AI Tinkerers - Humans-in-the-loop Agent Hackathon Winner (Seattle)

Imagine an AI companion that understands your body better than your annual check-up ever could. At the latest AI Tinkerers "One-Shot" session, Varun Pant—AWS engineering manager and robotics innovator—discusses his AI Tinkerers Hackathon Grand Prize winning project, SmartNourish, a groundbreaking human-in-the-loop health monitoring system targeting the 1 in 3 Americans at risk of diabetes.

Key Breakthroughs:

✨ Real-time Metabolic Intelligence: Using continuous glucose monitoring and advanced AI, the system provides personalized, predictive health insights

✨ Proactive Health Companion: An AI agent that learns your unique metabolic responses, suggesting precise lifestyle and nutrition recommendations

✨ Dynamic Human-in-the-Loop Design: Intelligently escalates critical health signals, potentially involving nutritionists or clinicians

Pant's innovation demonstrates how AI can transform healthcare from reactive to predictive, leveraging technologies like LangChain, LangGraph, and Anthropic's Claude models to create a truly personalized health monitoring experience.

🔬 Developed by an engineer with a background in space robotics and machine learning, SmartNourish represents the cutting edge of AI-powered personalized medicine.

Watch more at: https://one-shot.aitinkerers.org

0:00 Welcome to AI Tinkerers One-Shot

0:28 Intro to Human-in-the-Loop Agents

1:34 Varun's Background in Robotics

2:51 Defining AI Agents and Workflows

4:00 Human-in-the-Loop: Key Concepts

6:26 SmartNourish Project Demo

8:36 CGM Data Dashboard Walkthrough

10:22 Understanding Glucose Spike Patterns

12:06 Tech Stack Overview [code walkthrough]

13:14 Agentic Workflow Design [code walkthrough]

17:16 LLM Model Selection Insights

18:14 Agent Framework Exploration

25:40 Hackathon Development Challenges

26:07 AI-Assisted Coding Techniques

29:31 Future Vision: Voice and Proactive Health

30:59 Continuing the SmartNourish Project

31:48 Productization Challenges

33:22 Building AI Guardrails

34:12 Real-World Impact of AI in Healthcare

34:45 Closing Remarks and Project Details

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