Best Practices and Tips for LLM Application Engineering - Dr Julian Seidenberg

Join us to learn from Dr Julian Seidenberg, a seasoned Artificial Intelligence Architect with two decades of experience, as he shares insights on best practices and tips for developing solutions using Large Language Model API’s.

There will be something for everyone, including software engineers and non-developers, ranging from beginner to very advanced techniques. You will learn proven tips and tricks and theory behind why these tricks work. This will include:

• Key principles for success in LLM Applications Engineering.
• What is GPT?
• Basic prompting
• What is a token?
• GPT output formats
• Speed/cost vs. accuracy trade-off
• To replace humans or augment humans?
• Techniques, tips and tricks to improve GPT responses.
• Microsoft Azure vs. OpenAI
• Which LLM is best?
• Third-party libraries.
• LLMs are eating the world (of AI).
• Surviving the firehose of AI announcements.

This is a fantastic opportunity to learn what it takes to succeed in this hugely important domain which is full of opportunity at present.

Itinerary
6:00 pm - Pizza, drinks & networking (gf & vegan available for those who need them)
6:20 pm - Welcome
6:25 pm - Keynote

Many thanks to Vector Technology Solutions (VTS) for sponsoring and hosting this event!

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