Your new study partner may be an AI-powered app
Summary
A team of entrepreneurs is currently leveraging generative artificial intelligence (AI) to build an app called Penseum, which they hope will make university courses easier for students. The Penseum company is a part of MaRS, an incubating service for tech startups based in Toronto and a partner organization with U of T. Generative AI has taken over headlines since ChatGPT was launched last November and has become some students’ best friend. Penseum users can upload course material to their software to receive personalized study guides, flashcards, and practice questions. Many students struggle when transitioning from high school to university, especially as they begin to acquaint themselves with the large lecture sizes, Khalsa explained. Khalsa and Hosseini incorporated the company three weeks after that, on August 14, and then started distributing its minimum viable product — the early version of the tool — to get feedback from some test users.