Albuquerque Dot Net Users Group

Barry Stahl is a well-known and highly respected teacher, presenter and engineer who will be coming to Albuquerque to talk to us in person! He'll be digging into one of the most interesting and important emerging topics in AI: Model Reasoning.

From Barry:
What if I told you that advanced "thinking" AI models are just regular models that learned a new trick? In this session, we'll use Azure Foundry to demonstrate the transformative power of fine-tuning. We'll explore how chain-of-thought models, those that generate visible reasoning in THINK tags, are simply fine-tuned versions of standard transformers. This elegant example teaches us two critical concepts: how transformers use their own output tokens as input for subsequent predictions, and how fine-tuning can create entirely new model behaviors without architectural changes, and without requiring huge datasets.

Agenda:
6:00 PM - Dinner & Social
6:30 PM - Feature Presentation
7:30 PM - Q&A
8:00 PM - Optional after-party at Alien Bar

Speaker and topic still TBD

We'll have an in person speaker, Medhat Elmasry from Vancouver, BC, for our April meeting! More details soon.