Practical Advice for Working with Large Language Models - Ned Letcher 

Practical Advice for Working with Large Language Models - Ned Letcher
From the July 2023 Melbourne Machine Learning and AI Meetup: www.meetup.com...
Talk Description: In this talk, I’ll dig into the practical side of pathways for starting your innovation journey into leveraging large language models (LLMs). Some of the core questions we’ll cover: choosing between self-hosting and managed services over APIs, different strategies for aligning LLMs to your domain and their associated dependencies: prompt-engineering vs supervised fine-tuning vs task fine-tuning through reinforcement learning through human feedback; all being subjected to the question of which pathways are enterprise-ready?
Speaker Bio: Ned Letcher is a lead data science engineer at Thoughtworks, where he helps organisations design and build data-powered products and applications, and uplift data and AI strategy. He has a fondness for Python, NLP, and data-viz, which has seen him speaking at and sometimes organising a range of meetups, trainings, and conferences. According to Midjourney's /describe command, he rocks a woodland goth and poetcore aesthetic.
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