waam

WAAM is an AI STEM tutor based on the GPT-4 API. The purpose of this virtual tutor is to guide students in understanding problems on their own.

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Inspiration

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We have used Chat-GPT in the past to help us study for our classes. We wanted to use Chat-GPT capabilities to help tutor students, acting more as a teacher as opposed to a machine that spits out answers. It also can serve as a remote substitute when a qualified tutor is not available.

What it does

Have you ever wanted help but you do not know who to go to? Generally, tutors do not allow students to search up homework problems on google or ask peers because they want students to think through what they are doing. You might have wanted to go to school approved tutoring places such as CMC’s QCL or Pomona’s QSC, but they might not be available on weekends when you actually do all your homework. We sympathize with students so we want to build a platform that can help students with homework anytime they want help. Tutors will be more willing to approve this platform because it will never give homework solutions. What it will do instead is that It will clarify concepts that students are struggling with or provide hints for homework problems. Basically students can ask a question on the chat box in any area of study such as Math, Physics, Economics, Statistics etc. As long as the question is not about providing a solution, GPT-4 will generate an answer that will include visualizations. If a student asks for a solution, GPT-4 will politely say no and give the students additional ways it could help.

How we built it

WAAM was made using Streamlit, GPT-4, LangChain, and JSON

Challenges we ran into

Every part of this project was unfamiliar territory for everybody involved. The greatest chunk of our time was spent learning tools, doing research, and sharing communal resources. With this inexperience came many hurdles. Streamlit, LangChain, and JSON all have unique, individual needs. Not all of these were met. When things didn’t work as they were meant to and we had no idea where to find a hint of a clue, we had to put our heads down and keep writing anyway!

Accomplishments that we're proud of

All of us learned something new. With inexperience in hackathons all around, this was our first encounter with problem-solving and design of this scope. We got through it and are better programmers and creators because of it.

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