How two people built an AI tool for 15,000 students

Yet again, Dan and Ray are the podcast hosts, but Ray's AI digital twin introduces the episode!

This week's guests are:
Lee Barrett – Prompt Engineer and AI Advocate at CEnet.

Prem Radhakrishnan – AI Technical Manager at CEnet.

This episode is a two-level deep dive into the development and deployment of CEchat, an AI-powered chatbot designed to reduce teacher workload and enhance student learning across Catholic schools in Australia.

Part 1 of the episode covers the vision, pedagogy, and implementation strategy with both Lee and Prem.

Part 2 is a more technical discussion between Dan and Prem, covering codebase customisation, infrastructure, scale, security, and integration.

CEchat is an extended school-level implementation of Cogniti, the multi-award-winning open source chatbot from The University of Sydney. We interviewed Danny Liu about the project in this episode: https://aipodcast.education/the-university-of-sydneys-cogniti-ai-bot 

They also discussed the Rome Call for AI Ethics, which you'll find here: https://www.romecall.org/