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Friends, we're officially sold out for the AI Summer Social, brought to you by unprecedented levels of collaboration across community organizers -- Human Feedback Foundation, Toronto Machine Learning Society (TMLS), AI Tinkerers, and Women in AI & Robotics -- and supported by Drive Capital and Georgian. I look forward to seeing everyone tonight! Sign up for future events and gatherings so you don't miss out next time. Links in comments!

One of the busiest weeks in tech is on! Just this week: - AI Summer Social by Human Feedback Foundation + Toronto Machine Learning Society (TMLS) + Women in AI & Robotics + AI Tinkerers - Toronto Machine Learning Society (TMLS) Summit and Hackathon - Startup Fest !!! - AI Community Conference by Microsoft - Toronto Tech Social at BrainStation Link to RSVP in comments, as we're almost sold out! For everyone registering, you'll get an email with the venue once your RSVP is approved. Thx friends and hope to see you tomorrow night!

😎 🎉 Summer update: In July, AI Tinkerers Toronto is getting social to make the most of Toronto's summer. In partnership with Toronto Machine Learning Society (TMLS) and Women in AI & Robotics, The Human Feedback Foundation / AI Tinkerers Toronto is hosting an AI Summer Social patio night! Grateful for the support from Drive Capital and Georgian. There are no demos at this one and no pitch decks either :) It's a fun summer patio night to celebrate the AI ecosystem and community that's being built, and thank all the sponsors and supporters. We're deeply grateful to Drive Capital, Two Small Fish Ventures, Vector Institute; Shopify and Shopify Ventures; Georgian; and Accenture, for making the April, May, June, and July events possible. RSVP here:

🎉 Thank you to everyone who came out to AI Tinkerers' Toronto June meetup! Loved seeing so many passionate AI builders and tinkerers in one room, we sure brought that community spirit to Accenture, our host and sponsor -- and threw some code on the big screens last night! Here’s a quick recap of the demos: - Alan Wunsche kicked us off with autonomous AI agents demo using the open-source crewAI framework; super fast-evolving space and a glimspe of an agentic future. - Shingai Manjengwa brought the two worlds together with blockchain-based trust in AI decision-making systems talk and demo of a marketplace where trust in how agents collaborate and communicate can be properly permissioned. - Joshua C. took us through his Go implementation of Karpathy’s llm.c, and presented his interactive transformer architecture demo + awesome bonus rant on how the transformer graphic we're so used to seeing is in fact all wrong and needs an update! - Aashni Shah 🎉 did a great demo on using AI for employee reviews from user-inputted data, and fielded questions about how similar HR systems were gamified in the past -- and how her HypeDocs can be different and better. - Arup Saha's demo was on LLMs extracting insights from tabular data, something many of us who worked for large enterprises would be familiar with. SQL still rules, as do relational databases. - Sohaila Ali, a young ambassador for Canada Learning Code Introduced EcoLoop, her latest hackathon project: an AI-powered platform for evaluating new ideas in new ways. - We wrapped up with Jai Mansukhani's OpenSesame, an attempt to detect and mitigate LLM hallucinations, which is of course an important topic of discussion! Tired this morning, but grateful for everyone who came, helped out, and stepped up for the event to work as well as it did. Loved talking with Nick Chen, Addison Cameron-Huff, Shingai Manjengwa, Jake Hirsch-Allen, the many artists !!! we had in the room, and our community partners Women in AI & Robotics! Grateful to our hosts Krish Banerjee and the Accenture team, and convinced we have the world's best MC in Eric Boyd who is certifiably and provably awesome. There was so, so much pizza! And, a proper patio time and afterparty with Jake's LinkedIn crew.. And now.. coffee ☕ AI Tinkerers is a community for practitioners with technical, ML, and entrepreneurial backgrounds who are actively building with foundation models like LLMs and generative AI. We provide a space for collaboration, knowledge sharing, and pushing the boundaries of what’s possible with AI. Want to join us for our next meetup? Subscribe to stay updated: https://lnkd.in/g7rWehD8

We're firmly in the age of replicants. How far down that road are we willing to collectively go?.. AI Michaels will "narrate" the Olympics, while we know there will be countless humans behind the scenes crafting, testing, and deploying these "summaries" -- without human voices and inputs, these types of replicants simply won't work very well, for now. I've read this book when I was little -- Hans Christian Andersen's The Nightingale. I think of it often, lately.

Reason #12089 for why the work we do at Human Feedback Foundation matters: Nathan Lambert's excellent piece on the importance of human feedback in AI training. Key observations: - “All of the open-source tools” for doing at-scale RLHF are largely broken. The engineering stack we, being the folks training open-aligned models, use is extremely fickle and out of touch with the techniques that industry is using" - "If we are serious about making better open models, continuing to go deeper on fewer algorithms and datasets is needed. The dataset work will be how the best academics and open-source members differentiate themselves from the noise." https://lnkd.in/gAkhYny6

PSA: Demo Submissions deadline for AI Tinkerers Toronto Meetup is June 18th EOD. That's soon! Please get on it friends would be great to see a few more submissions. Here are 3 links you'll need: - Demo submission link: https://lnkd.in/gqNnZRae - FAQ on what makes a good demo: https://lnkd.in/gei9nPYw - RSVP to attend. We've only got a few spots left and we do prioritize people who submit demos :) https://lnkd.in/dW2jEUuJ Thx and hope to see you at the AI Tinkerers on June 27th, hosted and supported by Accenture, Drive Capital, and other sponsors TBA. If you wanted a sense of what the AI Tinkerers meetup is like.. we have a video for you! Special thanks to Two Small Fish Ventures for making it possible. https://lnkd.in/gKTPrB9n

Looking forward to Joshua C.’s demo at the AI Tinkerers Toronto meetup in June. Submit your demos friends!! Your deadline is June 18th. If you’d like to come pls RSVP — we’re almost full: https://lnkd.in/gfAxxkcE

Last session of LLM Reads is TODAY, June 11 at 12pm EST. "Is Model Collapse Inevitable? Breaking the Curse of Recursion by Accumulating Real and Synthetic Data" by Matthias Gerstgrasser, Rylan Schaeffer et al, Stanford University. RSVP: https://lnkd.in/gwzYG5p2 Come wrap the season with us for the LLM Reading Group series produced by the Human Feedback Foundation -- and with Joseph Wilson as our best in the world moderator. See you soon!