PyData Southampton - 14th Meetup

Venue: Carnival House, 100 Harbour Parade, Southampton, SO15 1ST
📢 Want to speak 📢: submit your talk proposal

Main Talks
1️⃣ How to Hack an Agent - or not, Thomas Fraunholz
LLMs are not safe. And it's not because of their ability to hallucinate while working. LLMs can be manipulated. So far, the known security mechanisms have not really proven to be solid. For example, if you use jailbreaks correctly, you can get an LLM to do things it is not supposed to do. But hey, what's stopping us from giving an LLM a little email summary? Nothing. Unless you connect it to an agent that can also send emails. Which brings us to the issue: Can an AI agent be secured where even an LLM cannot be secured? We want to approach this question by looking at state-of-the-art security concepts, from catching LLM task drift with activations, to prompt shields, spotlighting, and command hierarchy. Is my AI agent safe? Let's find out!

2️⃣ DeepICD: Deep learning for assessing one’s eligibility for an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator - Samuel Ward
This talk will begin by laying out the problems of surgical decision making and inappropriate shocks involved with implantable cardioverter-defibrillators. We will then present our deep learning tool and discuss how it may begin to solve these problems. Along the way we will discuss neural network architecture design, the training process and how to appropriately evaluate the model.

Lightning Talks ⚡
⚡1️⃣ TBD
⚡2️⃣ TBD

Please note:

1. 🚨🚨🚨A valid photo ID is required by building security. You MUST use your initial/first name and surname on your meetup profile, otherwise, you will NOT make it on the guest list! 🚨🚨🚨
2. This event follows the NumFOCUS Code of Conduct, please familiarise yourself with it before the event.

If your RSVP status says "You're going" you will be able to get in. No further confirmation required. You will NOT need to show your RSVP confirmation when signing in.
If you can no longer make it, please unRSVP as soon as you know so we can assign your place to someone on the waiting list.

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Code of Conduct:
This event follows the NumFOCUS Code of Conduct, please familiarise yourself with it before the event. Please get in touch with the organisers with any questions or concerns regarding the Code of Conduct.
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There will be pizza & drinks, generously provided by our host, Carnival UK.
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Logistics
Doors open at 6.30 pm, talks start at 7 pm. For those who wish to continue networking and chatting we will move to a nearby pub/bar for drinks from 9 pm.

Please unRSVP in good time if you realise you can't make it. We're limited by building security on the number of attendees, so please free up your place for your fellow community members!

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