Letting AI Out of the Box (at All Things AI Conference)
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NOTE: YOU MUST REGISTER at https://2026.allthingsai.org/letting-ai-out-of-the-box
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I have been asked to give a presentation at the All Things AI Conference in Durham on March 23rd. This is a paid conference, but my session and a few others are free to anyone who registers for the free events. This should be a fun time!
For anyone who can't afford the tickets I know the ATO managers are pretty open for "scholarship" tickets. Ping them to see if they have any available.
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This session is going to show different ways to allow AI to interact with the world, and to show ways to interact with AI that go beyond the keyboard and mouse.
We will demonstrate and explain how AI can be used for Function calling in scripts and how to integrate voice commands and response in AI scripts.
We’ll demonstrates examples of using computer vision and show why systems that provide x/y coordinates allow you to do some pretty cool things.
We’ll demonstrate how to use AI with Raspberry Pi’s and Arduino’s to trigger physical events with relays and servos along with discussing the systems architecture required for AI in an IoT environment.
Finally we’ll show how Twilio and ElevenLabs can be used to build telephone AI agents that can trigger events on servers.
The goal of this session is to expand the view of AI beyond the datacenter and on how to create useful tools in for the physical world. This will be a lot of demonstration with only specifics snippets of the code broken out and explained.
Code for all of the projects will be on GitHub for further review.