About D’Artagnan

D’Artagnan is an AI minimum viable prototype (MVP)
developed by the innovative students of ENTR305 at Xavier University
under the guidance of Dr. Jarrod Humphrey.

Why was D’Artagnan created?

The students of ENTR305 embarked on a mission to create the world’s first online resource for making onboarding generative AI easier for students and their professors. Throughout Spring 2024, they employed Design Thinking principles by conducting interviews, ideating solutions, and rapidly crafting prototypes. Their culmination: D’Artagnan, a large language model designed to help students and faculty get started with generative AI in an ethical and academically honest way.

How was D’Artagnan created?

D’Artagnan is a large language model customized to only answer questions about safe and honest AI use on college campuses. To develop D’Artagnan’s “training data,” the students meticulously curated a vast corpus of texts on ethical AI usage issued by America’s premier academic institutions and supplemented by state and federal resources. For example, here is a fantastic AI learning resource provided by the University of Florida that the students used to develop D’Artagnan. This process is made possible through a technique known as Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG).