New Projects: SemanticPDF and "Eight Things Students Should Know About AI"
Introducing a new product and an article for students...
You are receiving this post because you have seen and subscribed for updates on future projects similar to CheckForAi.com— a nonprofit project I (Ben) created in early 2023 to help identify AI content. Since then, I shifted focus towards tools that help students and teachers use AI productively to advance learning.
I am excited to announce two of those projects have become public in the past week:
“Eight Things Students Should Know About AI”
Collaborating with others at Stanford University, I have published an informative article for students with a concise yet comprehensive breakdown of how Generative AI works and can be used to augment education.
“In order to ensure AI enhances rather than replaces your learning process, usage of LLMs requires engagement, reflection upon the problem and prior knowledge, and even some productive struggle through the assignment.”
You can read the article here: https://medium.com/@bklieger/eight-things-students-should-know-about-ai-f207b9b83ce8
SemanticPDF — Drag, Drop, Semantic Search
I have published SemanticPDF after realizing there were no simple and free apps to run a semantic search on an uploaded PDF. Unlike a keyword search which looks for exact keyword matches, semantic search allows you to describe what you are looking for in the search.
For instance, a search for “The sentence expressing that everything in nature has an opposite” in “Essays” by Ralph Waldo Emerson results in the sentence:
“An inevitable dualism bisects nature, so that each thing is a half, and suggests another thing to make it whole.”
I have open-sourced (repository) this project to help promote the use of the technology in new Edtech projects. The app uses no third-party APIs, meaning your data is never shared nor persistently stored. Give it a try! semanticpdf.com
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Thank you for reading,
Benjamin Klieger