Hika AI: Rethinking Knowledge Search
Hika AI is an AI-powered "knowledge search tool" designed to help you quickly extend your knowledge in related fields or dive deep into key points of a question through Hika's "different perspectives," providing more comprehensive results when searching for information.
Why We Created Hika
My partner and I are heavy users of AI products and have long been interested in knowledge and information-based products. When using AI search products, we found that despite the abundance of options, most are very similar and often feel inadequate. The reasons for this are:
- The underlying models aren't smart enough to truly understand our intentions.
- The answers provided contain many links and images, but these don't necessarily help us better understand the question.
- When we're interested in a particular part of the answer, we can't delve deeper.
We realized that these issues stem from the product industry's fundamental understanding of the relationship between AI and human interaction, which has become a consensus for this entire category of products. Therefore, we wanted to try a different approach.
How Hika Differs from Other AI Search Tools
Existing AI search products are mostly similar to Perplexity, offering text answers + links + related questions + images. They look like public accounts, with exploration focused more on form rather than the substance of the question itself. Hika's approach differs in the following ways:
Enhanced Text Answers: We retain the text portion as the main body of the answer while adding targeted professional knowledge sources to meet the basic effectiveness of Q&A.
Paragraph-Based Exploration: We divide answers into paragraphs because you're likely to be interested in several points within a single answer, which are usually distributed across different paragraphs. Hika can further explore these paragraphs interactively, providing associated follow-up questions or more in-depth answers.
Graphical Explanations: We provide graphical explanations. Compared to text statements, charts themselves offer a different angle of interpretation. Hika's charts can extend related knowledge points while giving you an immediate "global perspective."
As you can see, we aim to provide you with multiple dimensions of thinking "clues" for a single question, rather than a one-step "lazy answer."
Our Philosophy
We don't believe AI can completely replace human intelligence in the short term. When thinking about problems, people tend to organize information in a web-like structure, extracting and processing useful information before reaching conclusions. Everyone has their own unique processing method and standards, which cannot be quantified. This is why current AI searches can't provide satisfactory answers to everyone.
Therefore, we don't aim for one-step answers. Instead, we focus Hika on deep-diving into information, greatly improving the efficiency of web-like information acquisition. In other words, using Hika, your thinking can become smarter and more efficient than before.
Note: Hika is currently in the early stages of product development and has many issues, including performance, user experience, and functional processes. We will continue to iterate on it extensively, and we are eager to hear your voice, whether in agreement or criticism.
We're glad you can participate in Hika's growth and hope you enjoy using it!
Top comments (2)
Wow! I showed this to my younger brother, and he couldn’t stop exploring it. I tried asking Hika something super basic, and it gave me such detailed insights with examples, it’s like having a personal tutor! My English is decent now, but if I’d had this during school, my grades would’ve been through the roof in all subjects. I’m preparing for my IELTS in a month or two, and Hika is definitely going to be my go to tool for better learning!
This is actually 100,000 times better than ChatGPT. However, it gives SUPER long responses! I asked what 1+1 is and it gave me a 6 paragraph essay!