocabulary quiz," and handed me this wrinkled-up page.I'm reinforcing something my 10-year-old has already looked at a thousand times. All the fun has already been squeezed out. Lopez's son had to memorize astronomy terms from a crumpled worksheet. Franco Lopez I said to Muse, "What can you do to help him understand this? Can you create some kind of quiz?"I had done this homework experiment with Claude back in the day. I expected something similar: it was very blocky, very straightforward. I got something very different.Muse's was very bubbly and colorful. It had his name on it and an encouraging message. It absorbed that the material was about astronomy, and it added rocket decorations.It was two tabs: the typical flashcard experience, and then a multiple-choice quiz. In the end, it graded him and gave him the opportunity to do it again. The second time, he got an 80 or 90%. He'd done well, and it was getting late anyway, because it was soccer night. Muse made Franco Lopez's son flashcards and a multiple-choice quiz. Franco Lopez The next morning, the day of the quiz, I asked, "What else can we do to reinforce learning?"Muse created a podcast. It was seven minutes, a perfect length, and he was amazed. It caught his attention. It covered all the material with fun and tips to remember it.I finished it, and I prayed that he did well.Mom picked him up that day, and he didn't say anything to me. Later on that day, I heard from mom that he aced it. He got 100.I went up to him and said, "Dude, you didn't tell me you aced it." He goes, "Oh, yeah," like it wasn't a big deal. He had never gotten a 100, not because he can't, but because he hasn't been engaged.I'm feeling confident about AI and educationKids are watching really great content, made by people who are experts at retaining your attention. If that teacher is slightly boring, the kid is going to tune them out. Teachers don't stand a chance unless they build some level of personality.I don't think the classroom piece is going to be successful. I think AI-to-human learning will be cheaper and faster.I see everything changing. I'm in a soccer team with a bunch of parents, and I have conversations with people who have never even opened AI. They're living in a completely different reality. I've tried to break the news, but it's really a subject that only a few of us are handling right now.I don't think there's such a thing as too much AI in parenting. I think there's a wrong use and a right use. My goal is to help him learn how to do it, not give him the answer. I can use it every day and twice on Sunday, as long as I use it to empower him.You don't have to stop doing what you're doing what you're doing as a parent to deal with AI. You can continue to be the parent you need to be.You're just getting some help. You're offloading. You're getting employees. Read next Henry Chandonnet is a senior reporter on the Business News desk. He writes about tech culture, from Silicon Valley's startup class to the everyday AI user. He also closely covers Big Tech and the workplace. Henry previously wrote for Fast Company, where he covered trending tech news. He's written for The Daily Beast, People Magazine, and Vulture.Email Henry at hchandonnet@insider.com, reach him on Signal at henrychand.30, or follow him on X @HenryChandonnet. as told to Meta Education More Parenting