Xueersi MathGPT has unveiled MathGPT's latest feature, "Ask Anytime" — an AI-powered math problem-solving tool now available for free public use.starting today.

Xueersi Education Group CTO Tian Mi introduced that this product breaks the shackles of traditional search tools that can only provide answers. It is based on generative AI technology, which guides and inspires students to solve mathematical problems, aiming to cultivate students' problem-solving thinking and improve their mathematical learning ability.

Guided thinking, personalized answers

Tian Mi stated that "Ask Anytime" based on a large language model is no longer just an answer provider, but hopes to become a "learning mentor."

When students use "Ask Anytime" to solve mathematical problems encountered in their studies, it does not directly provide the answer, but first analyzes the knowledge points and forms tested by the question, and then guides students to think step by step about how to solve the problem, helping them to gain inspiration in exploration. This method not only helps students better understand the problem but also cultivates their ability to independently solve problems.

For different learning scenarios and habits of students, Ask Anytime provides two explanation modes, which truly match the personalized explanation needs of students. Each explanation mode has its own focus and is presented to the user in the form of "Xiao Si Teacher" and "Xiao Zhi Teacher."

Unlike "Xiao Si Teacher", "Xiao Zhi Teacher" breaks down the problem-solving process into key steps, and students can ask questions about the key steps. For students who get stuck in key steps of problem-solving, effective clarification solutions are provided.

Every student's question is unique, and "Ask Anytime" deeply understands this. Therefore, it provides personalized answers based on specific questions, allowing students to not only know the answer but also master the underlying principles. Through this in-depth yet straightforward interactive teaching, students can reinforce relevant knowledge points and develop their own problem-solving strategies.

Simple operation, efficient learning

The design of "Ask Anytime" is simple and efficient. Students only need to open the app, take a photo to upload the question, and then enter the explanation process.

The high recognition OCR technology ensures the accurate recognition of the question, and the flow-like output of the large model provides students with a Socratic questioning teaching experience.

Considering the problem of many young students' incomplete literacy and limited patience, "Ask Anytime" supports voice playback and real-time feedback while displaying steps and explanation content, achieving practical "teaching" and truly realizing dialogic learning.

User experience is an important criterion for testing products. During the internal test phase, there was user feedback that, from the actual experience, the photo search function of "Ask Anytime" performed well. With just a snap, the high recognition OCR technology can accurately identify the question. In the question and answer AI explanation process, the system adopts Socratic-style explanations, self-judging the explanation plan for each step, driving the entire learning process with question and answer, making the whole learning process more vivid and interesting.

Tailoring education to enable every child to have a personalized "learning mentor"

"AI has brought the opportunity to redefine the education industry. The large model technology makes it possible to truly implement large-scale tailored education," Tian Mi explained. Tailoring education has always been the ultimate ideal of Chinese people for education, giving hope for a better future. With the emergence of large language models, people see the opportunity to realize this ideal.

"The essence of large models is a more efficient way of learning knowledge from data and applying it. With the blessing of AI capabilities, the new learning method of 'student self-study + AI question answering' has become widely possible. The threshold and cost of obtaining high-quality teaching content are reduced, and the personalization and refinement of teaching content continue to increase. It can achieve personalized and refined AI teaching and question answering, and each student can receive the most suitable learning content."

As the hosting unit of the national new generation of artificial intelligence open platform for smart education, last July, Xueersi launched the first domestic billion-level math large model -MathGPT. This is also one of the first education large models to be filed in China.

Related public evaluations show that from the current evaluation effect, the mathematical ability of the MathGPT is at the forefront of the industry. Especially in the interaction and questioning with students, the MathGPT is committed to achieving an explanation effect comparable to that of a one-on-one teacher.

Tian Mi said that in order for more students to enjoy high-quality education services, the Xueersi R&D team has launched the related service application Ask Anytime based on the Xueersi MathGPT, hoping to provide every child with a "math mentor" to carry with them, making math learning no longer a difficult problem. In the future, Ask Anytime applications will carry out co-construction activities with the teacher community, continuously iteratively optimizing the core teaching ability. With the rapid development of technology, it is believed that in the near future, every child will have a personalized smart learning mentor under the promotion of AI capabilities in smart education.

Source: China Daily https://tech.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202406/12/WS66695b3da3109f7860de1939.html