I Used AI to Gamify my Study Sessions | Science of Gamification

hello guys in this video I want to show you how you can make your study sessions a lot more effective and enjoyable by using AI but before we go there I want to show you a clip of the Ted Talk that inspired me to make this video and I really believe that if you reframe like the challenges it can make all the difference I have a simple thought experiment to sort of showcase this let's say I gave you a test and it had instructions on it that you would carry out and to do that it

had sort of buttons like this and the instructions would say something like push button three for five seconds and then push button six for one seconds then push buttons three and five for success and so on and unless you carried out the instructions on page one exactly you couldn't see the other 32 pages of the test how much would I have to pay you to take that test for an hour now suppose I changed the word test here to game and I rotated this and for the input device I Shrunk the buttons and moved them

here and I gave it a cool paint job and maybe different button styles and then instead of using words I represented the tasks you needed to accomplish visually like this note the output is the exact same you have to push these buttons in a very specific manner to move on to the next page or level as it were now picture it's 1986. how much would you pay me to take this test just for an hour amazing right so what Mark Robert just showed us is something we call gamification the art of adding game-like mechanics to

non-game environments and as you can imagine when done right these process is incredibly useful that's why thousands of people have been trying for decades to figure out the best way to use gamification to make starting a lot more fun some teachers for instance have tried really hard to find the best strategies to gamify their classes a great example of this is Illustrated in this Ted Talk by Dr Christopher C here Dr C shows us how a class about something like anti-hypertensives can be literally transformed into an escape room with all sorts of interesting challenges puzzles

and collaboration other people have tried a different approach and have started to create actual study video games a great example of this is Bob brickney a video game that integrates us Emily preparation Resources with a real-time strategy game inboard readme players are able to navigate more levels fight with enemies pick up Treasures improve skill trees and even play with friends and all of that while prepping for their boards with usmly cell questions and flashcards so all of these applications and creative use cases are amazing especially if I am lucky enough to be in the class

of Dr C or if I happen to be pursuing the specific goal of prepping for the steps but what if I have a different goal what if I want to gamify something more ordinary like my typical study sessions and transform things like these chapter from this textbook or these review article from a journal into something a little bit more interactive and fun is there any way I can do this well there is and in this video I'm gonna show you how it works and why you should consider using it okay so the basic idea behind

all of this system is to turn any study material any sort of text video Chapter anything you want into a simple and Interactive gamified Learning Experience how are we going to do this simple first we take the text that we need to review and we instruct a free AI chat bot called chai GPT to turn it into review questions then we take those review questions and paste them into a gamified version of Anki and then we use that gamified version of Anki to review the study material I mean there are some important details to keep

in mind to make sure that this process is done correctly but I explain all of that in the reading instructions that I'm Gonna Leave down below so why is this a good idea well number one because it's fun I mean it's not like playing FIFA or anything like that but to be honest no gamification method really makes studying feel completely like a professional and dedicated video game having said that I did feel the overall experience to be a lot more enjoyable and a lot of the usual friction that I find myself when I try to

study was basically a gun when I've tried to use this method so that is certainly a benefit but beyond that I think that this is a good idea as well because it turns a very passive study method into an active study method so that means that this not only can be more fun but it also can be more effective in fact after completing a trial of this study method I realized that I had basically copied one of the learning techniques that Professor Cornell used in a class experiment in that experiment two groups of students were

instructed to learn a set of information but the first group did it directly right off the bat they started reading the study material without doing any other sort of previous intervention whereas the second group is started by first attempting to solve a series of challenging questions about the material yes about the material they haven't yet read logically the second group got most questions wrong in fact the researchers explicitly stated that they tried crafting the questions so that they would get these questions wrong after attempting to solve these versions they moved on to read the study

material and as you can see here the study clearly shows that adding that series of very challenging questions that forced us to get stuff wrong before we even attempt to read the material has a beneficial effect and so that is something to keep in mind here because I'm sure a lot of people trying this I would be like how the hell am I supposed to answer questions about something I haven't even read what a stupid method and so yeah just keep that in mind because that's not a bug it's a feature and there's actually quite

a good amount of research behind this in case you're curious you just have to search the generation effect and you'll see what I mean by the way in case you're interested I have a whole course where I go over these and many other science based study techniques you can watch it for free by following the instructions down in the description okay so there are a couple of potential problems and limitations that you need to know if you plan on using this system number one I don't know how the system will behave with every type of

study material so far I have tested this with an article from the New England Journal of Medicine an article from nature an officiology chapter and I was pretty satisfied with the results but I can't promise that you will be satisfied with every type of study material that you put into this system and number two which I think is even more important is that the quality of your study material will heavily depend on how good you are at instructing this bot to ensure a basic standard of quality I try to live a very comprehensive set of

instructions in the guideline but the fact of the matter is that this body is very unpredictable right sometimes he will give you perfect responses and sometimes it will give you mediocre and poorly worded questions when this happens your level of skill using chat Bots will be what determines whether you end up with a great study tool or a mediocre one so if you're interested in using this I suggest you take a couple of hours to really learn how to use chai DPT properly and take these as a general advice for future right because artificial intelligence

is here and people are already using it to get ahead and so if you don't want to stay behind the best thing you can do is to have a basic understanding of how these tools work and how to make the most out of them now if you want my recommendation of where you can start learning about all of these I would suggest you check out a lesson called can computers learn in the course in introduction to neural networks they're the sponsor of this video which is brilliant will take you through a series of challenges analogies

and games that explain how neural networks work why they make the mistakes they make and why it is by the name they don't have the ability to think this lesson is very short fairly easy to understand and extremely extremely engaging I mean the game they used to explain this is literally Tic-tac-toe and yes in case you're wondering they use these very same Hands-On Interactive Learning approach in all of their lessons and all of their courses so if you want to learn more about neural networks or anything related to Stem really make sure to check out

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