Large Language Models for Real-World Applications

Explore the world of large language models and their real-world applications in this 35-minute talk by Hemant Jain from Cohere AI. Gain a gentle, highly visual overview of the main intuitions behind these powerful models, suitable for viewers with no prior knowledge of language processing. Discover how machine language understanding and generation have rapidly improved, and learn about practical applications like image captioning, visual question answering, and text generation. Delve into topics such as representation, classification, semantic search, and the distinction between intelligence and general intelligence. Understand how technologies are leveraging large language models and get insights into NLP at Cohere. By the end of this talk, you'll have a solid foundation in the fundamental concepts and real-world potential of large language models across various business domains.

– Introduction
– Overview of Large Language Models
– Image Captioning
– Visual Question Answering
- Image Generation
– OCR + Image Captioning
– Technologies Using Large Language Models
– NLP at Cohere
– Representation
– Classification
– Semantic Search
– Text Generation
– Intelligence vs General Intelligence
– Grounded Language Models