A course you talk back to
Talk with the minds who built AI
Timethos turns a reading assignment into an interview. Students read a short primer, then sit down with Turing, McCarthy, Hinton or Fei-Fei Li — and have to defend what they think.
Eleven lessons · eleven conversations
How a lesson goes
01
Read
A ten-minute primer written from inside the figure’s own frame of reference — what they knew, what they had not seen yet. Technical terms are defined on hover, so nobody stalls on vocabulary.
02
Converse
Then you meet them, by voice or by typing. The conversation follows an arc: they push back, ask what you mean, and will not let a vague answer stand. You have to hold up your end.
03
Bring it to class
Every conversation ends with a prep card — the line you want to open discussion with, and a short reflection. Your teacher reads real thinking instead of collecting another worksheet.
Conversations are just practice, never graded. Completing a lesson is the only thing recorded as done or not done.
For educators
Built for the person running the room
Timethos is not a chatbot you point students at and hope. You set the arc, you see the transcripts, and you walk in knowing what the class actually thinks.
- Cohorts and join codes
- Spin up a class, hand out a code, and see who has actually done the reading — not just who clicked through it.
- A brief before the bell
- Each session generates a pre-class brief: where students got stuck, which questions split the room, and the three openers worth using.
- Author your own course
- Not teaching the history of AI? Build your own figures, readings, and conversation arcs in the studio. No prompt engineering required.
Your instructor can review your conversations, prep cards, and reflections, and sees class-level themes across the cohort. Students are told this at sign-up and again before every conversation.
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