Greetings!

We have continued to push ahead with our project this week. Week 10 was all about corpus augmentation and the new tools that came out from OpenAI that would expedite our project progress. 

OpenAI Updates

On November 6, OpenAI announced their Assistant API, which would allow for a streamlined way to integrate calls to GPT 3.5/4 and the retrieval for our model. Although we already implemented retrieval with Pinecone, with this, we could have an alternate approach that is more streamlined and is entirely based with OpenAI. 

Corpus Processing

The team also made updates in having implemented corpus processing behind-the-scenes. This essentially involved making the information that our chatbot has more digestible so that it could answer questions better more often. In essence, this will mean more accurate responses which should be seen in our testing this upcoming week. 

And More

During our lecture this week, we also prepared for our prototype inspection day. This involved discussion of what we would be presenting with regards to the purpose and evaluation of our prototype, what feedback we will receive, and tasks left for preparing for our presentation.

We also affirmed our travel date set for November 15-16 to Clearwater! There, we will more formally present our prototype, and give a presentation to Vispero employees.