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Show HN: Generate quiz questions using AI
One of the coolest things I've been able to get GPT-3 to do is generate questions based on a piece of text.
So, I built a simple site to help others do the same. Hopefully, this can be useful to teachers, trainers, or just anyone who wants to create a fun and unique quiz.
- EvanDotPro 4y agoJust showed this to a middle school science and math teacher I'm friends with and wanted to share that she thinks this is awesome and will probably save her a ton of time. Great idea and great work. :)
- aliu22 4y agoIf someone built this as a Chrome extension to quiz based off my browsing I’d totally pay for it.
- asmmoto 4y agoGreat work! I copy-pasted an article from Wikipedia and it generated one wrong question (all the answers were correct), but the quality of the questions was pretty good.
- jwblackwell 4y agoThanks! It’s very much a first pass but surprisingly effective. I have a few ideas to improve quality. Fine tuning for example
- endisneigh 4y agoThis is pretty neat. Is it open source?
- domlebo70 4y agoThis is amazing. You going to monetize this? Another idea would be to accept a Wikipedia URL and have it generate questions
- jwblackwell 4y agoThanks. You can enter a Wikipedia URL in already! Just hit the URL tab at the top. I will keep it free for occasional users. The GPT3 bill will need to be paid, though, so if there's demand, I'll add a paid tier.
- JimRyan 4y agoYou could also allow people to enter their own key right? Great work though on this. I tested it out on some technical topics on Wikipedia and it did a very good job. Love the UI also and enjoyed using it.
- moritonal 4y agoVery cool, I created essentially the same product but hadn't launched due to all the boilerplate I wanted. It's lovely isn't it watching how cleanly the questions and answers come out?
- another_story 4y agoWould you mind discussing a bit the process in building something like this?
- Vt71fcAqt7 4y agoTommorow: Show HN: answer quiz questions using AI (answerowl.com)
- jwblackwell 4y agoQuizgecko gives you the answers as well ;)
- Le0C 4y agoGreat idea! Will you make the model or source code available? I would love to play with this locally.
- aaron695 4y ago
- blowski 4y agoThis looks really useful. I run pub quizzes in the UK and often have to go through this process manually. The manual text entry worked well. But the “from URL” option returned 10 questions of “what is the answer to this question?”.
- jwblackwell 4y agoYeah, sometimes the site can't be scraped. Best to copy and paste for now if that happens. I'll try make the scraping more reliable soon
- planetsprite 4y agoMake sure to rate limit so noone can drain your credits
- TotoHorner 4y agoCan you talk a little bit about how you built this? What kind of prompt etc? I'd like to do something similar but with a much, much higher word count. Thank you.
- bil7 4y agothis is actually amazing! no sign up, just an awesome, powerful, useful, application of AI.
- peytoncasper 4y agoThis is a really awesome application of GPT-3. You should definitely consider turning this into a service and adding the ability to generate Anki decks or flash cards from summary notes. That coupled with the quizzing capability could be huge for students in medical school for example.
- abhisuri97 4y agoas a med student, i'd 100% pay for this service if it can take my in house lecture ppts as input
- imposter 4y agoyou got it mate!
- jwblackwell 4y agoI agree file upload would be great. I almost added before launch, but figured it would take a while to do properly. I'll try and monetize it a bit this week as the bills are getting high quickly, this can probably be a paid feature.
- furbol 4y agoThis could be used on any any commenting system or even Reddit to check if the user has read the article and or have knowledge of something before commenting. Sort of a captcha.
- imranq 4y agoI've been looking for something like this for a while. Really nice and clean UI. there's so much potential for question generation, but one of them is helping people understand whether they got through a page or section with good comprehension before they move on to the next section
- strangus 4y agoThis is great.
- barryvan 4y agoAwesome idea, and I really like the implementation! It'd be great to see an integration with something like Moodle -- so that educators could generate quiz questions based on course content automatically, eliminating the "blank page" when they start putting together a quiz.
- jwblackwell 4y agoYeah some integrations with learning management systems are on the cards.
- ronnier 4y agoBlown away by this. I copy text from a CNN article and the questions were spot on. So good that it seemed human generated.
- 91Jacob 4y agoThis is a threat to English learning book publishers. It literally generates a reading comprehension test.
- vore 4y agoVery cool! Though I did put in the physics example and got this: 2. What is a physicist? Choices [ ] A scientist who studies the natural world [x] A scientist who studies the field of physics [ ] A scientist who specializes in the field of physics [ ] A scientist who intersects with many interdisciplinary areas of research Whoops! Try again
- barbariangrunge 4y agoPlease no. Writing good quizzes is really hard and the last thing we need is to throw ai into the mix
- jwblackwell 4y agoDid you give it a try?
- capableweb 4y agoNot sure what the problem is? If the AI outputs bad quizzes, you have nothing to worry about, no one would use it. If the output is good, then it seems like it's a win-win?
- owenpalmer 4y agotrue, but don't forget there's a lot of lazy teachers out there
- nyc111 4y agoVery nice! I entered this text: “Whereas most of his preceding lectures simply come to an end, Feynman ends this one more philosophically, speculating that the order in the universe we see today is not a statistical fluctuation but a memory of initial conditions.” These are the questions: Which of the following is true? A) Most of Feynman's lectures simply come to an end) B) This lecture ends more philosophically) C) Feynman speculates that the order in the universe is a statistical fluctuation) Answer: B What does Feynman speculate about the order in the universe? A) That it is a statistical fluctuation) B) That it is a memory of initial conditions) C) That it is something else entirely) Answer: B What is the order in the universe? A) Random B) Organized C) Unknown Answer: B How does Feynman end this lecture? A) With a question) B) With a thought) C) With an answer) Answer: B What does Feynman speculate about the order in the universe we see today? A) That it is a statistical fluctuation) B) That it is a memory of initial conditions) C) That it is something else entirely) Answer: B
- chickenimprint 4y agoIt seems to spit out nonsense questions with little relevance to the text. Given a text about grass, it might ask: "what is green?" followed by 3 actually green things, one of them being grass. It's a fancy cloze generator. It has no understanding of which constituent parts of a sentence are related to the subject and does not generate alternative answers that are reliably wrong.
- oneepic 4y agoThe site is being hugged to death unfortunately (or something... I'm getting HTTP 500's on every attempt). I was trying to get it to quiz me on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_your_base_are_belong_to_us https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_your_base_are_belong_to_us, but sadly I'll have to try again later.
- shadeslayer_ 4y agoThis is not working anymore, getting 500's on every attempt.
- jwblackwell 4y agoHit a rate limit, should be working again but I will have to limit access to non logged in accounts as this has blown up
- jwblackwell 4y agoThis has blown up more than expected. Thanks, everyone. I will unfortunately have to put a restriction in place though as I am going to exhaust my OpenAI quota. I am waiting for them to approve an increase. Please follow me on Twitter and register an account on the site for updates. I'll give the first 100 or so users extra free credits in the future
- boomeranked 4y agoFantastique. I'd be happy to pay for this service with an API access. We run team building events and trivia is so popular. Your service would save us hours monthly.
- jwblackwell 4y agoI will be adding an API and some integrations. Please register a free account now and I'll send out an email when it's ready: https://quizgecko.com/register https://quizgecko.com/register
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- jwblackwell 4y agoSorry! Had to quickly tweak some backend limits because my api credits are almost out
- notefuel 4y agoShameless plug about our note-taking and flashcards app Notefuel that is built on this idea: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/notefuel-notes-flashcards/id1458567718?platform=iphone https://apps.apple.com/us/app/notefuel-notes-flashcards/id14... Uses GPT-3 to generates question, fill-in-the-blanks, multiple choice and couples it with spaced repetition.
- kamban 4y agoThis is really cool. I saw a similar tool, https://www.questgen.ai/ https://www.questgen.ai/, I am not a teacher, though.
- paxvinci 4y agoI tried with a text in Non-English language and it understood very well the text and the questions were "translated" in English.