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Hello, I'm glad you found the prompt engineering talk useful! Generative actions is a great idea being worked on! I think you will start seeing more of this technology in the coming months. e.g. With Microsoft Power Virtual Agents - when a turbine issue arises, the AI system can automatically initiate an API call to the subcontractor management service, triggering their dispatch to the site for assistance. This way, your AI system not only provides information but also actively coordinates actions in response to alerts, streamlining the entire process.

I also spoke about ReAct (reasoning + action) prompting strategy that combines reasoning and acting with LLMs prompting. This allows the AI system to perform dynamic reasoning to create, maintain, and adjust action plans.

Some resources:

ReAct Conference paper by Google Brain - https://arxiv.org/pdf/2210.03629.pdf

ReAct Prompting guide - https://www.promptingguide.ai/techniques/react

Microsoft Power Virtual Agents - https://powervirtualagents.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/reinvent-your-ai-assistants-with-generative-answers-actions-and-more-in-microsoft-power-virtual-agents/

Yes! Watch this tutorial - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LE3NfEULV6k

You may also like to consider fine-tuning - https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/training

What Yann LeCun said: https://twitter.com/ylecun/status/1659172655663030272?lang=en

I think it holds a lot of promise for financial industry, think about how you can use it in customizing/refining trade strategies, rapidly analyzing financial data and news, and conducting sentiment analysis. It can help you achieve results faster, and more efficiently. it's not a crystal ball though, you'll still need to know your stuff :)

Good question - On the one hand, if you are looking for control, customization, portability and interoperability, then go for self hosted. But you will require technical expertise, it will take time, and hosting large scale models is not always easy. You need to maintain it as well as the infrastructure you are hosting it on, e.g. patching any vulnerabilities (especially critical and highs) that show up on a weekly basis (if not daily..) - which may not be the exact focus for your business. On the other hand, you can offload some of the undifferentiated heavy lifting to other companies for some convenience in using their user friendly APIs, take advantages of security updates, and ability to easily integrate to their ecosystem, as well as support. But this comes at an expense, you will often need to pay for usage fees, and some company hosted models are not very portable. So you need to strike a balance.

Absolutely, it's an excellent approach to have a strong foundation in both computer programming and AI studies. This is highly valuable in a field where practical application and technical knowledge go hand in hand.

I started here https://learnprompting.org/docs/intro and here https://www.promptingguide.ai/

Check out this page https://learnprompting.org/docs/category/-tooling

One piece of advice I would offer to international students is to embrace the opportunity for cultural immersion. Studying in a foreign country provides a good chance to learn about different cultures, traditions, and perspectives. But, never lose sight of who you are. Your unique perspectives, values, and background are what make you an interesting and valuable, so don't feel pressured to change yourself to fit in

My goal is to contribute in uncovering the principles giving rise to intelligence while favoring the development of AI for the benefit of all.

Staying up to date involves following industry publications, attending conferences and events, participating in online communities, and engaging in continuous learning. Some recommended resources include Data Science Central, KDNuggets, and Medium. Also checkout my bookmarks section (https://www.paulowe.com/bookmarks) for other personal favorites

You can can leverage analytics and AI by using first party data to personalize experiences, automating routine tasks, identifying new business opportunities, and optimizing processes

I am hosting some services on Vercel and others on GCP 🤟

I use ghost as a headless cms. It has a neat content api for this use case https://ghost.org/docs/content-api/

Yes, I maintain a fork here https://github.com/paulowe/paulowe