Tech Lab
Tech Talk: Decoding AI - A Deep Dive into Large Language Models (Free)
Learn about Large Language Models (LLMs) used in applications like ChatGPT and how they work.
Meeting Times
- Sun, 8/13/2023 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Sun, 8/13/2023
Closed
About
In this free tech talk, the instructor will give an introduction to Large Language Models (LLM) used in applications like ChatGPT. The following topics will be covered:
- What is an LLM?
- Very brief overview of Transformer architecture/GPT
- How LLMs are trained/fine tuned
- Hardware requirements
- Closed source tools
- LLM Agents
- Quantization
Come join the discussion!
Class Policies
- Free, but please register.
- Ages 14 and up are welcome.
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Instructors or Guides
Kevin Rohling
Kevin Rohling is head of AI at Presence Product Group, a software consultancy in San Francisco; founder of Conifer Chat, an enterprise AI platform; and was vice president of engineering/product at test.ai. Kevin has founded multiple companies and successfully scaled teams, revenue, and products, including founding and selling a company in the mobile continuous integration/testing space and implementation of the Grid Resilience and Intelligence Platform for the US Department of Energy.
