{"id":5094,"date":"2023-09-14T01:11:38","date_gmt":"2023-09-14T01:11:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hawaii.edu\/epscor\/?p=5094"},"modified":"2023-09-14T01:11:42","modified_gmt":"2023-09-14T01:11:42","slug":"hs-interns-use-ai-develop-expense-tracking-app-in-48-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hawaii.edu\/epscor\/hs-interns-use-ai-develop-expense-tracking-app-in-48-hours\/","title":{"rendered":"HS\u00a0interns use\u00a0AI, develop expense-tracking app in 48 hours"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Utilizing artificial intelligence (AI) to its fullest potential, seven high school students developed a mobile app that tracks expenses\u2014all within a two-week timeframe. Through an internship with U.S. Department of Education Native Hawaiian Education Act grant grantee, Project H\u014dk\u016blani<\/a>, at the Center on Disability Studies<\/a> (CDS) in the University of Hawai\u02bbi at M\u0101noa College of Education<\/a> (COE), this second cohort of students gained a unique computer science experience that enabled them to advance their STEM skills.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During summer 2023, the student interns built a mobile application named RESHEIPT at the UH Laboratory of Applications in Informatics and Analytics. The students were each paid a $1,000 stipend for 48 hours of work at the computer lab.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Designed to gather expenses one receipt at a time, they created the app using ChatGPT under the guidance of Assistant Professor Mahdi Belcaid (Information and Computer Sciences, Hawai\u02bbi Institute of Marine Biology, Hawai\u02bbi Data Science Institute) and Akib Sadmanee, a research graduate assistant with Pacific Ocean Science and Technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Students used ChatGPT to complete tasks that would have traditionally required much more time from machine learning experts or programmers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe group wanted to include artificial intelligence in their computer studies, and the app delivers just that,\u201d said CDS Assistant Specialist Lisa Galloway. \u201cThe app allows users to scan their receipts, providing them with an itemized overview of their transactions. AI comes in when users are processing and itemizing their receipts with ChatGPT.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Watch a short video about how the RESHEIPT app works<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

They also learned how to use no-code platforms, including Amazon Web Services, to construct the features of the app, such as authentication and storage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis product highlights the impact of AI and specifically large language models on technology,\u201d said Belcaid. \u201cIf high school students can develop such a complex application in just 40 hours\u2014much of which was devoted to education rather than coding\u2014imagine the technological possibilities that await us as ChatGPT and similar technologies continue to mature over the next two to three years.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read more at the COE website.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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HS interns use AI, develop expense-tracking app in 48 hours<\/a><\/blockquote>