November : Gemini Turns 3!
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We return this month with an evening to cover a range of topics at the frontier of AI - and please note that the topics below are "subject to change" depending on new model releases, etc...
Talks:
"SAM 3/3D; and Evolving Reasoning" - Martin Andrews
In his talk, Martin will describe several interesting recent works: (a) Meta's SAM 3/3D object segmentation; and (b) applying evolution to LLMs to enable them to improve their reasoning behaviours. Hopefully there will be time for some demos!
"Memento: Addressing the Most Undervalued Area of Agent Research?" - Nicholas Chen
Most retrieval strategies are static - potentially leading agents to get stuck retrieving irrelevant memories. In this lightning talk, Nicholas will address problems with the learning-to-retrieve paradigm, and show an example with "Memento: Fine-tuning LLM Agents without Fine-tuning LLMs" by reviewing its code (and skipping extra details from the paper).
"New Gemini, New Banana & New Agents" - Sam Witteveen
In this talk, Sam will look at some of the recent models and new agent-related tools that have been released and describe how you can put them all together for building higher quality LLM products and agents with longer time horizons.
FOOD UPDATE : Google has told us that there WILL BE pizza at the event
ALSO: Sign-ups are on MeetUp this time! Registration here should be FREE - if MeetUp requires you to sign up for a subscription somehow, let us know! (We haven't heard of this happening for registrations via their mobile app, FWIW).
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Talks will start at 7:20pm (entry at 7:00pm) and end at around 9:00pm, at which point people normally come up to the front for a bit of a chat with each other, and the speakers.
As always, we're actively looking for more speakers - both '30 minutes long-form', and lightning talks. For the lightning talks, we welcome folks to come and talk about something cool they've done with keras, PyTorch, JAX and/or Deep Learning for 5-10mins (so, if you have slides, then #max=10). We believe that the key ingredient for the success of a Lightning Talk is simply the cool/interesting factor. It doesn't matter whether you're an expert or an enthusiastic beginner: Given the responses we have had to previous talks, we're sure there are lots of people who would love to hear what you've been playing with. If you're interested in talking, please just introduce yourself to Martin at one of the events.