Every week, seniors Yunjae Park and Ron Minin met in the library to work on their big project. This wasn’t for a school assignment, instead it was something bigger than the both of them — an artificial intelligence chatbot named Edgy.
What started out as just a theoretical idea in their computer science class during their sophomore year has now evolved into a complex AI project that both want to take outside of the school and into the Prosper community.
“There came a point about a year and a half or a year ago where we were like, ‘Let’s make something kind of bigger than what we’ve been making,” Park said. “And we also wanted it to be something that people can actually use and benefit from, and we also wanted it to be related to our surroundings. So we started coming up with ideas. School is like our main environment, so we felt like making this would impact our community in a good way.”…