Learn Anything

Use AI to unlock learn anything with https://asterlab.io/

AI can unlock our ability to learn anything from anywhere

From academic literature, we have a good idea of techniques that help us learn. At the top of the list are:

• Spaced repetition: Most people need to review materials three to four times to commit them to memory. This is more effective if reviewed over time rather than in one single session

• Practice testing: People learn effectively from low stakes quizzes where they are given information on what they got right or wrong

• Explanations: Spending time asking ‘why’ a piece of learning is true and putting an explanation in their own words helps people place it within the body of their own knowledge

Educators spend a lot of their time gathering material, summarizing that material, and transforming it into quizzes, flashcards, reflection exercises and other tools that help learners learn.

The new wave of AI tools are well-suited to transform materials into evidence-based learning. Generative AI is good at taking content and, with some structured prompting, turning it into quizzes, flashcards, games, or any learning tool.

Yet this is still an under utilized capability.

Take YouTube. It is the world's largest skill trainer (probably from DIY videos alone). Imagine how AI can supercharge the education use case. It could easily have a ‘Learn’ button on its videos and generate tests, follow-up questions, deeper dives, personalised instruction. Apparently, features like these are on the way but are, at least, not widely available yet.

A prototype to turn any material into learning

It’s not hard to build simple prototypes and applications now with tools like Cursor, Replit, and Vercel. So, I decided to build one to bring this idea to life.

You can visit https://asterlab.io/, put in the link to any YouTube video and it will generate a summary, quiz, flashcards, and a reflection exercise.

It’s basic but, honestly, quite a lot of fun. I’ve learnt and retained a lot more with it by my side. Try it out and see what you think.

The future is here. We just have to invent it.