Towards an AI to Win Ghana's National Science and Maths Quiz
George Boateng Jonathan Abrefah Mensah Kevin Takyi Yeboah William Edor Andrew Kojo Mensah-Onumah Naafi Dasana Ibrahim Nana Sam Yeboah
Can an AI win Ghana's National Science and Maths Quiz (NSMQ)? That is the
question we seek to answer in the NSMQ AI project, an open-source project that
is building AI to compete live in the NSMQ and win. 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. The NSMQ is an exciting live
quiz competition with interesting technical challenges across speech-to-text,
text-to-speech, question-answering, and human-computer interaction. In this
ongoing work that began in January 2023, we give an overview of the project,
describe each of the teams, progress made thus far, and the next steps toward
our planned launch and debut of the AI in October for NSMQ 2023. An AI that
conquers this grand challenge can have real-world impact on education such as
enabling millions of students across Africa to have one-on-one learning support
from this AI.