Talk Proposal: Intro to Open Source AI

[kushalgoenka]

• Draft Title: Intro to Open Source AI
• Length: 20 min full presentation
• Links: The talk is an interactive web app (instead of PDF/slides)
• Which dates, particularly Tue/Wed/Thu during the 2nd/3rd week of a month, are you likely available? Available April 23.

Short Summary

Short crash course to demystify Large Language Models (LLMs) & Embeddings, using everything open source.

Topics Covered: Natural Language Processing, Next Word Prediction, In-Context Learning, Fine-Tuning Models, Conversational AI, Structured Data from Unstructured, Tool Use, Embeddings, Retrieval Augmented Generation & more.

Speaker Bio

• Name: Kushal Goenka
• Mini-bio: Freelance Software Developer
• Would you like help with your presentation? Nah, I got it, thanks!
• Social media link(s): http://kushalgoenka.com/
• Do you agree to the VanJS Code of Conduct? Sure.

[bibschan]

hey @kushalgoenka thanks for opening up a PR with us! I see you suggested April 23rd for your talk, however we are scheduled full of speakers for this month -- would you be available on May 21st by any chance? Also, do you think you can keep the presentation to 15min or do you require 20? Thank you!

[kushalgoenka]

Hey @bibschan, thanks for the update. Sure, let’s do May 21st, and sure, I can keep it to 15 minutes.

[bibschan]

@kushalgoenka perfect! I'll earmark you for May 21st

[bibschan]

hey @kushalgoenka, you can get your free ticket using code SPEAKER here https://lu.ma/vanjs-may-2024

[bibschan]

@kushalgoenka would you be able to send me a picture of yourself that I can use for our introduction slides? thank you!

[bibschan]

thank you for talking yesterday @kushalgoenka!