How to Build an LLM-powered QA bot

​Building a RAG Slack app for DataTalks.Club courses - Alex Litvinov

​About the event

​We’ll discuss basic Retrieval Augmented Generation applications and then dive into the implementation details of the ZoomcampQABot. This LLM-powered chatbot is integrated into the Slack channels of all three DatatalksClub courses: ML Zoomcamp, Data Engineering Zoomcamp, and MLOps Zoomcamp. It assists participants with queries related to the course or helps them solve problems encountered during their studies.

​Outline:

• ​Basic Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)

• ​ZoomcampQABot Implementation Details

• ​Evolution, Challenges, and Lessons Learned

• ​Potential Improvements

​About the speaker:

​Alex is an experienced Software Engineer with a background in bioinformatics, dedicated to the Healthcare and Life Sciences sector throughout his career. He is also deeply interested in everything related to ML/AI, with a recent focus on GenAI-related topics.

Zoomcamp QA Bot repo: https://github.com/aaalexlit/faq-slack-bot

​Resources that helped Alex to start with GenAI: https://bit.ly/genai-resources 

​Links:

• ​Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alex-l-45464424/

• ​Twitter: https://twitter.com/aaalexlit

• ​Medium: https://medium.com/@aaalex.lit

• ​GitHub: https://github.com/aaalexlit

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