PlatoAI: Exploring Music & AI Through a Socratic Dialogue with Real Survey Voices
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Notes & highlights
PlatoAI is presented as a hackathon prototype for exploring open-response survey data through a cited dialogue, not as a validated analysis system. Prajwal Prashanth introduces the project and says Plato's dialogues inspired the Socrates-and-Glaucon format at 00:00 and 00:34.
The demo homepage lists the survey's long-response questions and also lets a user enter a question at 01:09. In the first example, the generated characters discuss which song or artist first drew respondents in, with citations available alongside the conversation at 01:34. A second example asks about shifts between music formats and lets the viewer inspect the cited responses at 02:19.
At 03:00, Prashanth suggests that more development time could turn the dialogue into a podcast-style audio or video overview. That is a proposed direction, not a shipped feature. The recording does not substantiate the earlier draft's claims about response count, software stack, retrieval method or data anonymity, so those details are omitted here.
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0:00Hello everyone, my name is Proal and I would like to show you Plato AI my hackathon project. So essentially I had a shower thought today earlier this morning and what I was thinking about is like how uh people could look at data and be able to go through different like uh free response questions and be able to approach it like how would you even go through it without being overwhelmed and one thing that I was inspired of is um it's uh the works of Plato. Like I remember reading the allegory of the cave of last year or something and I really liked how Socrates would talk a lot about like the philosophical nature of different uh topics and then Glacon
0:54Plato's brother would listen along and then provide some interesting questions that Socrates would answer as well. And I was thinking maybe this could be applied to the hackathon. So what I have here, this is like the uh homepage of it. These are like all the different um long response questions in this particular survey. There weren't as many as previous ones, but it still works out. And if you click on it, it'll like essentially ask a question about it. But the user can also just input whatever they want into it. And I'll just show you what I had generated earlier. So this here is about what was the first song or artist that really pulled you
1:38in. And what really happens here is that uh Socrates and Glacon have like a conversation of what they really saw from the data like with citations as well. So you can look at it and like it's like interesting insights that they come up with as they go through the conversation. It's interesting to see like if you read through it how um like they think and how you could like approach looking through the data like going from one direction to another. Uh here's another example for example. So for this one, what do you remember the shift from your earlier music format to a new one? So Socrates is like, shall we first clarify what our fellows mean by
2:28format? And it goes through like how people uh talk about like different formats or like how um like you can also look at what each person's response was which was cited. And it says interesting conversations that you can read through and really understand the data as um like you really like this is like an interesting way to look at it. And if I had more time, I feel like this could be a really good opportunity to turn this into a kind of like a podcast style, which could go through the data and like through these conversations, it could create like a podcast or like some sort of audio or video overview.
3:18But the main thing is that Glacon and Socrates make your like life easier. Glacon comes up with some um interesting directional questions and Socrates really is like philosophical goes through the data and really identifies what is important and really kind of like uh moves the topic along step by step and that's really what I wanted to build something that uh you could have anyone approach the data uh and really be able to explore it through a philosophical lens.
3:55And this is Plato AI that I have built. Thank you for looking at the project and I hope you like this.