UTA Freshman Builds AI Tool That Questions, Not Answers |
Pradeep Muraliram's SocriaAI pushes users toward their own thinking instead of instant answers |
Pradeep Muraliram, a business management freshman at the University of Texas at Arlington, built an AI app that questions users instead of simply answering them. The app, SocriaAI, challenges users' reasoning and explains an answer when appropriate, according to The Shorthorn.
How SocriaAI worksMuraliram built the tool with Claude Code and GitHub. The design draws on Socratic questioning, metacognition, and first-principles thinking, and the name nods to Socrates. The newest feature is a mind graph that maps the topics a user has discussed with the AI, so users can see how their ideas connect over time.
The Shorthorn describes an experimental case in which ChatGPT answered the question "What internships should I apply for?" with direct links, while SocriaAI asked about the user's interests and skills. The article does not document how that test was run, so it works better as an illustration than as a benchmark.
A "human-first" pitchMuraliram compared Meta's personal AI agent, Muse, to Jarvis from Iron Man. According to The Shorthorn, Meta describes Muse as a tool that connects apps such as email, calendar, and Instagram to perform tasks for users. Muraliram said Muse takes tasks off users' hands, while Socria is working out how involved a person should stay.
"Socria is a company that actually wants to help humans rather than just outsourcing them to AI," Muraliram said. |
 Photo by Andrea Piacquadio on Pexels. Illustrative image of a person thinking at a laptop; not SocriaAI or a UTA student. |
Pradeep Muraliram, a business management freshman at the University of Texas at Arlington, built an AI app that questions users instead of simply answering them. The app, SocriaAI, challenges users' reasoning and explains an answer when appropriate, according to The Shorthorn.
How SocriaAI worksMuraliram built the tool with Claude Code and GitHub. The design draws on Socratic questioning, metacognition, and first-principles thinking, and the name nods to Socrates. The newest feature is a mind graph that maps the topics a user has discussed with the AI, so users can see how their ideas connect over time.
The Shorthorn describes an experimental case in which ChatGPT answered the question "What internships should I apply for?" with direct links, while SocriaAI asked about the user's interests and skills. The article does not document how that test was run, so it works better as an illustration than as a benchmark.
A "human-first" pitchMuraliram compared Meta's personal AI agent, Muse, to Jarvis from Iron Man. According to The Shorthorn, Meta describes Muse as a tool that connects apps such as email, calendar and Instagram to perform tasks for users. Muraliram said Muse takes tasks off users' hands, while Socria is working out how involved a person should stay.
"Socria is a company that actually wants to help humans rather than just outsourcing them to AI," Muraliram said. |
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