Inspiration
Do you read Canadian policy bills passed by the government? No. But do you listen to music? Yes! That's how we can make government policy accessible to all.
Today most people don't read bills and policies, instead relying on news to get this information. But what if this information was made more digestible and fun! After seeing all the misinformation that's been spreading about various government policies over the past few years, we thought we could help make strides towards solving the problem.
What it does
Our project takes a policy document and turns in into a Spotify playlist! Specifically, we take bills from the Canadian House of Commons and using generative AI techniques and the Spotify API, we convert these into related songs that can help one understand the gist of the bill.
How we built it
We use generative AI to suggest songs based on paragraphs in the bill documents. We used Cohere to accomplish this task using the command-xlarge model. Next, we organized the songs into a playlist using Spotify API. This was all tied together using a Velo by Wix frontend that made the whole process accessible.
Challenges we ran into
Choosing a prompt for Cohere generate was tricky since we had to make sure that the songs that were generated were relevant and real songs that we could look up on Spotify. We tried a few different prompts and eventually found that the one that was used was the best possible one.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
We learned to use Velo by Wix for the first time and integrated a beautiful frontend into our project. Further, we made use of Large Language Models for the first time, allowing us to tread through water we had never before.
What's next for Licy: Wake Up
In the future, we want to expand the number of bill we support by automating the task of getting the bills from a webpage.
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