Does the world need a large amount of highly automated but poorly designed quizzes?
It addresses a poorly designed form of education. Until we address the stupidity of regurgitation of facts as a means of learning, if this helps someone generate flash cards to prep for exams, it's a positive thing.
An AI app that generates quizzes from a photograph of a texbook
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Re: An AI app that generates quizzes from a photograph of a texbook
#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
The days of voting literacy tests are not exactly a bright point in American history.
Every thing you can think of has been misused at some point in (not necessarily American) history.
Re: An AI app that generates quizzes from a photograph of a texbook
#43This looks wonderful, but it isn't a Show HN if people can't try it out. That's described at https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html . Once it's possible for users to try out, please do post it here. I'm sure many will be very interested. And email us a link at hn@ycombinator.com so we can make sure it doesn't get flagged.
Re: An AI app that generates quizzes from a photograph of a texbook
#44I would suggest adding a picture of the generated quiz. The images there don’t really tell me much; perhaps that’s intentional.
Re: An AI app that generates quizzes from a photograph of a texbook
#45OP, I'm going to go out on a limb and assume you are Taichi Kato? If not, I'm assuming he, Arya, and Khush will read this discussion. The three of you should be very proud of yourselves. This is a really cool, novel idea! The fact that you all are sophomores in high school is very impressive too. Continue to follow your passions and you will surely be very successful.
Re: An AI app that generates quizzes from a photograph of a texbook
#46Would any of the authors be willing to comment on how questions are generated (i.e. what algorithm)? Asking as somebody with a casual interest in AI
Re: An AI app that generates quizzes from a photograph of a texbook
#47This looks wonderful, but it isn't a Show HN if people can't try it out. That's described at https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html . Once it's possible for users to try out, please do post it here. I'm sure many will be very interested. And email us a link at hn@ycombinator.com so we can make sure it doesn't get flagged.
thank you for your response! We originally posted without "Show HN", don't know what happened there...