Large Language Models: What Are They And How Do We Use Them?

This month we'll be featuring a talk by Luis Serrano, an expert on machine learning from Cohere, who is also our sponsor for this month.

The event will be in-person and hosted at the Cohere office (171 John St 2nd Floor, Toronto, ON M5T 1X3). We'll have drinks, food, and great conversation to boot.

Topic: Large Language Models: What Are They And How Do We Use Them?

Speaker: Luis Serrano

I have a belief: math, science, machine learning, etc., are all easy to understand!

Why do they look so hard, then? Because very often, beautiful concepts are hidden behind layers upon layers of abstraction, making them unnecessarily complex.

My goal is to pull the curtain and demystify these topics by explaining them with real-life concrete examples, and showing that most complex algorithms and formulas reduce to common sense when viewed from the right angle.

Ways to follow me:
- YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/c/LuisSerrano
- Homepage: http://serrano.academy
- Book - Grokking Machine Learning: https://www.manning.com/books/grokking-machine-learning

Schedule:

6:00pm - 6:45pm - Get to the venue, eat, socialize!

6:45pm - 7:30pm - Announcements / presentations

7:30pm - 8:00pm - Hang out some more, ask questions

Anyone who wants to keep chatting afterwards is welcome to head to a bar nearby as a group.

Sponsor:

Cohere

Cohere is the leading AI platform for enterprise. Our world-class AI is uniquely suited to the needs of business, unlocking unprecedented ease-of-use, accessibility, and data privacy. Cohere’s platform is cloud-agnostic, accessible through API as a managed service, and can be deployed on virtual private cloud (VPC) or even on-site to meet companies where their data is, offering the highest levels of flexibility and control.

Founded by Google Brain alumni and a co-author of the seminal Transformer research paper, Cohere is on a mission to transform enterprises and their products with AI that unlocks a more intuitive way to generate, search, and summarize information than ever before. We are backed by group of global institutional and strategic investors including Index Ventures, Oracle, NVIDIA, Salesforce Ventures, Inovia Capital, DTCP, Mirae Asset, Radical Ventures, Section 32, and Tiger Global, as well as several AI luminaries, including Geoffrey Hinton, Jeff Dean, Fei-Fei Li, Pieter Abbeel, and Raquel Urtasun.