NYC AI Users - AI Talks, Demo & Social: Recommendation and Multilingual LLMs
AI technology like OpenAI's ChatGPT, Google's Gemini, Anthropic's Claude, Midjourney and many others will play an increasingly large role in our day-to-day lives. To this end, New York AI Users will host our monthly tech talks & social gathering at Thoughtworks' private space in NoMad. We're very excited to host with Thoughtworks, a global tech consultancy. They will graciously provide free drinks and food for the event, and we're excited to take advantage of their top notch AV system for the talks. The space and accommodations will be perfect for our talks and the social that follows.
From the creators and organizers of New York Tech & Beer®, New York AI Users organizes high-quality AI events that both educate and connect AI enthusiasts in the New York area who use or want to use AI to meet their creative, entrepreneurial, and technical aspirations. No technical background is required, only an interest in learning about these tools of the future. Founders, engineers, and creatives are all welcome!
For our December meeting, we will gather at Thoughtworks and we will host:
Talks on AI:
For our first talk, we will hear from Wei-Yin Ko. Wei-Yin will discuss unique challenges (and opportunities) of building multilingual LLMs and why this is important. He will delve into the model development of a multi-lingual LLM and the differences compared to LLMs in English. How do we evaluate and what do we get out of this as users of LLMs? Wei-Yin Ko is a Member of Technical Staff in the multilingual team at Cohere, where his main focus is developing the multilingual capabilities of Cohere's generative Large Language Models (i.e. Command). He is also one of the original core members of the Aya initiative, which is an ongoing open science project by Cohere For AI to build multilingual LLMs that serve a wide array of languages. Prior to Cohere, Wei-Yin worked primarily on computer vision across industries from healthcare to livestreaming.
For our second talk, we will hear from James Brusseau. James will talk about recommendation algorithms and how they are driven by artificial intelligence to provide what we want. These algorithms also capture us in our established preferences and consequently inhibit the discovery of new interests. Netflix constantly proposes similar films, LinkedIn job opportunities replicate past roles, Tinder repeatedly surfaces the same person, but with a different name. We are trapped inside of who we are. This confinement is a restriction on human freedom, harmful to social wellbeing, and diminishing to company profit. To respond, we will ask how recommendation algorithms can be reengineered to provoke new curiosities and interests that allow us to break away from our own past and our established identity. James Brusseau (PhD, Philosophy) is a professor in the Philosophy Department at Pace University in New York City during the fall and winter, and he is a professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of Trento in Italy during the spring and summer. His academic research explores the human experience of artificial intelligence in the areas of personal identity, authenticity, and freedom.
After the talks, there will be social time with the attendees and the speakers for the remainder of the evening, with free drinks and food
We’re excited to see you soon!
Note: There will be no refunds for cancellations within 48 hours of the event