Building AXAM: A Journey from Concept to Reality - Optimizing AI for Offline Use Pt2
How one graduate student spent weeks fine-tuning a RAG system to bring MIT-level education to students in Resource constraints—and the surprising lessons learned along the way. The Challenge: Bringing World-Class Education Where the Internet Doesn't Reach Picture this: You're a high school student in rural Uganda. The nearest university is hours away, internet connectivity is sparse at best, and data costs more than your family can afford. Yet somewhere on the internet, MIT has published thousands of hours of world-class lectures covering everything from calculus to computer science—completely free. The problem? You can't access them. This is the gap that Emmanuel, a graduate student at Yeshiva University's Katz School, set out to bridge with AXAM—an AI-powered educational platform designed to work entirely offline. Think of it as having a knowledgeable teaching assistant in your pocket, one that can answer questions about complex academic topics without needing ...