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Why Large Language Models are important in AI

In 2020, OpenAI released a Large Language Model (LLM) called GPT3 which has a billion parameters. With a minimal and intuitive user interface which was released to go with GPT3, it caught the imagination and attention of AI communities and researchers all over the world.
One by one, the domain use cases such as co-pilots for coding, creative AI, and other downstream tasks were shown to be fast-tracked by GenerativeAI models and LLMs. As such, there is a wide-ranging interest in large language models and applications around them for various domains and use cases in the AI space. Experiments which aim to find optimal hyperparameters, and those dealing with underfitting and overfitting models are being carried out regularly; more and more barriers are being broken down every day.

The Fifth Elephant 2023 Winter edition will cover topics on the research, engineering, and business aspects of AI, exploring the practical implementation and economic implications of these systems.

Themes

The winter edition of The Fifth Elephant will showcase talks, discussions and demos across generative and multimodal AI, and other classic AI/ML/DL applications on the below themes.

AI engineering Track

Share approaches and case studies covering the following use cases:

Products and platforms using LLMs, GenerativeAI, ML, and Deep Learning techniques, and business formulation around AI engineering.
Conversational AI and search, automatic speech recognition, healthcare, e-commerce, fintech, media and OTT, and other verticals.
Multilingual needs in India in digital products/platforms - features discussions, models training, finetuning, RLHF, RAGs, quantization techniques, dataset curation and augmentations, challenges faced in pipelines, evaluation metrics, future roadmaps, applications such as multilingual voice bots using ASR/STT, text to speech for accessibility.

Data Science operations track

Share case studies and experiential talks on handling the operations for data science such as scaling challenges and fine-tuning challenges, and lessons learned, and best practices for incorporating ethics, safety, and bias.

Demo track

Show demos on features/products which leverage AI and LLM-based APIs and models. It can be from creative AI, generative AI space, and various verticals with relevant use cases.

The Fifth Elephant membership

The December edition will be held in-person. Attendance is open to The Fifth Elephant members only. Pick a membership to attend the in-person conference, and to support The Fifth Elephant’s community activities.

Who will benefit from participating in The Fifth Elephant community:

AI/ML/Data Science Ops engineers who want to learn about state-of-the-art tools and techniques, especially from domains such as health care, e-commerce, automobile, agri-tech and industrial verticals
Data scientists who want a deeper understanding of model deployment/governance.
Architects who are building ML workflows that scale.
Tech founders and CTOs who are building products and platforms that leverage AI, ML and LLMs
Product managers, who want to learn about the process of building AI/ML products.
Directors, VPs and senior tech leadership who are building AI/ML teams.

Sponsorship

Sponsorship slots are open for:

Infrastructure (GPU, CPU and cloud providers) and developer productivity tool makers who want to evangelise their offering to developers and decision-makers.
Companies who want to do tech branding among AI and ML developers.
Venture Capital (VC) firms and investors who want to scan the landscape of innovations and innovators in AI and who want to source leads for investment in the AI and ML space.
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Chatting with Flipkart: How GenAI Revolutionised Online Shopping

Submitted Aug 31, 2023

Abstract

In India’s offline markets, shopping is always about having an interactive dialogue. Yet, as e-commerce platforms evolved, dense UI interfaces clouded and removed conversational experience. With GenAI, we at Flipakrt have revitalized this dialogue. We called it Conversational Commerce

This talk will dive into the technical nuances of the GenAI implementation, from semantic understanding, to its seamless integration with Flipkart’s vast product ecosystem.

Broad outline

Touch upon the various use-cases where GenAI is used in Flipkart.
Dive deep into how LLMs are used to Understand User messages better in Conversational Commerce.
1. Decoding Queries: Use ChatGPT-like LLM models to interpret and act on user queries.
2. Clarifying Ambiguities: Generate questions to gain clarity on ambiguous or vague inputs.
3. Contextual Conversations: Maintain continuity throughout dialogues, identifying when users switch topics.
Deep dive into the importance of Conversation Design and how its used in-conjuction with LLMs to provide a rich chat experience to the user.
The challenges faced, how they were overcome and the road forward.
Finally, our insights on LLMs, how and when to use them, and how local in-house models can augument large deployed models such as ChatGPT.

Target Audience

Data scientists and Software Architects building Chat Assistants for large organisations with diverse use-cases.

Unique Value Proposition

The talk focusses on building large scale production GenAI applications, solving a broad set of problems in Flipkart. We will give a view of how and why a GenAI POC and a Production grade application are different.