AI Deep Dive: LLMs and Vector Databases

** Raffle at the end: two Designing Machine Learning Systems, O'Reilly

GDG Cloud London is thrilled to be collaborating with AICamp (https://www.meetup.com/London-AI-Tech-Talk/) for a deep dive into the AI world.

The event will be held at Cathedral View, Carlisle Place, St. Vincents Centre, London, SW1P 1NL.

This meet-up is a unique opportunity to connect with fellow AI enthusiasts, industry practitioners, and researchers in a dynamic and interactive setting. Whether you are a seasoned AI professional or just curious about the latest advancements in Generative AI, LLMs and Vector Databases, this meet-up is for you! Join us for an insightful and thought-provoking discussion on the forefront of AI innovation and practices.

This event is sponsored by Weativate.

At the end of the event, we'll give away two O'Reilly books: Designing Machine Learning Systems (paperback).

Don't miss out, RSVP now!

Agenda

6:00 PM: Arrivals and Check In

6:30 PM: Welcome / Community Update

6:45 PM: Zain Hasan - Using Vector Databases with Multimodal Embeddings and Search At Scale

Many real-world problems are inherently multimodal, from the communicative modalities humans use such as spoken language and gestures to the force, proprioception, and visual sensors ubiquitous in robotics. In order for machine learning models to address these problems and interact more naturally and wholistically with the world around them and ultimately be more general and powerful reasoning engines we need them to understand data across all of its corresponding image, video, text, audio, and tactile representations. In this talk we will discuss how we can use open-source multimodal models, that can see, hear, read, and feel data(!), to perform cross-modal search(searching audio with images, videos with text etc.) at the billion-object scale with the help of open source vector databases. I will also demonstrate, with live code demos and large-scale datasets, how being able to perform this cross-modal retrieval in real-time can help users add natural search interfaces to their apps. This talk will revolve around how we scaled the usage of multimodal embedding models in production and how you can add cross-modal search into your apps.

7:15 PM: JP Hwang - Bringing LLMs to Your Data

In this talk, JP explains how Weaviate redefines what you thought was possible in a database. JP will begin by showing how you can use Weaviate to effectively search data, before moving on to show you how you can use generative search (retrieval augmented generation) with Weaviate to transform your data at retrieval time with LLMs.

7:45 PM: Raffle and Networking

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Speakers

Zain Hasan - Weaviate (Developer Relations)

Joon-Pil Hwang - Weaviate (Developer Relations)

Hosted By

Amanda Cavallaro, GDG Organizer

I'm an Aikidoka, Developer Advocate, Software Developer, Google Developers Expert, Linkedin Learning Author and a Full Stack Web Development Specialist.

Saverio Terracciano, GDG Organizer

Stefano Le Pera, GDG Organizer

Lorenzo Turrino, GDG Organizer

Alessandro Puccetti, GDG Organizer

My name is Alessandro Puccetti, I am Italian 🇮🇹 but I am in fact a citizen of the world 🌎. I love travelling and meeting new people from different cultures, and I enjoy having a particular focus on their food 😉.

Kubra Harmankaya, GDG Organizer

Natalie Godec, GDG Organizer

Bruno Ripa, GDG Organizer

I am an italian software architect, in the industry since 2006. I have been in entrepreneurship in Italy, for 6 years, and then continued my career in United Kingdom, in London (2012), a city (or, better, the City) which I consider as my second home. I have worked in several industries (gaming, fintech, digital asset management) and in many companies, with a 3 years parenthesis in Spain (2017-2020), precisely in Barcelona, where I have worked as a contractor for a few USA startups and an european company working in IoT. In March 2020 I made my way back in London, working for Erlang Solutions.
Actually I am a contractor and Consultant at BBC

Arianna Capizzi, GDG Organizer

Jen Kwon, GDG Organizer

Complete your event RSVP here: https://gdg.community.dev/events/details/google-gdg-cloud-london-presents-ai-deep-dive-llms-and-vector-databases/.