Open Healthcare Datasets, OpenShift for ML Applications, Videos to Teach Software Engineers About AI, and an ODSC West 50% Discount
15 Open Healthcare Datasets — 2024 Update
Here are 15 top open-source healthcare datasets that are making a significant impact in healthcare research and can be helpful for those working in AI and data science.
5 Reasons Why You Should Be Using Red Hat’s OpenShift in ML Applications
Let’s explore Red Hat’s OpenShift, its key benefits, and how it can revolutionize your AI and ML projects.
8 Videos for Software Engineers to Learn to Use AI
Are you a software engineer interested in expanding your knowledge and skills into the realm of AI? These 8 tutorial videos can help you get started.
Model Cards: The AI Transparency Label You Need
Through model cards, users can get a comprehensive overview of an AI model’s components, like how a nutrition label details food ingredients and nutritional value.
Ethical Considerations in Gamifying Data Management in Organizations
How can organizations gamify data management without negatively affecting subjects or workers?
Industry, Opinion, Career Advice
What’s the State of AI and Copyright in 2024?
How can creators protect their work in an AI-driven world? The issues of AI and copyright are not just theoretical, as they are shaping the future of writing and content creation.
Scaling AI Initiatives in Retail
Ahead of his ODSC West 2024 session, Fatih Nayebi of the ALDO Group discusses how to improve AI initiatives in retail.
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Data Science & AI News
ODSC’s AI Weekly Recap: Week of August 30th
This week’s AI Weekly Recap is all about Meta’s AI business strategy, OpenAI’s new version of Codex, and legislation updates.
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Astrophysicists Use AI to Sharpen Universe’s Cosmological Parameters
Astrophysicists from the Flatiron Institute and their collaborators have employed AI to refine the values of the universe’s fundamental settings — known as cosmological parameters — with unprecedented precision.
Google Relaunches Gemini AI Image Creation Tool
Google has announced the relaunch of its Gemini AI tool, reinstating the controversial image generation function for some users.
Meta’s Llama AI Models Gain Traction Among Major Corporations
Meta’s Llama AI models are gaining significant traction in the business world, with major corporations like Goldman Sachs and AT&T using them.
OpenAI and Anthropic Sign Deals with U.S. Government for AI Model Safety Testing
AI powerhouses, OpenAI and Anthropic, have signed agreements with the U.S. government to research, test, and evaluate their AI models.
In this bootcamp, you’ll complete a total of 8 courses, including 5 live, hands-on training sessions and 3 optional prerequisite courses, all taught by a leading expert in the field. You’ll also receive code notebooks, comprehensive slides, and access to weekly office hours
ODSC Highlights
Here are the First Sessions Coming to the 2024 GenAi X Summit During ODSC West
The first sessions coming to the GenAi X Summit alongside ODSC West cover topics like LLM evaluation, integrating AI, and bias in generative AI.
8 Reasons Why Your Manager Wants You at ODSC West 2024
From filling in knowledge gaps to getting hands-on with the latest in AI, here are a few reasons why your company should want you to go to ODSC West 2024.
Thursday, September 19th | 6:00pm to 8:00pm | NYC
Join us at this meetup for an engaging evening with Rukma Sen from Google. Connect with AI practitioners and pioneers while enjoying food, drinks, and insightful discussions. Space is limited, so register now to secure your spot!
Unlocking Innovation: Explore Cutting-Edge AI Startups at ODSC West
No industry is immune from disruption and AI has become a core strategic advantage for many businesses. As part of our efforts to grow the data science community, we are offering our support to startups in these fields to help them spread the word to VCs, conference audiences, and the data science community.
AI Startup Make the Jump Dinner
Thursday, October 10th | 6:30pm to 8:30pm | San Francisco
If you are an experienced roboticist, AI, data science, or data engineering practitioner and exploring starting a company, ODSC in partnership with Cortical and Village Global would like to invite you to “make the jump” dinner. Apply now for a chance to participate, and we’ll be in touch if space is available.
New Podcast Episode: What Gaming Teaches Us About Generative AI: A Conversation with Hilary Mason
In this episode of ODSC’s Ai X Podcast, we speak with Hilary Mason about the intersection of gaming and generative AI.
Video of the Week: Generate Synthetic Tabular Data with GANs
Generative AI is popular nowadays, and we have seen lots of use cases applied to image and text data. Have you ever used it on tabular data? In this talk, the speaker will share her experiments and findings on generating synthetic tabular data using the latest tabular generative adversarial networks (TGANs).
Upcoming Webinars, Meetups, and Ai+ Live Training Sessions
Thursday, September 12th, 2024, 6:15 PM — 8:15 PM
Join your fellow AI and LLM enthusiasts on September 12th in Boston for an evening full of expert-led talks and networking.
Ai+ Live Training: Operationalizing AI/ML Applications on OpenShift
September 18th
This workshop will delve into the “FlyingThings” project, a sophisticated computer vision demo developed to demonstrate the integration of AI/ML workflows within OpenShift. Attendees will learn about deploying, training, and serving machine learning models using Nvidia GPU hardware and an array of tools from the Red Hat ecosystem and third-party applications. The session will also cover practical setup scripts, workshop instructions, and resources for advanced exploration.
Building Multimodal Question-Answering (RAG) system with Gemini
Thursday, September 26th, 12:00 PM ET
In this session, you will learn how you can leverage Gemini’s 2M context window and multimodal (text, image, audio & video) input to build a question-answering system for financial analysis. You will explore Vertex Gemini API, Vertex text embeddings, and Gemini’s cross-modal reasoning capabilities.
Ai+ Live Training: Structuring Healthcare Data for Usage with LLMs
October 16th
Getting your data RAG-ready for usage within LLM’s is no easy task. When your data consists of various patient chart document types (e.g. PDFs, HTML, PPT not to mention handwritten notes) you will have your work cut out for you. Join us in a workshop where we will structure healthcare patient data for usage with LLM’s. With the help of ‘unstuctured.io’ packages we will transform, clean, chunk, generate summaries and embeddings, then write our ‘structured’ healthcare data to a vector database (weaviate) where it can be used to interact with LLMs or Chatbots.
