The Rise of Real-Time Deepfakes, NLP Techniques for Improving LLMs, Getting GenAI Into Production, and Can’t-Miss ODSC Europe Virtual Sessions

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5 min readAug 22, 2024

The Rise of Deepfakes: Understanding the Challenges and Opportunities

In a recent podcast, Ben Colman, an expert in AI and machine learning, delved into the intricate world of deepfakes, offering insights into how they work, their potential applications, and the challenges they present.

Three-Legged Side Projects: A Full Stack Data Scientist’s Secret Weapon

Full-stack data scientists have a lot to keep up with. Here’s how tackling side projects can help you stay on your toes & learn better.

Natural Language Processing Techniques That Improve Data Quality with LLMs

LLMs are high-powered probabilistic next-word generators, so the quality of the data they’re exposed to has a direct impact on the results that they generate.

Podcast: On Learning-Aware Mechanism Design with Michael I. Jordan

In this episode, Michael will delve into learning-aware mechanism design, a subfield of mechanism design, a branch of economics that studies the design of rules and procedures for decision-making.

How Predictive Analytics Aids Decision-Making in Healthcare

Predictive analytics is one of the most powerful applications of AI today. While virtually every industry can benefit from these predictions, the healthcare sector stands to gain more than most.

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The Impact of Large Language Models on the Labor Market: Insights from OpenAI’s Study

OpenAI published a paper not long ago about LLMs’ impact on the labor market. So here we take a deep dive into it and explore what it really means.

Best Practices for Integrating Generative AI into Production

This article delves into the key points of practical strategies for integrating generative AI into production systems.

How DALL-E 2 is Redefining Creativity and Intellectual Property in the Age of AI Art

Generative AI art tools are coming into the mainstream, so figuring out the best ways to navigate the ethics of AI is a crucial part of business processes.

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Data Science & AI News

ODSC’s AI Weekly Recap: Week of August 16th

This week’s AI news recap is all about Huawei challenging Nvidia, white dwarf detecting AI, and tons of open-source AI updates.

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Context-aware AI PINNACLE is Pushing the Limits of Protein Analysis

A new AI tool named PINNACLE has been developed to offer insights into protein behavior within their natural cellular contexts.

New Algorithm Detects Medical Conditions Through Tongue Color with 98% Accuracy

Researchers have unveiled an AI algorithm capable of diagnosing medical conditions by analyzing the color of a person’s tongue.

The leading AI technical conference, ODSC West, gathers hundreds of the top minds in AI and data to share their knowledge and expertise in AI Agents, AI Engineering, LLMs, RAG, AI for Robotics, and other in-demand skills.

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The Top ODSC Europe 2024 Virtual Sessions to Watch for Free

Here’s a rundown of some of the sessions we’re most excited about as part of ODSC Europe 2024 virtual.

10 Can’t-Miss Sessions Coming to ODSC Europe 2024

Here are our picks for 10 ODSC Europe 2024 sessions that you won’t want to miss based on AI trends, influential speakers, or existing interests.

Join us for the 2024 Data Engineering Summit!

We’re excited to announce that the Data Engineering Summit will be coming to ODSC West 2024 this October! Join us there to discover the latest trends, techniques, and tools in data engineering from experts, practitioners, and thought leaders. Topics include data engineering, cloud data services, data pipelines & integration, and plenty more.

New Podcast Episode: Predicting AI’s Impact on Work with Sam Manning

In this episode of ODSC’s Ai X Podcast, Sam Manning, Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for the Governance of AI, will discuss AI’s impact on work.

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Video of the Week: Infuse Generative AI in your apps using Azure OpenAI Service

In this talk, you’ll learn how businesses are using large language models to create personalized marketing text, summarize reports, and revolutionize conversational AI experiences. With Azure OpenAI Service, you can leverage advanced models like Dall-E 2, GPT-3.5, Codex, and ChatGPT to improve efficiencies, mitigate risks, and drive innovation.

Upcoming Webinars, Meetups, and Ai+ Live Training Sessions

Davis Square LLM Meetup

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, 2024

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.

Ai+ Live Training: Structuring Healthcare Data for Usage with LLMs

October 16th, 2024

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.

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