Inspiration
Learning never ends. It's the cornerstone of societal progress and personal growth. It helps us make better decisions, fosters further critical thinking, and facilitates our contribution to the collective wisdom of humanity. Learning transcends the purpose of solely acquiring knowledge.
What it does
Understanding the importance of learning, we wanted to build something that can make learning more convenient for anyone and everyone. Being students in college, we often find ourselves meticulously surfing the internet in hopes of relearning lectures/content that was difficult. Although we can do this, spending half an hour to sometimes multiple hours is simply not the most efficient use of time, and we often leave our computers more confused than how we were when we started.
How we built it
A typical scenario goes something like this: you begin a Google search for something you want to learn about or were confused by. As soon as you press search, you are confronted with hundreds of links to different websites, videos, articles, news, images, you name it! But having such a vast quantity of information thrown at you isn’t ideal for learning. What ends up happening is that you spend hours surfing through different articles and watching different videos, all while trying to piece together bits and pieces of what you understood from each source into one cohesive generalization of knowledge. What if learning could be made easier by optimizing search? What if you could get a guided learning experience to help you self-learn?
That was the motivation behind Bloom. We wanted to leverage generative AI to optimize search specifically for learning purposes. We asked ourselves and others, what helps them learn? By using feedback and integrating it into our idea, we were able to create a platform that can teach you a new concept in a concise, understandable manner, with a test for knowledge as well as access to the most relevant articles and videos, thus enabling us to cover all types of learners. Bloom is helping make education more accessible to anyone who is looking to learn about anything.
Challenges we ran into
We faced many challenges when it came to merging our frontend and backend code successfully. At first, there were many merge conflicts in the editor but we were able to find a workaround/solution. This was also our first time experimenting with LangChain.js so we had problems with the initial setup and had to learn their wide array of use cases.
Accomplishments that we're proud of/What's next for Bloom
We are proud of Bloom as a service. We see just how valuable it can be in the real world. It is important that society understands that learning transcends the classroom. It is a continuous, evolving process that we must keep up with. With Bloom, our service to humanity is to make the process of learning more streamlined and convenient for our users. After all, learning is what allows humanity to progress. We hope to continue to optimize our search results, maximizing the convenience we bring to our users.
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