Making AI More Accessible With LLM Alignment, Prompt Engineering Skills, and a 2-for-1 ODSC West Ticket Offer

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5 min readSep 28, 2023

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Harnessing LLM Alignment: Making AI More Accessible

Let’s look at an example of using two classifiers from Hugging Face to enhance the FLAN-T5 model’s ability to write summaries of news articles that are both grammatically polished and consistently neutral in style.

5 Must-Have Skills to Get Into Prompt Engineering

From having a profound understanding of AI models to creative problem-solving, here are 5 must-have skills for any aspiring prompt engineer.

The Implications of Scaling Airflow

Wondering why you’re spending days just deploying code and ML models? Read about Airflow’s limitations at scale, aka its inability to accommodate diverse infrastructure, trigger criteria, and code structure. This all leads to the more pythonic way to orchestrate code: Prefect.

Microsoft and MIT Researchers Hope to Reduce AI Hallucinations with DoLa

In a paper from a group of researchers from MIT and Microsoft, a new approach called DoLa may reduce instances of AI hallucinations.

9 Open Source LLMs and Agents to Watch

These are some interesting and new LLMs and LLM agents that we are following and that you should be too.

SuperDataScience Podcast

The most listened-to podcast in the industry, SuperDataScience brings you the latest machine learning, artificial intelligence, and data career topics from across both academia and industry. In lighthearted conversation with renowned guests, host Dr. Jon Krohn cuts through the hype to fuel your professional impact. Check it out here!

How Data Scientists Can Benefit from Using LinkedIn More

Let’s discuss how to use LinkedIn to your advantage as a data scientist to find a new job, highlight your expertise, and expand your network.

Buy 1 in-person or virtual pass to the leading AI training conference ODSC West, or the Ai X Summit, and get another of the same type for free. Save over $600 for the first time ever! The sale ends today!

Upcoming Event: AI Business Leaders Conference

October 18, 2023 | Northeastern University | Boston

Join us for a day-long event exclusively designed for business leaders, featuring captivating keynote presentations and interactive, actionable breakout sessions led by esteemed AI experts including Peter Norvig (Google/Stanford), Ashok Srivasta (CDO, Intuit) Michelle Gansle (VP of Global Insights and Analytics, McDonald’s) and Ronke Ekwensi (CDO, T-Mobile) and more.

Amazon Self Publishing Service to Crack Down on AI-Generated Content

Amazon’s self-publishing service, Amazon Kindle, is now looking to crack down on AI-generated content on its platform.

OpenAI Accelerating Efforts to Release a Multimodal LLM called GPT-Vision

In order to beat rival Google, OpenAI is reportedly accelerating efforts to release the multimodal LLM GPT-Vision, codenamed Gobi.

According to Analyst: Apple ‘Far Behind’ Microsoft, Google on Generative AI

Apple’s position in the rapidly evolving world of generative AI is seeing the company lagging behind competitors like Google and Microsoft.

George R.R. Martin and Other Authors Sue OpenAI

George R.R. Martian, Jodi Picoult, and John Grisham with other authors filed a lawsuit against OpenAI for “systematic theft on a mass scale.”

Amazon Pushes Further Into AI With $4 Billion Investment in Anthropic

Amazon has claimed a greater stake in the AI race with a new $4 billion investment into AI startup Anthropic.

10 Can’t-Miss Sessions on Language Models Coming to ODSC West 2023

Generative AI and LLMs will be stand-out topics at ODSC West in a few weeks, and here are some sessions that will represent the future of the field.

How In-Person Training at ODSC West Can Give Your Team the Edge

Here are a few reasons why in-person training can give your team the edge in the ever-growing AI landscape.

9 Reasons Why Your Boss Wants You at ODSC West 2023

From learning new content to generating more leads, here are a few reasons why your boss would want you at ODSC West this year.

10 Trending Topics Coming to ODSC West 2023

With topics like monitoring drift, AI in gaming, and LLMs, these are a few trending topics coming to ODSC West in a few weeks.

Video of the Week: Large Language Models Are Not (Necessarily) Generative AI

In this talk, Professor Karin Verspoor, Dean of the School of Computing Technologies at RMIT University, will clarify what constitutes an LLM, explore various architectures, and help you discern when an LLM qualifies as a generative model.

Upcoming Webinars:

Lightning Interview: “AI Code Assistants & The Future of Software Development”

Fri, Sep 29, 2023 12:00 PM EDT

AI code assistants have the potential to not only free developers from time-consuming, repetitive tasks, and make code accessible to a wider range of roles and skill levels, but also to introduce increased privacy and security risk, as well as bias.

Time Series Forecasting: ARIMA, Prophet, vs. Advanced Feature Engineering

Thu, Oct 5, 2023 12:00 PM — 1:00 PM EDT

Join dotData Sr. Data Scientist Sharada Narayanan as she dives into the strengths, uses, and limitations of popular time-series forecasting techniques like ARIMA and Prophet. Sharda will walk through real-world examples, share code snippets, and explore how ARIMA Prophet compares when building models using Feature Engineering techniques and advanced machine learning algorithms.

Responsible model training, monitoring, and comparison with Azure Machine Learning

Tue, Oct 10, 2023 12:00 PM — 1:00 PM EDTBuilding and using AI models responsibly to deploy, evaluate, and monitor: As Generative AI goes mainstream, it’s critical to employ best practices in safety & quality. Come learn how Microsoft builds responsible AI leveraging Azure OpenAI, Azure Content Safety, PromptFlow, and Model Monitoring for Generative AI.

Lightning Interview: “No-Code and Low-Code AI: The New Era of Inclusive Tech Development”

Fri, Oct 20, 2023 1:00 PM EDT

This live, virtual lightning interview, with Gwendolyn D. Stripling, PhD, Lead AI & ML Content Developer at Google Cloud and author of Low-Code AI: A Practical Project-Driven Introduction to Machine Learning, will explore how low- and no-code AI is ushering in an era for more inclusive tech development. Discover how aspiring citizen data scientists, business analysts, data analysts, students, and data scientists can get hands-on and experiment with and work on tech development.

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