Google's 'Socratic' Learning App Now Uses AI to Help High School, College Students

Google has announced that a mobile learning app chosen 'Socratic' that information technology acquired terminal twelvemonth, at present uses AI to help loftier school and university students when they're doing schoolwork exterior the classroom. "It guides them through the resources that are available, and identifies the core underlying concepts that will lead them to answers to their questions", the company said on its official blog.

According to Google, the app is the consequence of its efforts at building educational resources for students and addressing the challenges they face up while studying by themselves. "We've heard that students often get 'stuck' while studying. When they accept questions in the classroom, a teacher can quickly analyze—but it's frustrating for students who spend hours trying to find answers while studying on their own", the visitor said.

To accost the trouble, Google says it worked with educators to create subject guides on over 1,000 higher teaching and high schoolhouse topics, including, but non express to, science, math, English, social studies and more. The app allows students to look up any topic they demand to brush upwardly on, get the key points, and then go deeper with helpful resources on the web.

Users can get help past taking a photograph of a question or utilize their vocalisation to ask a question, whereupon, the app volition detect the virtually relevant resource from across the web. Students volition also be able to check out culling explanations of certain concepts by but taking a motion-picture show of a page they are struggling to understand.

Google claims that the new features are the issue of its latest AI-based algorithms that can now wait at a educatee'south question and automatically identify the relevant underlying concepts. "From in that location, we tin detect the videos, concept explanations, and online resources to help them work through their questions", the company said.

Socratic is available on both Android and iOS, only the new features are currently simply bachelor on iOS and are slated to be rolled out to Android this fall.