00:00It's Saturday at Georgia Tech and students are filing into one of the hottest clubs on campus.
00:06No dance floor, no DJ. This club runs on laptops and AI. We're going to a hackathon. Think of it
00:13as a race where students have a set amount of time to solve a problem using technology,
00:18in this case, AI. This is a Cloud Builders Club sponsored by Anthropic.
00:23But today I'm giving the assignment. This is the first time you guys are seeing this prompt.
00:28The students have just three hours to create a health app for people on the go using AI.
00:34Design a tool that removes the guesswork from staying healthy in real life. Let's start the clock.
00:41With the clock ticking. So it's essentially both a mobile app and a web app.
00:44They broke into teams doing what countless companies will someday count on them to do.
00:49So from what I was thinking you could have a dashboard.
00:52Develop products using artificial intelligence.
00:55All right, wait, look at this, look at this, look at this.
00:56So can students actually increase productivity with the help of AI instead of being replaced by it?
01:02We asked the associate dean of Georgia Tech's College of Computing.
01:05Why is it still essential for them to be a part of the process?
01:10If this is going to be a tool that a human is going to use, you'd want the testing to
01:14be done by humans.
01:15Humans are going to be in the loop quite a bit when it comes to AI in terms of refining
01:19whatever it is it produces.
01:20Back in the room, we're seeing this in real time.
01:24It's a lot of just using AI now and so we think our role is more about thinking of like
01:29creative, useful ideas.
01:31All right, so the teams have been going for about two hours now.
01:34There are minutes left on the clock, so let's check in and see how they're doing.
01:37We're struggling to make a working product because of the short time span.
01:41As the clock winds down, there are signs that AI still needs humans.
01:45Merging this is going to be hell. We have 44 minutes, so we'll see what happens.
01:50Yeah. Time's up. Laptops down.
01:53In just three hours, AI helped turn ideas into products.
01:57Hello, judges.
01:59Now it's time for the judges.
02:00This is kind of like an all-encompassing meal tracker.
02:04Just make sure you're pairing those cards with enough fruits in each meal.
02:08Six doses chicken, one half cup cooked white rice.
02:12The winner.
02:13So if I just show it right here.
02:14An app that turns healthy eating streaks into a game.
02:18Lock it in and you're one meal closer to rebuilding that streak.
02:22Right.
02:23Amazing.
02:23A real-life lab where students are using AI to one day get hired, not replaced.
02:29Kathy Park, NBC News, Atlanta.
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