Making LLMs Friendly With Fine-Tuning, Open-Source Data Engineering Tools, and GPT Store Highlights

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4 min readFeb 8, 2024

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Making Your LLM More Friendly With Fine-Tuning

In this unique LLM use case, the author uses fine-tuning to help him build a new friend based on characters from the show Friends.

A Beginner’s Guide to Build Your Own LLM-Based Solutions With the KNIME AI Extension

In this blog, learn how you can build your own LLM-based solutions using KNIME, a low-code/no-code analytics platform.

11 Open-Source Data Engineering Tools Every Pro Should Use

These 11 open-source data engineering tools are must-haves for any practitioner or academic who wants to excel in what they do.

Highlights of the OpenAI’s New GPT Store

OpenAI recently opened up its GPT Store, and here are a few popular GPTs that users are loving right now.

Get hands-on, practical experience with cutting-edge, industry-revolutionizing tools from a wide range of disciplines like Generative AI, Machine Learning, LLMs, Data Visualization, LLMOps, and MLOps with your entire team. Register now for 50% off!

Industry, Opinion, Career Advice

Generative AI, Ethics, and Social Good

With proper training practices and ethical awareness of potential misuse, generative AI offers many options for low-cost, high-efficacy social good initiatives.

Boston Code and Coffee @ Northeastern

Saturday, February 10, 12:00 PM EST

Code and Coffee is an inclusive, informal co-working and networking session. People of all skill levels attend, and we love it that way. Many people (optionally) bring projects to work on, and many other people (optionally) socialize the entire time. It’s entirely up to you!

The Rollercoaster Ride of AI: Hype, Hope, and Reality

Society’s adoption of innovation seems destined to traverse a bumpy course from hype to disillusionment, yet beneath each cycle substantive progress accrues.

Prefect: Unveiling Interactive Workflows

Interactive workflows open up a ton of use cases: approval workflows; branching logic; AI/LLM inputs; continuous data streams; and more. To DIY you need to: host an API, build a UI, and run or rent a database. Instead, use Prefect where interactive workflows are now natively supported. Check out this human-in-the-loop tutorial to learn more about how you can build interactive workflows using Prefect.

Data Science & AI News

ODSC’s AI Weekly Recap: Week of February 2nd

This week’s AI Weekly Recap is all about the new Python framework Taipy, AI-powered crop-livestock integration, and more AI news highlights.

New Open Source Python Library Named Taipy Offers Streamlined Data Science Applications

Taipy, a new Python library on GitHub, is designed for easy, end-to-end application development for data scientists and machine learning engineers.

New Method Brings Together AI and Satellite Imagery To Map Crop-Livestock Integration Systems

A recent study reported a new AI-powered method of identifying crop-livestock integration areas by analyzing satellite images.

John Snow Labs Sets New Standards in Healthcare AI with Record-Breaking Growth in 2023

John Snow Labs, a leading innovator in the field of AI for healthcare, has marked 2023 as its most triumphant year to date.

ODSC Highlights

Learn About LLMs With These ODSC East 2024 Sessions

From GPT-4 to building LLM applications, these are 13 can’t-miss sessions to up your LLM game at ODSC East this April.

Hands-On Training Sessions Coming to ODSC East

Data science training can be the difference maker for those looking to make moves in their career. Here are a few standout sessions coming to ODSC East this April.

Weekly Recap Newsletter

Want to get a weekly digest of AI news from around the world every Friday? Sign up for our new newsletter here!

New Podcast Episode: The Modern Data Science Development Toolkit with Greg Michaelson

In this engaging discussion on the modern data science development toolkit, Greg Michaelson takes you through the tools, skills, and techniques that will help you improve your end-to-end development process.

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Video of the Week: Generative AI vs. AGI: Strengths and Weaknesses of Large Language Models

This enlightening video contrasts the cognitive capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT and GPT-4 with human intelligence, emphasizing the limitations of current AI in achieving true Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).

Upcoming Webinars:

Space-Time Hotspot Analysis of a Human Mobility Index using CARTO

Tue, Feb 13, 2024 12:00 PM — 1:00 PM EST

In this webinar, we will analyze a large-scale human mobility dataset across the entire UK to provide actionable insights into the dynamics of human mobility. Using CARTO, we will identify high-intensity hotspots emerging in urban centers and key transportation hubs, reflecting areas of heightened activity. Conversely, cold spots will reveal regions with unusual mobility fluctuations, necessitating further investigation.

Inference Benchmarking of Prominent Open-Source LLMs

Tue, Feb 27, 2024 12:00 PM — 1:00 PM EST

In the upcoming webinar, we delve into the inference benchmarking of prominent open-source Large Language Models such as the 13B and 70B Llama-2. We have used a diverse range of compute shapes available inOracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), like Intel, AMD, ARM CPUs, and NVIDIA GPUs.

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