Welcome to a New Way of Learning History!
This website is a pioneering project designed to make history more engaging and accessible. Instead of dry reading or listening to lectures, you can now explore historical events and figures through interactive conversations. Specifically, you’ll engage with their virtual counterparts!
Pilot Project: Nikola Tesla
For this initial project, I chose Nikola Tesla, a Serbian scientist whose inventions earned him global fame. On this site, you can interact with Tesla’s chatbot, designed to provide accurate and informative answers about his life, work, and groundbreaking inventions.
The responses you receive are based on transparent and publicly available information. This allows you to understand how the chatbot operates and why it provides certain answers. The content will be continuously updated – plans include adding Tesla’s letters, interviews, and speeches so that, over time, the AI can communicate more authentically in Tesla’s unique style.
A Note on Artificial Intelligence
While technology is constantly advancing, artificial intelligence is not yet perfect. Errors may occur as the system continues to learn and improve. If you notice that the chatbot is providing inaccurate or nonsensical responses, please let me know and provide sources of accurate information so that the errors can be corrected as quickly as possible.
What’s Next?
This project is just the beginning of something bigger. The goal is to develop chatbots for many historical figures, enabling children and adults alike to learn about their lives and achievements in an interactive way. This tool can also be valuable for history teachers as a classroom aid and for anyone who wants to enjoy learning through an innovative and entertaining approach.
Support the Project!
If you have suggestions, ideas, or would like to support this project, please feel free to get in touch.
Special thanks to Mr. Milovan Matić for invaluable insights into Tesla’s life and to historian, Second Lieutenant Uroš Jovanović, for essential information about the lives of the Serbian people in the Lika and Serbian Krajina regions.