On July nineteenth , System E and Google Cloud broke a Guinness World Information™ title for essentially the most members in a generative AI hackathon. 1,130 attendees tackled actual life challenges, equivalent to growing an AI system to establish on-track incidents shortly and alert race management.
The AI hackathon supplied members the chance to leverage Google Cloud’s AI instruments — Vertex AI and Gemini 1.5 Flash — to deal with these challenges. Groups collaborated to discover System E and Google Cloud’s improvements, whereas gaining insights from their consultants throughout talks and interactive breakout classes.
We supplied members with entry to uncooked information from varied elements of System E (together with video and automotive telemetry information) — permitting them to make use of instruments to study patterns and do their very own exploratory work to validate it.
With 60% of members not having direct abilities in AI, the hackathon was about bridging this hole and demonstrating the sensible, real-world capabilities of generative AI, encouraging members to assume creatively about future prospects in motorsports and past.
8 hours later…
The profitable Ancoris staff constructed and demoed a tremendous Vertex Agent which tranformed a two-hour race description right into a two minute abstract podcast. Not solely did it summarise the race (in any language required) however it set the scene for the following race, by enriching the LLM with driver and future occasions information.
As well as, the Ancoris staff accomplished two different challenges which earned them a particular point out from Jeff Dodds, CEO, System E, who judged the panel together with others together with Eric Ernst, VP Expertise at System E, and Enrique Rodriguez, CTO at Liberty World.
The 1,130 members additionally bought up near the ultimate pre-race preparations of the 11 world-class racing groups, together with the likes of Jaguar TCS Racing, NEOM McLaren and TAG Heuer Porsche System E, throughout pitlane excursions and watching the sequence’ ultimate apply session earlier than the race.
In keeping with Eric Ernst, VP of Expertise at System E, the occasion was all about giving a various vary of members a chance to interact with AI expertise and stay race information in a high-stakes atmosphere, aiming to ascertain System E because the world’s most progressive and fastest-accelerating sport.
