Filosof.ai

Have you ever wondered if your actions followed philosophical teachings? Or maybe you’ve been thinking of starting your diary? Look no further than Filosof.ai (fee-lah-soh-fai)

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Inspiration

Each of us are interested in philosophy and find ourselves thinking about our day-to-day actions from a philosophical lens.

What it does

Users input diary entries, and an AI analyzes their writing, matching them with different popular philosophical perspectives (Stoicism, Nihilism, etc.). Users can see how much their writing aligns with each perspective by percentages. The AI also draws comparisons between diary entries and asks the user insightful questions to reflect on.

How we built it

We used Flask for the backend and HTML with Bootstrap 5 for the frontend. The app leverages the OpenAI API, specifically the GPT-4o-mini model.

Challenges we ran into

We had to do a lot of prompt engineering to get the AI to respond most reasonably to prompts. Additionally, we had to define a heuristic to determine whether a diary entry was gibberish while carefully avoiding false positives that could be hurtful to the user.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We are proud that the AI provides percentage matches for each philosophical perspective.

What we learned

We gained valuable experience in prompt engineering as well as some web design.

What's next for Two MIT One Duke

If possible, we aim to turn the website into a mobile app and add more functionality for users to interact with the AI, allowing them to ask questions about its analysis.

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