Inspiration
Inspired from personal experiences, reading academic writing can oftentimes be difficult due to the formal academic languages being used. With this in mind, we aimed to create a tool to easily simplify text that may be confusing.
What it does
It is a chrome extension that takes the text that users highlighted, and returns an eli5 (explain like I'm 5) for the selected content through artificial intelligence.
How we built it
It was built using html, javascript, css, and utilized api calls from Cohere AI to generate the simplified messages.
Challenges we ran into
One of the main challenges that we ran into was getting the api calls to work, as troubleshooting that took a significant amount of time. After a lot of hard work, we were able to pull through and create a reliable working product.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
We're proud of actually getting it the extension working, as numerous hours were spent on trying different api call methods and api endpoints until it eventually worked.
What we learned
Through this project, we picked up new coding languages, learned how api calls worked, and learned how to create a chrome extension
What's next for Highli5
The next thing we have in mind for highli5 is to create a variety of options for the level of text to generate from the highlighted text. Moreover, we intend to make the extension generate quizzes for the selected topic to help the user get a more in depth understanding of the selected topic.
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