Why I Started AMMA Learns AI

Welcome to the first post of AMMA Learns AI. Before getting into how the app works or what powers it, I want to start with where it all began.

I had just finished my master’s and was deep in job prep mode. Every day, I was reviewing machine learning topics like supervised learning, clustering, decision trees, and deep learning. The concepts were piling up, and after a while, they started to blur together. No matter how hard I tried, I kept mixing them up or forgetting what each one really meant.

That’s when I started wondering. What if I could turn these concepts into stories? Nothing complicated. Just something simple that would help them stick.

Right around then, I got a call from my mom. She said she had been hearing about AI everywhere. On the news. On WhatsApp. In everyday conversations. Then she said something that stuck with me: “I don’t really know what AI means, but everyone keeps talking about it.”

And she wasn’t alone. Almost every elder in my family or community had the same reaction. They knew AI was important, but they didn’t know what it actually was. They wanted to understand it, but most explanations were too technical or felt out of reach.

That’s when the idea clicked. I wished there was something that explained AI to someone like my mom. Not with technical terms or diagrams, but with familiar stories and simple conversations.

At first, I thought I would write one story a day to go with each concept I was revising. But with interviews and projects, I knew that pace wouldn’t be realistic.

So I thought of something new. What if I built an app that let AI help tell the stories too? A tool that helped me learn and revise while also creating stories someone like my mom could understand.

That was the beginning of AMMA Learns AI. It is not just a side project. It is my way of turning what I have learned into something real and useful. A tool that helps others learn too, especially those who are curious about AI but never felt like it was made for them.

In the next post, I will share how I started building the app. The tools I chose, the model I picked, and all the trial and error it took to bring Amma and Meenu to life.

Thanks for reading. Let’s build this one feature at a time, one story at a time.