5/ Synthesis NLP data pipeline + classifier and LLM summarization tool to collate news from biased sources and distill truthful information Basically, Ground News, but AI 🏅 Editor’s (me) choice- for most sophisticated architecture Ron Nachum

Stanford just hosted a hackathon. Over 1000 students from around the world came to build for 36 hours straight. The reward? $100k+ in prizes. Here are the winners and crowd standouts we saw at TreeHacks ‘24 @hackwithtrees (🧵):

1/ Baymax Robot arm controlled by natural language and speech to provide medicine to the elderly/physically disabled. Every single robot control, including inverse kinematics, coded from scratch. 🏆Grand prize winner- $10,000 🏆Elderly citizens award- Free trip to Japan

2/ Recollect Automatic OCR scanning + page turning machine to digitize books and print media 🏅Hardware award @LawtonSkaling @kaien_yang @jclin22009

3/ Good Samaritan Combining Apple Vision Pro with machine learning to help first responders administer first aid 🏆Healthcare impact grand prize @yashdulla @rayhotate @ShloakR @blu3mo

4/ Smart bike lock RFID bike lock jerry-rigged together with 9 volt batteries, electrical tape, a 3d printed chassis, and an arruino @SamDuong1

6/ Luna AI storyteller that live-generates photos while you’re telling a story Great for kids + fun novelty party game @Kellyyyeh @sfkunals

7/ Lingua Franca VR language learning game where you can learn new language by speaking with NPCs 🏅Prize winner

8/ Compost Chaos Overcooked-inspired Unity game to promote recycling @LuizAhumada

9/ Auto switch Cheap door switch with built in Bluetooth and motion sensors. Retrofits to lights by physically toggling the switch

10/ Breathe easy “Breathing” pillow that expands and contracts to match your own breathing pattern. Research suggests this leads to more restful sleep Inside: mechanical accordion. No need for wires or pumps

And that’s all I could film! There were wayyy too many projects (at least 400) This was the first student hackathon I’ve ever been to. I’m seriously impressed Huge shoutout to @MLHacks @hackwithtrees @Stanford Want to see more hacks, AI agents, and demos? Follow @AlexReibman

@Ground_app @RonNachum Thanks, Alex! This was a cause that's close to each of us, and Ground News was a huge inspiration for us. We're excited to pursue this further!

@RonNachum Glad we could be an inspiration! We've recently launched GAIA, a feature very similair to what you've described. It prompt's readers with questions to ask about the story so readers can dive deeper and learn more. Try it out here:

@Ground_app @RonNachum Thanks a lot for the thread, great work by the students! But the example for the LLM news synthesizer is unfortunately well chosen to show the risks of such a system, as Trump was NOT fined for 350 AND 450 million. Afaik it should state 350 for fraud and 80 for Carrolls case.

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