Agenda:

  • Go over the group contract
  • Discuss what our strengths our
  • Decide how to tackle the press release, decide on allocation of tasks
  • Decide what we want from the literature review
  • Decide the model used for AI (1 or 2)

Since last meeting:

  • Sophie: literature review relating to the case study
  • Victoria: created a customer, empathy map, generated some ideas
  • Tri: created a customer, broad RRI literature review
  • Paul: notes on group contract, brief literature review over RRI/case study
  • Alex: identified a customer, some literature review w.r.t case study
  • Ubayd: yet to join us - has been emailed by Alex

Discussion:

  • Writing up group contract as group, written up by Tri. - needs to be shared
  • Strengths of different people:
    • Tri: equally good at frontend/backend; good at time management / organisation
    • Sophie: good with report / research writing; down to code anything
    • Victoria: generally quite organised; good w/ writing; quick learning
    • Paul: good at organisation; can adapt to any code section; design
    • Alex: communication with client; can adapt to any code section
  • Going over identified customers:
    • Tri: Amanda, mother, her and husband pride on being great parents in supporting children in pursuits; children achieving top grades; eldest wants to pursue neuroscience; difficult to reach goals due to lack of opportunity/resources; opportunity to use innovations in AI to overcome issues faced by rural schools; key benefit for customers: near limitless educational resources; parents frustrated that daughter can’t reach career; LLMs trained on neuroscience
    • Victoria: Amy, 16, lives in small town in Kent, local public school, both parents are busy and full-time working, can’t support education as much; wants to work in STEM; school’s IT not very good; teachers don’t know much about programming; but she wants to learn to program; frustrated because she doesn’t have much financially; personalised AI tutor
    • Alex: head teacher with two children; children going to school he is head teacher of; average grade is not the best; wants to increase it to support his own children and area; lack of resources incl. teachers & topics; quote (paraphrased) “have to constantly give students bad news that [they - local students] cannot compete with other students going into STEM due to lack of resources in their own education”; app to access teachers from other areas; subsidised by the government
    • Sophie: student worried there is not much extracurricular; app to find specific locations of activities, e.g. basketball, football, etc; as schools can’t afford it so multiple schools can combine together
  • Feasibility of LLMs to be deployed to rural areas given internet.
  • Working on press release, written up by Tri. - needs to be shared
  • Deciding on our issue to tackle: Lack of funding hence specialised teachers in rural schools for an effective and quality education.
  • Clarified on literature review - must be focused on RRI
  • No consensus on GenAI use

Get done for the weekend:

  • Everyone does an RRI literature review: find a relevant paper, summarise what it talks about, and then try to infer something relevant to the group project process

Scheduled:

  • Asynchronous communication for literature review (this weekend, 18th to 20th)
  • Next in-person meeting same time (2024-10-21) We will be writing the press release!