AlexErrant
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1 year ago Hm, I can't tell if you're asking for AI features in general, or if you just want AI-generated flash cards. If you're looking for AI features in general, I don't really think that way. I like to think of problems first and then their possible solutions.
For automatic card generation, I'm fairly bearish on AI-generated cards. Good cards are hard to write, and I'm not convinced AI would be able to capture the nuance of a good card. Gathering the training data and then training the models isn't something that I'm particularly interested in, at least in the foreseeable future. I would have access to the output data (the Question/Answer prompts), but not the input data (the raw (potentially copyrighted) textbook/reference material). Still, this is why there are plugins - this would be fairly trivial to write a plugin once the model exists - you can do whatever you want client-side! I like what StackOverflow does with releasing datasets - I plan on making the data available, so if someone else wants to train a model they'll know what I know. I'm open to changing my mind - please feel free to persuade me! Most of this thought process applies to any client-side AI, e.g. auto-tagging/classification, text-to-speech, speech-to-text, etc. Plugins could give all of these capabilities; AI is just an impl detial. More generally, AI generated cards seems to be trying to solve the problem of "writing cards is difficult", which I totally get. However, I feel like "people sharing cards they've written" is a better solution than "use generative AI".
I do see a place for AI on the server, for example a recommendation algorithm similar to YouTube's. Something I'm intrigued by is the possibility of automatically detecting poorly written cards. If, say, 25% of students keep hitting "Bury/Hard/Again" on a card, that could be a sign to the author that the card needs rewording... but that would require people to upload their reviews to my server, which is an area of privacy concern. I haven't thought about this too much - I still need to build the basic functionality 😅 This project in its current state is very much unusable - it doesn't even have a way to review cards!
vasnt
would love if AI feature like Automatic flashcard generation, labelling cards can be added.