IR-230: AI Overviews and Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Course Description

Using LLMs to synthesize search results and answer user questions. AI Overviews (formerly Google SGE): architecture and user experience. RAG for search: retrieve-then-generate, citations, grounding. Scolta's AI overview feature: implementation deep-dive, prompt design, caching strategy. Hallucination in search contexts: detection and mitigation. Attribution and citation generation. Evaluating AI-generated summaries: faithfulness, relevance, coherence. Streaming responses for low-perceived latency. Students implement an AI overview system for a content corpus.