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  • LLMs In Practice Queens 1.15 SLT Wednesday 05-02-2025 - 14:00 until Wednesday 05-02-2025 - 16:00

LLMs In Practice

LLMs are here to stay. Tools such as ChatGPT and Claude have become commonplace across a range of industries and for personal use, owing to their powerful multi-modal capabilities and ease of use on web UIs. However, in practice, using LLMs isn’t quite as easy as chatting on OpenAI.com - there are many dials and knobs to turn behind the scenes that are hidden by the front-end website. There are also many methods that can improve performance on a range of tasks that are not available on the website.

This workshop aims to give a technical introduction into how LLMs are used in industry. I will provide an introduction to LLMs, and we will build a real application, inspired by work I did for the UK government. 

We will cover: 

  • LLM basics and parameters
  • Embeddings
  • Machine translation and related metrics 
  • APIs 
  • Prompt engineering
  • Few-shot prompting
  • Fine-tuning

This workshop will be useful for people looking for an introduction to real-world AI, but familiarity with Python is required as we will be doing code-along exercises. We will also be using real API credits to give you experience that is otherwise costly to get and that is genuinely used in the real world.
 

Venue/Timing

Venue : Queens 1.15 SLT

Type: Free, Society Events, Workshops

Start Date: Wednesday 05-02-2025 - 14:00

End date: Wednesday 05-02-2025 - 16:00

Capacity: 70

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