DevJam Session: From Neural Nets to Next-Gen Tools

## Details

Hello everyone.
We are happy to announce our next meetup. It includes 2 presentations about the ever fascinating buzzword AI!

Schedule:
17:45 - 18:00: Walk-in and Welcome
18:00 - 18:45: The Developers guide to Generative AI
18:45 - 19:30: From Neural Networks to LLMs - The evolution of simple models to smart chatbots
19:30 - 21:00: Networking, Food, and Drinks

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Talk 1: The Developers guide to Generative AI
Amidst the surge of digital data, efficient and streamlined processing has become paramount for businesses worldwide. Presentation delves into the transformative capabilities of Azure Data Factory in automating data processing tasks. By harnessing the power of this cloud-based integration service, organizations can effortlessly orchestrate and automate data workflows, ensuring data is readily available for insights and decision-making. The piece further elucidates the key features, benefits, and real-world applications of Azure Data Factory, positioning it as an indispensable tool for modern data-driven enterprises.
Speaker: Bauke Brenninkmeijer - AI Engineer @Sytac
"I'm an machine learning engineer with 7 years of experience. I'm also passionate about calisthenics and an organizer for the MLOps Community Meetup in Amsterdam."

Talk 2: From Neural Networks to LLMs - The evolution of simple models to smart chatbots
Description:
ChatGPT and its clones are quite busy shaking up the world. Recent developments have people feeling like we're living in a sci-fi future, amazing and scary. But where did these models come from? The history of machine learning is a history of humble beginnings, dead ends, and unexpected breakthroughs. It's a history of using math in clever and intuitive ways, of huge engineering challenges, of slowly scaling to incredible model and data sizes. And by looking back, we can see how LLMs came to be. We can develop some intuition about how models work, and we can see how people actually develop model architectures that can have intelligent conversations.
Speaker: Tim Stokman - Machine Learning Engineer @Sytac
"I'm an experienced machine learning engineer at Sytac with a background in math and software engineering and more than 10 years of experience working with AI and data. I'm currently doing some extremely interesting work with IoT and computer vision."

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