An AI app that generates quizzes from a photograph of a texbook
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#2OP, 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.
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#3Are you legally allowed to copy the contents of these textbooks? If I recall there is often on the first page of textbooks long legal texts which prohibits copying of any kind without written consent from the authors.
Re: An AI app that generates quizzes from a photograph of a texbook
#4OP, 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.
Haha, I am Taichi. Thank you so much!
Re: An AI app that generates quizzes from a photograph of a texbook
#5Are you legally allowed to copy the contents of these textbooks? If I recall there is often on the first page of textbooks long legal texts which prohibits copying of any kind without written consent from the authors.
What our algorithm does is, we convolute the text from the textbooks to create questions such as "How did Hitler die?" from texts like "In August 1945, Hitler killed himself." from the textbook. So usually, that ends up being significantly different to the original texts in the textbook.
Re: An AI app that generates quizzes from a photograph of a texbook
#6Are you legally allowed to copy the contents of these textbooks? If I recall there is often on the first page of textbooks long legal texts which prohibits copying of any kind without written consent from the authors.
IIRC and IANAL, but, copyright laws are about reproducing text, e.g. taking this text and republishing it without consent of the copyright holder. In this case that does not apply; while the app does copy the text (and possibly sends it to their servers), this text is not republished.
Re: An AI app that generates quizzes from a photograph of a texbook
#7Are you legally allowed to copy the contents of these textbooks? If I recall there is often on the first page of textbooks long legal texts which prohibits copying of any kind without written consent from the authors.
I don't think it's copying verbatim, it might be caching it for a short while but not saving it (based on what I'm reading about the technology).
So the more interesting question here: is a computer legally allowed to generate an original interpretation of text on a page?
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#8This is fantastic. Congrats to the team! Education is an area that is still behind on using tech to dramatically improve the learning process so I'm very excited to see more work in this area.
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I was looking into doing something similar for a side project and got discouraged by my lack of a strong ML background. This is both great work and inspirational. Time to go dust off that repo..
Re: An AI app that generates quizzes from a photograph of a texbook
#9Are you legally allowed to copy the contents of these textbooks? If I recall there is often on the first page of textbooks long legal texts which prohibits copying of any kind without written consent from the authors.
What our algorithm does is, we convolute the text from the textbooks to create questions such as "How did Hitler die?" from texts like "In August 1945, Hitler killed himself." from the textbook. So usually, that ends up being significantly different to the original texts in the textbook.
I don't know how you are doing this, but with NNs there's still be the chance that result contains significant parts of the text-books.
I am not a lawyer, but because you are only interested in the syntactic equality (the sematic being the same) i think a simple algorithm like something based on edit-distance may be able to exclude such cases.
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#10This made me think of the Norwegian news site that required readers to take a quiz before commenting: https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/ne...
Combining these two ideas could be really neat -- I wonder if it could even be sold as a service a la disqus.