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This week Gerard will be presenting Sleeper Agents: Training Deceptive LLMs that Persist Through Safety Training By Evan Hubinger, Carson Denison, Jesse Mu, Mike Lambert, Meg Tong, Monte MacDiarmid, Tamera Lanham, Daniel M. Ziegler, Tim Maxwell, Newton Cheng, Adam Jermyn, Amanda Askell, Ansh Radhakrishnan, Cem Anil, David Duvenaud, Deep Ganguli, Fazl Barez, Jack Clark, Kamal Ndousse, Kshitij Sachan, Michael Sellitto, Mrinank Sharma, Nova DasSarma, Roger Grosse, Shauna Kravec, Yuntao Bai, Zachary Witten, Marina Favaro, Jan Brauner, Holden Karnofsky, Paul Christiano, Samuel R. Bowman, Logan Graham, Jared Kaplan, Sören Mindermann, Ryan Greenblatt, Buck Shlegeris, Nicholas Schiefer, Ethan Perez.

All events will be hosted on a Google Meets video call. Once a month we also host an in-person event in our London office - watch this space for updates.

All recorded presentations can be found in our YouTube channel (don't forget to subscribe!).

We look forward to seeing you there!

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Description: Join us for a power-packed night of learning, sharing, and networking at AI Dev Day - New York. We are excited to bring the AI developer community together to learn and discuss the latest trends, practical experiences, and best practices in the field of AI, LLMs, generative AI, and machine learning.

In addition to the tech talks, there will be plenty of opportunities to network with AI developers, live demos, AI community showcases, panel discussion, and career opportunities.

Agenda : - 5:30pm\~6:30pm: Checkin\, food/drink and networking - 6:30pm\~8:00pm: keynotes\, tech talks\, and panel - 8:00pm: Q&A\, Open discussion and mixer

Tech Talk 1: Real Time Recommendations with Vector Search Speaker: Aaron Ploetz @Datastax Abstract: Are you building or do you support an e-commerce website? If so, then this session is for you! Worldwide digital sales in 2021 eclipsed five trillion dollars (USD). Most consumers will leave a web page or a mobile app if it takes longer than a few seconds to load. Businesses that want to compete, need a high performing e-commerce website. In this session, we will cover how to architect a simple and high-performing product recommendation service using Vector Search and generative AI. Join us and learn how to leverage the following tech to your advantage: Java Spring Boot - OAuth - Distributed databases (Cassandra/AstraDB) - Vector Search - Cloud Native Streaming (Pulsar)

Tech Talk 2: Best practices and learnings in GenAI applications Speaker: Ram Seshadri @Google Abstract: As data scientists and ML engineers, we often dedicate countless hours to fine-tuning hyperparameters of complex algorithms, particularly neural networks, in pursuit of optimal model performance. This talk will introduce a set of powerful open-source libraries, developed by the speaker, that enable a similar level of optimization for your data itself. Discover the capabilities of pandas-dq, featurewiz, Sulo model class, and lazytransform libraries as they empower you to enhance data quality, augment your data through feature engineering, and streamline feature selection for tabular datasets, including time series data.

Tech Talk 3: Beyond Q&A: Using LLM’s for real-time, personalized notifications Speaker: Ryan Michael, VP of Engineering @Kaskada Abstract: What we learned building BeepGPT: An AI bot that reads your Slack so you don’t have to. Are you tired of seeing Gen AI demos of yet another chat bot? Are you looking for the interesting applications of this technology that’s supposed to change everything? Generative AI can do more than answer questions - it can understand what’s happening in the world in real-time, and use that understanding to creatively make our lives better. But to do so, Generative AI apps need access to real-time information, which has traditionally been difficult to deal with. Connecting AI to real-time data is the problem that the OSS Kakada project (which, in full disclosure, I co-created) aims to solve. To demonstrate how the right tools make this type of application easy, we built BeepGPT - an AI bot that reads your Slack so you don’t have to. In this presentation we’ll walk you through our process and share some of the lessons we learned along the way.

Speakers/Topics: Stay tuned for more topics update. If you have a keen interest in speaking to our community, we invite you to submit topics for consideration: Submit Topics

Sponsors: We are actively seeking sponsors to support our community. There are various ways to contribute, whether it's by offering venue spaces, providing refreshments, or becoming a cash sponsor. In return, sponsors will have the chance to speak at our meetups, receive prominent recognition as sponsors, and gain exposure through post-event emails sent to our extensive membership base of 20,000+ local or 300K+ developers worldwide.

Community on Slack - Event chat: chat and connect with speakers and attendees - Sharing blogs\, events\, job openings\, projects collaborations Join Slack (search and join the #newyork channel)

Register on the event website to receive joining link: https://www.aicamp.ai/event/eventdetails/W2023062009

Description: Welcome to the weekly AI/ML/Data virtual meetup, which you can join from anywhere around the world. Join us for deep dive tech talks on AI/ML/Data, networking with speakers&peer developers, and win lucky draw prizes.

Tech Talk: Declarative Reasoning with Timelines: The Next Step in Event Processing Speaker: Ryan Michael, VP of Engineering @Datastax Abstract: At the heart of modern data processing lies events. Events describe the roughest, most complete picture available of what has happened in the world, and practically every form of data processing ultimately begins with events. While the power of event processing has increased since the emergence of streaming data processing, current systems are still difficult to use when working on problems that deal with time and order, such as predictive AI/ML. Handling these problems requires a new kind of query language - a way to declaratively reason about events over time. In this talk, we introduce the concept of timelines. Timelines are an intuitive abstraction for reasoning about temporal values. They support a broad range of useful operations which can be efficiently computed at scale. We will demonstrate the power and differentiation of timelines: - How timelines allow declarative queries over events and time in a simple and intuitive manner - Why timelines are ideal for applications such as behavioral predictions\, trend analysis\, and forecasting\, and how existing solutions such as streaming SQL fall short. - How to execute timeline based queries using the open-source Kaskada event-processing engine.

Community on Slack - Event chat: chat and connect with speakers and attendees - Sharing blogs\, events\, job openings\, projects collaborations Join Slack (search and join the #virtualevents channel)

Contact us to submit topics and/or sponsor the meetup on venue/food/swags/prizes. https://forms.gle/JkMt91CZRtoJBSFUA

Pre-register on the designated event website to receive joining link: https://www.aicamp.ai/event/eventdetails/W2023062009

Description: Welcome to the weekly AI/ML/Data virtual meetup, which you can join from anywhere around the world. Join us for deep dive tech talks on AI/ML/Data, networking with speakers&peer developers, and win lucky draw prizes.

Tech Talks

• Declarative Reasoning with Timelines, by Ryan Michael, VP of Engineering @Datastax

Community on Slack - Event chat: chat and connect with speakers and attendees - Sharing blogs\, events\, job openings\, projects collaborations Join Slack (search and join the #virtualevents channel)

Contact us to submit topics and/or sponsor the meetup on venue/food/swags/prizes. https://forms.gle/JkMt91CZRtoJBSFUA

Pre-register on the designated event website to receive joining link: https://www.aicamp.ai/event/eventdetails/W2023062009

Description: Welcome to the weekly AI/ML/Data virtual meetup, which you can join from anywhere around the world. Join us for deep dive tech talks on AI/ML/Data, networking with speakers&peer developers, and win lucky draw prizes.

Tech Talks

• Declarative Reasoning with Timelines, by Ryan Michael, VP of Engineering @Datastax

Community on Slack - Event chat: chat and connect with speakers and attendees - Sharing blogs\, events\, job openings\, projects collaborations Join Slack (search and join the #virtualevents channel)

Contact us to submit topics and/or sponsor the meetup on venue/food/swags/prizes. https://forms.gle/JkMt91CZRtoJBSFUA

CRYSTAL REPORTS® 2008 OFFICIAL GUIDE Whether you’re a DBA, data warehousing or business intelligence professional, Every significant enhancement introduced in Crystal Reports 2008 is covered, including its new visualization options and more robust Web services capabilities. The book concludes by showing how to use Crystal Reports’ powerful .NET and Java SDKs to customize and extend enterprise reporting in virtually unlimited ways. • Learn hands-on, through step-by-step examples and exercises–and discover tips and tricks proven in real-world enterprise environments • Master new Crystal Reports 2008 features, including interactive report viewing, Xcelsius dashboarding, Flex, and Flash integration, Report Designer improvements, report bursting, and more • Publish professional-quality reports against virtually any data source, including relational and OLAP databases, Universes, SAP, PeopleSoft, JavaBeans, .NET/COM objects, XML, and more • Discover advanced visualization techniques using Xcelsius, charts, and maps • Learn methods for distributing reports and integrating content into other applications • Learn about the latest reporting addition to the Business Objects family–Xcelsius and begin creating dynamic and interactive dashboards NEIL FITZGERALD has spent several years working at Business Objects and with one of Business Objects’ largest providers of custom BI and enterprise reporting solutions. BOB COATES currently works as a Sales Consultant for Business Objects, an SAP company, where he has been employed for more than eleven years. RYAN GOODMAN is the founder of Centigon Solutions, Inc., and remains one of the top Xcelsius experts and evangelists in the world. MICHAEL VOLOSHKO is a senior presales consultant for the financial services team at Business Objects. ON THE WEB Find all this and more at informit.com/sams: • Java and .NET sample reports and code samples for all examples in the book • Bonus chapters, tips, tricks, and links to great reporting resources CATEGORY: Database COVERS: Crystal Reports 2008, Crystal Reports Server 2008, Crystal Reports Viewer, crystalreports.com, Xcelsius 2008 USER LEVEL: Beginning–Intermediate informit.com/sams