If you cannot beat it, join them! In the year 2024, students from all over the world learned about the quasi-magical abilities of the infamous ChatGPT. As a new lecturer at SAgE (the School of Agriculture and Environment - UWA), it became quite clear to me that this was a tool with enormous potential. Using the video recordings from the COVID years, I transcribed all lectures and fed a RAG tool into an agent-AI that will be deployed as a 24/7 tutor to answer students' questions. "The lecturer strikes back"
In this session, the data pipeline, agent architecture and evaluation metrics (AI score to previous year's exams) will be presented.