Verity web app

August 30, 2023 8:08 AM

Verity web app
A web app that uses AI to generate quizzes and score open-form answers on whatever topics you like.

Links to example exams:
* Geography of Denmark
* Mineralogy
* Norse mythology
* Soap operas from the 80s
* Plays of Shakespeare

You can easily create your own quizzes/exams, set the difficulty and creativity levels, and tinker with the AI prompt to get it to ask the kinds of questions you like.

Role: programmer

posted by thandal (6 comments total)

This is fun to play with, but as a first pass, it would be nice to get an idea of the replies that were expected, especially if you get the question wrong.
posted by jacquilynne at 10:36 AM on August 30, 2023 [1 favorite]

It's a fair point. I'm still evaluating how good the AI is at coming up with answers -- interestingly, being able to score answers doesn't necessarily equate!
posted by thandal at 1:35 PM on August 30, 2023

It is hard to know how it is scoring things. I got 1 out of 10 for writing "no idea". Fun to play with, though.
posted by jacquilynne at 4:51 PM on August 30, 2023 [1 favorite]

jacquilynne -- It's just scoring from 1 to 10. But I think you're saying 0 to 10 would make more sense, so that the score would be 0 for a totally wrong answer... which makes sense! I'll do that!
posted by thandal at 7:41 AM on August 31, 2023

I did the one on Moby-Dick and I'm very curious as to what the "correct" answers might be. The questions are not exactly ones with fixed answers. There are whole books written on some of these things. (I wrote a good chunk of a dissertation on Moby-Dick and if you ask me "What is the significance of the whale" I could go on at length.
posted by synecdoche at 1:53 PM on September 10, 2023

If you get exactly the passing score it fails you.
posted by jacquilynne at 2:19 PM on September 10, 2023