SoftwareGR Speaker Series: Drew Colthorp on AI tooling for work

SoftwareGR presents our October Speaker Series event! Join us at 5:30 for networking and pizza with the talk starting around 6:00.

The Tooling Scene for Using AI at Work

Since the release of ChatGPT, LLM-based AI tools have largely been centered around simple chat interfaces or embedded within code editors or note-taking apps, with models that predict the next token in a sequence. Recently, the major AI players have begun to move beyond these basic patterns, introducing more advanced tools and capabilities.

This talk will dive into recent innovations in AI tooling, focusing on how these new products and models improve over the chat tools we’ve relied on so far. We’ll survey a range of emerging and lesser-known tools, including OpenAI’s new reasoning model ‘o1’ and ChatGPT Canvas, a beta workflow designed for iterating on documents and code, and others.

Come see how some of these new and lesser-known AI-based tools can help you and your team communicate, code, and execute better. We’re looking forward to seeing you there!