Meet Jimmy, your 24/7 AI-powered academic advisor on Discord. He offers quick, clear guidance on coursework and academic planning, empowering students to make informed decisions toward their future.
Our experience with advisors frequently canceling on students inspired us.
What it does
AdvisorAI is a 24/7 AI academic advisor for students.
It provides guidance when advisors are unavailable or when students want to explore their academic paths independently.
How we built it
We integrated Ollama's LLM into a Discord bot.
We provided it with a database on the Undergraduate Bulletin for the College of Engineering.
Challenges we ran into
We aimed to use the entire Undergraduate Bulletin, but hardware limitations prevented us from vectorizing the full database as a result, our current AI references only the College of Engineering.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
Successfully configured the LLM to sequence document data from the Undergraduate Bulletin.
Implemented a functional Discord bot that interacts with an LLM locally.
What we learned
For most of our team, this was our first hackathon, which demystified the process of creating an MVP.
We discovered that we are more capable than we thought, overcoming challenges we encountered for the first time.
Gained valuable experience working as a team.
What's next for AdvisorAI
We plan to expand AdvisorAI to cover the entire Undergraduate Bulletin and include resources for graduate students as we acquire more powerful hardware.
Future plans include integrating AdvisorAI into Canvas to access students' grades and classes for personalized advice.
We aim to extract job data relevant to students' academic paths to further enhance its capabilities.
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