AI has been on everyone's lips lately, especially in the art community where it sparks a lot of controversy. While it's true that AI comes with its fair share of concerns and potential misuses, I believe that when used responsibly, it can be a powerful and invaluable tool. In the realm of education, AI has the potential to really change the way we learn. It can facilitate faster skill development, fuel creativity, and maybe even democratize knowledge access.

In the past few months, we have been working on an experiment. It's an Unreal Engine application prototype, called "Access Point AI". And I would love to hear your thoughts on that. 

Here is a short description of the technology:

Access Point AI is basically an end-to-end audio-visual system that enables users to communicate with an AI via natural language. You speak into the microphone and the digital avatar responds to your questions. It's feels less like request-response experience, but more like having a real dialogue with an intelligent entity that understands your intentions and responds accordingly,

Current features of the app

At the core of our application lies a system of speech recognition (speech-to-text) and speech synthesis (text-to-speech). That makes it possible to have a seamless conversational experience. The Open AI API allows us to generate intelligent responses to user requests using the latest GPT model. 

To bring the virtual avatars to life, we use Epic's Metahuman Creator, which - in my humble opinion - is currently the most advanced tool for digital human creation. Our avatars are programmed to possess unique personalities and responses, which makes the conversations with them more engaging and interactive.

Different application possibilities

Our core technology offers numerous applications. At present, we have two options that we are working on.

Option 1: A personalized learning and conversation space. Our female avatar, AIDA, can engage in meaningful and captivating conversations and act as an expert tutor on a topic of the user's choice. The app creates a topic outline based on the user's interest and guides them through a course-like process with small quizzes in between to reinforce their learning.

Option 2: A history mode option, which enables users to learn about history. Users can directly converse with a “person” from the past. We are working on a growing database of famous personalities from different eras, allowing users to select their preferred historical figure to learn about their life, culture, and events. 

Here is also a short teaser for the historical mode of the app: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nm0gzl-yXso&t=11s

What are your thoughts on AI-powered educational tools like this one?