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

This presentation was recorded at GOTO Chicago 2023. #GOTOcon #GOTOchgo https://gotochgo.com Alex Castrounis (@alexcastrounis) - Professor of AI for Northwestern University's Kellogg, McCormick MBAi Program & CEO of @WhyofAI RESOURCES https://www.whyofai.com https://www.whyofai.com/ai-book Alex https://twitter.com/alexcastrounis https://linkedin.com/in/alexcastrounis 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: https://gotochgo.com/2023/sessions/2611 RECOMMENDED BOOKS Alex Castrounis • AI for People and Business • https://amzn.to/3NYKKTo Phil Winder • Reinforcement Learning • https://amzn.to/3t1S1VZ Holden Karau, Trevor Grant, Boris Lublinsky, Richard Liu & Ilan Filonenko • Kubeflow for Machine Learning • https://amzn.to/3JVngcx Kelleher & Tierney • Data Science (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series) • https://amzn.to/3AQmIRg Lakshmanan, Robinson & Munn • Machine Learning Design Patterns • https://amzn.to/2ZD7t0x Lakshmanan, Görner & Gillard • Practical Machine Learning for Computer Vision • https://amzn.to/3m9HNjP Aurélien Géron • Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn, Keras & TensorFlow • https://amzn.to/2XZaQy8 https://twitter.com/GOTOcon https://www.linkedin.com/company/goto- https://www.facebook.com/GOTOConferences #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 https://gotopia.tech Sign up for updates and specials at https://gotopia.tech/newsletter SUBSCRIBE TO OUR CHANNEL - new videos posted almost daily. https://www.youtube.com/user/GotoConferences/?sub_confirmation=1