In a rapidly evolving world where artificial intelligence is reshaping not only entire industries but the world itself, students need to be prepared to harness this technology to solve pressing issues. With this goal in mind, Cohere and Waterloo.AI sponsored a student-led hackathon that focused on Retrieval Augmented Generation — also known as RAG — at the University of Waterloo’s IDEAs clinic.
Collaborating with student-led groups WAT.ai and the UW Data Science Club, together with Professor Jimmy Lin, Faraz Khoubsirat, a third-year software engineering student, and Bing Hu, a computer science PhD student, organized a day-long hackathon on November 26 with more than 50 engaged participants. For the challenge, participants were asked to tackle real-world problems they could solve using Cohere’s powerful AI engines and RAG APIs.
Read the full story from Computer Science to learn more.