Wed, Feb 7th: “The ABCs of GPTs,” 6:30 PM, CU Boulder

The Rocky Mountain AI Interest Group (RMAIIG) will host an in-person meeting on Wednesday, February 7th at 6:30 PM MDT in Boulder on “The ABCs of GPTs.”

We will learn from Liza Adams and Daniel Ritchie about custom versions of ChatGPT, known as GPTs. These personalized editions of ChatGPT combine instructions, extra knowledge, and any combination of skills for specific needs or tasks. You can build these yourself, without code, and have the opportunity to share your customized GPTs with others. OpenAI has created a GPT Store which highlights a reported 3 million of these custom AI bots.

“The ABCs of GPTs”
CU Boulder: In-person
ATLAS building (Room 100)
1125 18th St, Boulder, CO 80309
Wed, Feb 7th
6:30 - 8:30 PM MDT (note new time, 30 mins later than usual due to venue availability!)
Free Pizza at 6 PM

Our first speaker, Liza Adams, will help us understand what GPTs (custom Generative Pre-trained Transformers) make possible, their impact, and the different types of GPTs. As GPTs accelerate innovation and creativity, see some GPTs in action and learn about how you can get the most value from them as a builder and user.

With over 20 years of experience in B2B technology, Liza Adams has held marketing executive roles at industry leaders like Smartsheet, Juniper Networks, Brocade (now Broadcom), Pure Storage, Encompass Technologies, and Level 3 (now Lumen). As a Managing Partner at GrowthPath Partners, she serves high-growth businesses in three distinct roles: as a fractional Chief Marketing Officer, an executive advisor, and an AI consultant. A recognized thought leader in the AI space, Liza is a prolific writer and public speaker. Her work focuses on the responsible use of AI, its strategic value, the future of work, and its application in strategic go-to-market and marketing use cases. Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lizaadams/ website: https://www.growthpath.net/

Next, Daniel Ritchie will start with the basics of GPTs and go deeper, covering what they are, what they are not, and how you can leverage them for your own AI powered solutions. We will touch on various aspects of GPTs in this approachable overview, and you will walk away with an understanding of the massive transformative potential of GPTs.

Daniel was one of the hosts and judges at the recent GPT Hackathon event, hosted by RMAIIG's AI for Entrepreneurs and Startups (AES) Subgroup. He is an entrepreneur, dreamer, and forward thinking technologist captivated by the disruptive nature of AI. His current focus is building the Brain Wave Collective, a groundbreaking approach to employment and equity building, exploring new models at the intersection of technology and community. He provides services through LetsBuildGPTs.com, where he shows that the learning curve for mastering these advancements is more manageable than often perceived.

We have free pizza sponsored by Arize AI, an AI observability and LLM evaluation platform, yay! The company’s LLM observability tools – including its popular task-based LLM evaluation libraries and tools for troubleshooting LLM traces and spans, RAG, and prompt iteration – are counted on every day by top enterprises. Learn more about the company’s platform and open source libraries at [Arize.com](http://arize.com/) and phoenix.arize.com.

Sponsors Claire Longo and Mikyo King of Arize AI will be doing a demo post-meeting. We'll be demoing Arize Phoenix OSS, their open source tool to visualize complex LLM decision-making.

We want to thank the following for generously arranging and providing an awesome meeting space for RMAIIG: Grace Wilson, John Bacus, Mark D. Gross, the University of Colorado and the Roser ATLAS Center at CU Boulder.

Image credit: DALL-E3 via ChatGPT Plus