Open Source AI

This project is accepting submissions on the theme of Open Source AI 🎬🎬

💭💭💭 You can submit an idea for speaking on any of the following topics:

• AI safety/alignment.
• Getting started with your own secure GenAI tool.
• AI projects from small startups - and explaining use cases of problems which AI-tech can solve/has solved at a much better level than the traditional tech; retrospective stories of what actually did work and what didn’t work using AI Tech.
• Accounts of failures and learnings in hindsight where well working old tech was replaced for shiny new AI-tech.
• Use cases of small language models.
• Use of embedding and language models for improving search or recommendations.
• Deep dive account of architectures of different embedding/language models.
• Monitoring and improving RAG in production.
• Conceptual talks that focus on first principles.
• Agentic AI - how to make the agentic systems more autonomous and reliable, and expand it to take care of a domain completely.
• Experiences and examples of collecting better data, cleaning data, doing embedding, and better post training methods such as RL.
• On device local LLMs - limitations, capabilities and future possibilities.
• AI in entertainment/gaming - how games can become interactive and complex with less costs leveraging GenAI.
• Case studies and demos of AI leveraging open datasets from government - https://www.data.gov.in/ - and creating insightful dashboards that keep getting updated.
• How AI can aid governments with public consultations - use cases and demos.
• Costs of running AI from a WhatsApp chatbot to anything; recommendations for hobbyists and startups to optimize credit/cloud spends.
• Hands-on workshops on embedding.
• Hands-on workshops on finetuning LLMs.
• Workshops on how everyday open source tools can be leveraged for analyzing finances/accounts/tax to health data.
• Daily efficiency/automation tricks or SMS analyser or WhatsApp chat analyser/experiments.
• Which LLMs to use when, how to evaluate, and considerations.

☑️ General guidelines for submissions ☑️

We appreciate that many participants create submissions out of a genuine desire to share knowledge with our community, and to contribute in a meaningful way. However, many written submissions fail to capture the attention of reviewers. More often than not this is because the content of the submission does not explain what they intend to communicate with sufficient clarity or detail.

BEFORE you begin writing your submission, please give some thought to the following:

1. Who is the audience for your session? Think about their interests, work roles, challenges, age or experience as you decide this.
2. What problem/pain are you trying to solve (for the audience)? This should be something that is communicated clearly so that they have a sense of your submission’s importance.
3. What will be the scope of your submission? This will help identify the central topic or theme and should describe key areas you plan to cover.
4. How will participants benefit? Think of practical and specific ways in which the audience will be able to apply the knowledge they gain, beyond just general awareness.
5. What is the appropriate format for your submission, given the audience and objectives that you have in mind? Is it better suited as a blog post, a talk, a workshop, demo, etc?

🗣️ Use the above template as a guideline, while ensuring that it is in your own unique and authentic voice. 🗣️

The most successful submissions are those where individuals are able to abstract an actionable insight from a common pain area, enlighten the audience about something new, provide a fresh perspective, and/or demonstrate innovation. 💯💯💯

Here’s a guide to prepare your slides.

✔️ All submissions made here will be reviewed by (practitising) reviewers via online and offline meetings. Reviewers will give feedback on the novelty and validity of the ideas proposed.

🎟️🎟️🎟️ The Fifth Elephant community members have access to participate in the online peer review sessions. Pick a membership to support and participate in The Fifth Elephant’s activities 🎟️🎟️🎟️