Large Language Models: Friend, Foe, or Otherwise • Alex Castrounis • GOTO 2023

This presentation was recorded at GOTO Chicago 2023. #GOTOcon #GOTOchgo Alex Castrounis - Professor of AI for Northwestern University’s Kellogg, McCormick MBAi Program & CEO of Why of AI @alexcastrounis RESOURCES ABSTRACT Alex Castrounis is the founder and CEO of Why of AI, a best-selling book author on AI, and a professor of AI for Northwestern University’s Kellogg / McCormick MBAi program. He has over two decades of experience advising startups to Fortune 100 companies on using data, analytics, and AI models to drive business growth and customer success. Alex is also a former INDYCAR engineer, race strategist, and data scientist that drove winning results for teams such as Andretti Autosport in world-renowned races, including the Indy 500. His experience applying analytics to make smarter, data-driven decisions in racing now helps businesses gain and maintain a competitive advantage in their industry. [...] TIMECODES 00:00 Intro 00:52 Intro questions 01:06 AI today 07:42 What does a positive AI future look like? 08:36 Capabilities 10:49 What about coding? 11:39 Evolution 16:39 Overview 34:16 Tools 35:47 Pitfalls & concerns 41:40 Why are LLMs beneficial? 42:04 The future of work 47:04 AI won’t take your job, someone using AI will 48:48 Now is the time to seize the day 49:24 Focus on & master what AI can’t do 50:04 Outro Read the full abstract here: RECOMMENDED BOOKS Phil Winder • Reinforcement Learning • Holden Karau, Trevor Grant, Boris Lublinsky, Richard Liu & Ilan Filonenko • Kubeflow for Machine Learning • Kelleher & Tierney • Data Science (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series) • Lakshmanan, Robinson & Munn • Machine Learning Design Patterns • Lakshmanan, Görner & Gillard • Practical Machine Learning for Computer Vision • Aurélien Géron • Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn, Keras & TensorFlow • #AI #ML #DataScience #ChatGPT #GPT4 #SoftwareEngineering #Programming #ArtificialIntelligence #MachineLearning #LLM #LargeLanguageModels #FutureOfWork #AlexCastrounis Looking for a unique learning experience? Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket at Sign up for updates and specials at SUBSCRIBE TO OUR CHANNEL - new videos posted almost daily.