AI Teaching Assistant

Use at https://whyth.app or deploy your own.

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Overview

Powered by OpenAI API, this app brings an educational wrapper over ChatGPT you know so well.

But wait, it's more what just a wrapper, it also can limit AI in a lot of ways. (WIP)

It also can use your own material to teach and answer questions (Coming Soon)

Key Features

1. Custom Lesson Creation for Teachers

• Teachers can create lessons by entering a subject/topic and a brief description or outline.
• (WIP) Also, limit the usage of AI by the students (for example: not give out answers to the problems, or don't talk about specific topics)
• (WIP) Teachers can use their own to enhance the AI's knowledge base.

2. Easy Lesson Joining for Students

• Students can join lessons using a unique lessonID or a link provided by their teacher.
• The AI uses the provided subject/topic and any additional resources to generate contextually relevant responses.

3. AI-Driven Chat for Interactive Learning

• Students can interact with the AI chat assistant to ask questions, discuss concepts, or request explanations.
• The AI provides answers, clarifications, and examples based on the subject/topic and any additional resources supplied by the teacher.

Development setup

First of all, update subomdules:

git submodule update --remote --recursive

Backend

Note: You need redis-server running on your machine

1. Create .env
2. Set API_KEY environrment variable
3. Run main.go

Refer to .env.example and config.go for the complete list of env variables.

Frontend

1. npm install
2. Uncomment setupProxy.js (for CORS issues)
3. npm start

Roadmap

Work in progress

• Use system message to limit AI responses
• Teacher can configure the AI's behaviour (several options to map to system message)
• Teacher can Upload PDF files for AI to use as reference (use langchain)

Needs to be done

1. Chat markdown formatting
2. Chat prompt suggestions
3. Stream AI response instead of loader
4. Responsive UI for mobile devices
5. Fine-tuning the model to deliver clear & concise responses

Possible features

1. Lesson management for a teacher & multiple lessons
2. AI can Represent graphs & formulas (for math & physics)
3. Multiple chat sessions (to be able to switch between them)
4. Custom lesson timeouts
5. Responsive UI for mobile devices
6. Mobile app