Point the camera at your homework question, and Socratic will teach you how to answer it! The Socratic app combines cutting-edge Artificial Intelligence (AI) with amazing educational content to make learning on your phone easy.
Trained on millions of sample homework questions, the app can accurately predict which concepts will help you solve your question. Socratic’s team of educators is creating highly-visual, jargon-free content to teach every important high school curriculum concept, and is curating the best online videos from sources like Khan Academy, Crash Course, and others.
The Socratic app represents a huge improvement in how students learn on the Internet.
And I love this team @cjpedregal@5hreyans (full disclosure: yes, we at Shasta are investors)
Hey everyone, I’m Shreyans, one of the founders of Socratic. We're thrilled to share Socratic with you!
This super short video is probably the easiest way to understand when, why, and how a student would use Socratic:
To help make learning easier for students, we do two new and challenging things:
First, our AI lets you take a picture of a question, reads it, and classifies each question by the underlying concepts required to answer the question. In order to build this, educators had to manually classify hundreds of thousands of questions, and then we trained a computer to do the same thing.
Second, we create our own high-quality mobile-friendly teaching content that we believe is simpler and easier to learn from than most of what exists on the Internet today.
Our hope is that this technology makes learning more accessible for students who don’t have personal tutors or parents that can help with science homework.
We believe this will be hugely valuable for students, and are excited to be at the beginning of this long journey.
Hey @andrewett, thanks for the question.
Photo-as-input is definitely a similarity (one that we see in other education apps like PhotoMath, MathPix, Yup), and behind the scenes, there’s some AI in both.
Most other things about us are quite different.
Our goal is to teach students how to answer their questions, and to do that we’ve done two (fairly challenging) things.
First, we’ve built our own AI classifier that takes a random question and classifies it by subject and by the specific underlying concepts required to answer that question. Educators categorized hundreds of thousands of questions into their underlying concepts, then we trained a computer to do the same thing. As far as we know, this doesn’t yet exist anywhere else.
Second, we create our own teaching content. We’ve spent quite a while thinking about what style and structure of content is easiest for students to learn from on their phones, and are working with a community of educators to create this content for every relevant concept.
Together, the experience we offer students is quite new, and (we think) hard to replicate.
Socratic is a lifesaver for students who need help with their homework. Whether it’s math, science, history, or literature, this app can find the best online resources to explain any problem. You can ask Socratic a question by voice or camera, and the app will use Google AI to find videos, step-by-step solutions, and expert-created study guides for you. You can also browse through different subjects and topics to learn at your own pace. Socratic is more than just a cheating app; it’s a learning app that helps you understand the concepts behind any problem. I highly recommend Socratic to anyone who wants to improve their grades and learn new things. It’s like having a personal tutor in your pocket!
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