Chain of historical events which led to a current affair

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  Chain of historical events led to current affair. How things would have been different if triggering event didn't happen.

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  Countries historically impacted the current affair. How things would have been different if entered country was not involved.

Inspiration

I was looking for some tasks, which generative ai is good at. By experimenting I found it can generate a chain of relations with simple prompting. I wanted to employ this strength to create a useful application.

What it does

We are facing so many complex current world affairs and struggles. This app finds a chain of historical factors which led to a current affair. It also shows how things would have been different now, if one triggering historical action could have been reversed.

First user input widget: User enters a current affair.

First widget: Links this current affair to a chain of historical events and decisions. Helps to grasp complexity of historical factors leading to how things are now.

Second widget: Shows how the situation would have been different, if one triggering historical action could have been reversed.

Third widget: Lists other countries which had historically impacted the current affair. User may use this info for the second user input widget.

Second user input widget User enters a country.

Fourth widget: Links the current affair to how a historical action of that country had triggered chain of factors impacted the current situation.

Fifth widget: Shows how the situation would have been different, if that country’s action could have been reversed.

Sixth widget: chatbot for user to ask further questions.

How we built it

I used the following Partyrock widgets:

2 user input widgets.

5 text generation widgets (Claude): Four with prompts describing how to chain the user input to historical events and decisions, and how to reverse the chain of events. One for listing few countries with strong impact.

1 chatbot widget (Claude Instant) for user to ask further questions.

Challenges we ran into

The main challenge was to experiment and figure out at which tasks the generative ai and Partyrock are good at. Once I realized chaining events seems to be a strength of the current state of generative ai, there were no 'technical’ challenges. The remaining main challenge was to find a useful application of linking events. And once I found that the rest worked out itself.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Finding one task which generative ai good at.

Using it for an application that I find useful.

I myself use this app often to get a big picture about current world affairs. I also love the hypothetical reversal of history to get insight into how things could have played differently.

What we learned

How to use AWS Partyrock.

What's next

I would like to add some checks for how factual and accurate the results generated by Claude and Party-rock are.

Built With

• claude
• claudeinstant