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AI Tinkery Workshop: How AI Retrieves Before It Responds

Join the AI Tinkery for a workshop on Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and a pizza lunch.

Event details

Thursday, March 5th 2026
11:45 AM—01:00 PM
Available toStanford Students
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This beginner-friendly, hands-on session introduces Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) — an AI approach that answers questions using only approved documents (pdf, website, passage, etc.) instead of general internet knowledge.

You’ll build your own mini RAG project using our custom platform:

  • Upload PDFs
  • Toggle embedding types (TF-IDF, Bag of Words, Binary)
  • Ask questions

We’ll unpack what’s happening behind the scenes (embeddings, retrieval, prompting — but won’t go to technical details!) and discuss trade-offs like reduced creativity and document dependence.

We have limited space — please reserve your spot only if you plan to attend in person.