Data Exchange Podcast (Episode 200): Christopher Nguyen of Aitomatic

Christopher Nguyen is CEO and Co-founder of Aitomatic, a startup that builds virtual advisors tailored with domain-specific expertise, primarily catering to industrial AI applications.
**Sections** ↓
Companies have identified many potential uses cases for LLMs and Generative AI - 00:01:25
LLMs have expanded the number of personas involved in AI initiatives - 00:05:30
Teams realize they need to use custom foundation models - 00:07:37
The concept of Hallucination has entered the mainstream - 00:11:18
Retrieval-augmented Generation is a natural starting point for many teams - 00:13:27
Foundation Models and RAG require a new set of data engineering and data management tools - 00:16:10
There’s a lot of interest in Fine Tuning LLMs - 00:21:50
Knowing when and how to use fine tuning requires experimentation - 00:24:33
We need new tools for optimizing, deploying, and maintaining large models - 00:25:55
We are in the very early stages of understanding how to build Generative AI applications. - 00:31:47
AI teams need to document the steps they are taking to manage risks associated with Generative AI models - 00:37:35
Generative AI will redefine and eliminate some jobs, but it will also pave the way for new roles - 00:43:16

[kevon]

Excellent discussion. Totally agree it’s a revolution in communication. Also creation.

[R_Sambasivam]

Very good conversation. Like every other technology, AI requires efforts to make it work. One can’t simply assume that it is like flicking a switch. This realisation is important for us to begin to realise the value at scale. Else there will be disappointment.