Brilla AI：国家科学与数学竞赛的人工智能参赛者
Brilla AI: AI Contestant for the National Science and Maths Quiz
AI总结：
本文提出 Brilla AI，作为首个在加纳国家科学与数学竞赛中现场参赛的人工智能，通过集成语音转文本、问题提取、问答和文本转语音系统，在 2023 年总决赛谜语轮中非正式获得并列第二名，展示了人工智能辅助科学教育的潜力。
摘要：
非洲大陆缺乏足够的合格教师，这阻碍了提供充分的学习支持。人工智能有可能增强有限数量教师的努力，从而带来更好的学习成果。为此，本工作描述并评估了 NSMQ AI Grand Challenge 的首个关键成果，该挑战为此类人工智能提出了一个稳健的真实世界基准：“构建一个人工智能，在加纳国家科学与数学竞赛（NSMQ）中现场竞争并获胜——在比赛的所有轮次和阶段中表现优于最佳参赛者”。NSMQ 是加纳一年一度的高中生现场科学与数学竞赛，3 支由 2 名学生组成的队伍通过回答生物学、化学、物理学和数学问题，在 5 个渐进阶段的 5 轮比赛中竞争，直到决出当年的获胜队伍。在这项工作中，我们构建了 Brilla AI，一个我们部署的人工智能参赛者，在 2023 年 NSMQ 总决赛的谜语轮中非正式地远程现场竞争，这是该竞赛 30 年历史上的首次。Brilla AI 目前作为一个网络应用可用，直播竞赛的谜语轮，并运行 4 个机器学习系统：（1）语音转文本（2）问题提取（3）问答和（4）文本转语音，它们实时协同工作，快速准确地提供答案，然后用加纳口音说出来。在首次亮相中，我们的人工智能在 4 个谜语中回答了一个，领先于 3 支人类参赛队伍，非正式地获得第二名（并列）。这一人工智能的改进和扩展有可能被部署用于为学生提供科学辅导，并最终使非洲数百万学生能够进行一对一的学习互动，实现科学教育的民主化。
英文摘要：
The African continent lacks enough qualified teachers which hampers the provision of adequate learning support. An AI could potentially augment the efforts of the limited number of teachers, leading to better learning outcomes. Towards that end, this work describes and evaluates the first key output for the NSMQ AI Grand Challenge, which proposes a robust, real-world benchmark for such an AI: "Build an AI to compete live in Ghana's National Science and Maths Quiz (NSMQ) competition and win - performing better than the best contestants in all rounds and stages of the competition". The NSMQ is an annual live science and mathematics competition for senior secondary school students in Ghana in which 3 teams of 2 students compete by answering questions across biology, chemistry, physics, and math in 5 rounds over 5 progressive stages until a winning team is crowned for that year. In this work, we built Brilla AI, an AI contestant that we deployed to unofficially compete remotely and live in the Riddles round of the 2023 NSMQ Grand Finale, the first of its kind in the 30-year history of the competition. Brilla AI is currently available as a web app that livestreams the Riddles round of the contest, and runs 4 machine learning systems: (1) speech to text (2) question extraction (3) question answering and (4) text to speech that work together in real-time to quickly and accurately provide an answer, and then say it with a Ghanaian accent. In its debut, our AI answered one of the 4 riddles ahead of the 3 human contesting teams, unofficially placing second (tied). Improvements and extensions of this AI could potentially be deployed to offer science tutoring to students and eventually enable millions across Africa to have one-on-one learning interactions, democratizing science education.
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