AI Tinkerers Seattle Sept 2024

2024-09-26 I was there from 5:15 - 7:30

This event was held at the Google building in South Lake Union, so it was a wonderful auditorium

Google Cloud Startup Contest

Presentations

Killian showed his Open Interpreter Project: lets LLMs run code on your computer to complete tasks.

Hydra AI lets you chat with thousands of YC companies, send an email to them based on your natural language query.

Weights and Biases is an AI tool company that offered a raffle of some Meta Rayban glasses, so I signed up for an account on their Track, debug, evaluate, and monitor LLM apps with Weave, our new suite of tools for GenAI.

Their evangelist, Alex Volkov, does a weekly podcast of AI news called ThursdAI

Diego

  1. Diego Oppenheimer - Allegiance and Influence an AI agent game: Diego presented a strategic multiplayer game inspired by Dale Carnegie’s principles, teaching players how to persuade AI-driven historical figures.

  2. Michael Magan - hydra-ai: Michael showcased how to use hydra-ai, sharing code and insights from his experience in product management and AI.

  3. Varun Pant - Metabolix AI: Varun discussed how Metabolix AI provides personalized nutrition insights using AI to analyze dietary needs based on glucose data.

  4. Killian Lucas - Open Interpreter: Killian introduced a natural language interface for computers, simplifying interactions and enhancing productivity.

  5. Avi Arora - Lead Scoring: Avi explained how a human-in-the-loop lead scoring model can help B2B sales teams prioritize leads effectively.

  6. Skander Hannachi - Learn how to Augment a Vertex Gemini application with open source predictive ML models from Hugging Face: Skander demonstrated how to enhance Vertex Gemini applications by integrating predictive ML models.

  7. Vaibhav Gupta - Dev Rel automation: Vaibhav shared insights on automating curated responses for Reddit using a new programming language, highlighting practical applications of LLMs.

  8. Alex Volkov - Automating LLM as a judge with EvalForge and Weave: Alex discussed how to automate the creation of custom evaluation criteria for LLMs, helping attendees build tailored assessments. AI Tinkerers People