The Top ODSC East 2024 Virtual Sessions to Watch For Free, Gen AI in Finance, and Must-Read Sci-fi Books About AI

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The Top ODSC East 2024 Virtual Sessions to Watch for Free

Check out this selection of ODSC East 2024 virtual highlights that you can now watch for free whenever you want!

Podcast: The Shifting LLM Landscape with John Dickerson

In this episode, John Dickerson, co-founder and Chief Scientist of Arthur AI, joins us for a conversation about the shifting large language model landscape.

Podcast: Deep Reinforcement Learning in the Real World with Anna Goldie

In this podcast, Anna Goldie, Senior Staff Research Scientist at Google DeepMind, joins us for a discussion of deep reinforcement learning in the real world.

6 Ways to Use Generative AI in Finance

Let’s take a look at a few ways that generative AI is poised to enhance the world of finance in the short and medium terms.

A Practical Guide to RAG Pipeline Evaluation (Part 2: Generation)

Generation evaluation is all about assessing LLM-generated answers. This is different from retrieval evaluation where the task is to assess the quality of Information Retrieval (which may or may not involve LLMs).

Network with AI experts, data science professionals, and ML engineers from across the globe and dive deep into 130+ sessions over 2 action-packed days, offered both in-person and virtually

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Must-Read Sci-Fi Books About AI to Fill Your Summer Reading List

These sci-fi books about AI are sure to entertain you for hours and can show what the potential of the field offers.

Podcast: Data Science Interview Tips & Tricks with Microsoft’s Leondra Gonzalez

In today’s episode of ODSC’s Ai X Podcast, we speak with Leondra Gonzalez, Senior Data & Applied Scientist at Microsoft, about the data science interview process in 2024.

5 AI Management Tools for Business Leaders

Let’s explore five AI tools that can revolutionize the way business leaders manage projects, communicate, and handle documents, all while boosting overall productivity.

7 Things That Can Go Wrong With Generative AI

Let’s take a trip and delve into the key issues associated with generative AI, emphasizing the importance of responsible AI practices.

Data Science & AI News

ODSC’s AI Weekly Recap: Week of May 3rd

This week’s AI Weekly Recap is all about Meta’s future with AI, Microsoft’s expansion in Asia, an AI-powered asteroid detector, and more AI news. Sign up here to get this as a newsletter every Friday morning.

OpenAI Looks to Balance Risks and Model Capabilities

As the next ChatGPT is poised to launch, OpenAI is working to remain at the forefront of AI while balancing capabilities and risks.

Major Tech CEOs from Google, OpenAI, Microsoft, and More Join Federal AI Safety Panel

CEOs from companies leading the charge in AI have now joined the U.S. government’s federal AI safety panel.

New Report Shows Apple Poaching Google AI Talent

Apple is quietly ramping up its artificial intelligence capabilities. How? By poaching top talent from rival Google and others.

HHS Outlines New Framework for Responsible AI Use in Public Benefits Administration

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has released a detailed plan to guide the responsible implementation of AI technologies by state, local, tribal, and territorial governments.

MIT Researchers Map Brain Pathways of Visual Images Being Recognized

Researchers from the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory have discovered how some images linger in our memories while others fade away.

ODSC West returns to the heart of Silicon Valley Oct 29th-31st, and we are bringing AI thought leaders, renowned instructors, and experienced practitioners to share their expertise on AI in robotics, ML/DL, LLMs, gen AI, and more! Register here!

ODSC Highlights

Announcing ODSC Europe 2024 This September

ODSC Europe will return to London this September 5th-6th! Here’s what you can expect from the hottest AI event in Europe this fall.

New Podcast Episode: DBRX and Open Source Mixture of Experts LLMs with Hagay Lupesko

Our topic today is the the open-source DBRX large language model, which stands out in the LLM AI landscape due to its innovative use of the Mixture of Experts (MoE) architecture. This architecture allows DBRX to efficiently scale by distributing tasks across 64 combinable experts.

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Video of the Week: ODSC Webinar | The Power of Feature Engineering for Manufacturing Data Scientists

Hear from Hari Narayanan, a key member of dotData’s data science team, as he delves into the power of predictive analytics, machine learning, and feature engineering in the manufacturing landscape. Uncover the challenges of predictive maintenance use cases, challenging conventional approaches, and discover the potential of alternative methodologies like feature engineering.

Upcoming Webinars and Meetups:

Reliable Data Orchestration for AI Applications

Wed, May 15, 2024 12:00 PM — 1:00 PM EDT

As Apache Airflow has become the standard for both data processing and machine learning pipelines, it has been foundational in supporting AI applications by providing an easy-to-use platform to build advanced data workflows. Join us for this webinar where resident AI/ML experts will explore the best practices for successfully getting AI into production and more.

Hybrid Intelligence: Accelerating End-to-End Financial Processing and Reporting with Pre-Trained and Custom ML Models

Tue, Jun 18, 2024 12:00 PM — 1:00 PM EDT

Speed and accuracy of processing and reporting are paramount in the financial services industry, yet the sector has been slow to fully embrace emerging technologies, such as artificial intelligence, to significantly enhance these processes. This webinar introduces an innovative approach to overcoming these obstacles

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