Hugo speaks with Hamel Husain, a machine learning engineer who loves building machine learning infrastructure and tools 👷. Hamel leads and contributes to many popular open-source machine learning projects. He also has extensive experience (20+ years) as a machine learning engineer across various industries, including large tech companies like Airbnb and GitHub. At GitHub, he led CodeSearchNet, a large language model for semantic search that was a precursor to CoPilot. Hamel is the founder of Parlance-Labs, a research and consultancy focused on LLMs.
They talk about generative AI, large language models, the business value they can generate, and how to get started.
They delve into
- Where Hamel is seeing the most business interest in LLMs (spoiler: the answer isn’t only tech);
- Common misconceptions about LLMs;
- The skills you need to work with LLMs and GenAI models;
- Tools and techniques, such as fine-tuning, RAGs, LoRA, hardware, and more!
- Vendor APIs vs OSS models.
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