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Convert textbook to online course with AI expert

skillgnist.no

20 pointsTheodorSTTH18 comments

Want skillgnist for you school, collage, univercity, company or organization?

Two spelling errors in one sentence - really?

Should've let the AI proofread

Three - "for you school", collage, univercity

There are spelling and grammar errors all over. What's weird is that parts of this reek of AI generation (check out the terms of service and privacy policy pages), and parts seem like ESL issues. ChatGPT could certainly suggest spelling and grammar fixes which would make this seem a bit more professional.

I know that we're not supposed to focus on things like this, but in this case these errors seem like a a good reason to doubt the accuracy and usefulness of the service.

And then the name is really odd. Brand names where the pronunciation is unclear seem like a bad idea.

Thanks for the feedback. Didn't realize SkillGnist has unclear pronunciation, might look into a name change.

XD, English is not my first language. It's fixed now

SkillGnist lets you create a course from any PDF of any length in 10 minutes. Courses have a custom AI agent with knowledge from entire PDF, tasks and articles. I made this because i think focused and pointed learning with maximal personalization is not provided by large learning websites or most education institutions.

Interesting idea. But you need to go into more detail on your data handling - is it safe to upload proprietary information to make an internal course? Where does the data go? OpenAI?

You might also want to make a course about GDPR and then update your privacy policy.

Shameless self-plug but your questions (especially combined with the product posted) are the raison d'etre for our whole company: https://singulatron.com/

The data goes through OpenAI and we store PDF's uploaded.

  > The agent helps you whenever, i contrast to a teacher.

  ^i^in

Interestingly, there is only a single letter i in that sentence, so the simple Bash replacement actually works ))

Would you want to take a course that was generated?

Not unless someone credible had reviewed that course for quality first (and ideally iterated on it a bit to improve it).

Would you want to sell a course online without having to do the work to actually make it? (Slightly embarrassed to admit I find the idea appealing, albeit immoral)

No, because I value my reputation. I won’t put my name to anything I’m not proud to be associated with.

I actually publish quite a lot of stuff with AI assistance this day (code, not writing) and whenever I do I’m transparent with what I used the AI for.

You aren't able to share or sell your courses. Perhaps i should make that more clear...

Right now it's a bit early stage. Please tell me what you would like to see improved / features you'd like. Also what you don't want

If I’m going to take time out of my busy adult life to better myself, I’m probably going to prefer materials prepared by an expert who cares.

The scarce resource here is not high quality learning material, but time and effort.

Perhaps this idea has most value in new fields without established material.

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