Welcome to another episode of the What's AI Podcast, where we dive deep into the world of artificial intelligence and its various applications. In this episode, we have a special guest, Luis Serrano, an AI scientist, YouTuber, and author, known for his popular YouTube channel, Serrano.Academy, and his book, "Grokking Machine Learning." Currently, he is working at Cohere, where he is involved in building a groundbreaking resource called LLM University.
Watch the episode (and more videos) on YouTube: https://youtu.be/NoyQKKQdI0M
References:
► Cohere's LLM U: https://docs.cohere.com/docs/llmu
► Cohere's Discord community for LLM U: https://discord.gg/co-mmunity
► Luis' YouTube: @SerranoAcademy
►Twitter: https://twitter.com/Whats_AI
►My Newsletter (A new AI application explained weekly to your emails!): https://www.louisbouchard.ai/newsletter/
►Support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/whatsai
►Join Our AI Discord: https://discord.gg/learnaitogether
00:06 Intro
00:33 Introduction and Background of Luis Serrano
02:17 Why did Luis pursue LLM?
02:59 Requirements to learn NLP and AI
05:32 Is a Ph.D. worth it?
07:56 Is learning fully online good or not?
09:50 What is a LLM?
13:00 Why learn AI if you only want to use it?
14:50 Practical use case of LLMs
16:12 Build application using Cohere
19:10 Base skills to use LLMs
19:10 Programming language to use LLMs
25:27 Prompting
29:23 Optimism about Prompt Engineering
29:42 Be a Better Prompt Engineer
31:32 Advice for non-AI people
35:17 Use AI without prior coding knowledge
37:32 Is there a job that does not require learning AI?
40:43 Overview of LLM University
45:07 LLM University is beginner friendly
47:40 Tips to explain better
58:10 Variety in AI learners
01:00:43 Personal project of Luis Serrano
