Today's exciting meeting was conducted by Bright Morkli. Artificial Intelligence and various applications continue to become centerpiece in the world of technology. He mentioned Artificial Intelligence as an umbrella term for various algorithms about tools that involve some autonomous problem solving capabalities. He explained in more detail what Generative AI and Machine Learning are. One of the popular AI products is the generative AI tool ChatGPT from a company called OpenAI. However other companies are working on other products as well, which is what this presentation explored more about. Some companies mentioned were Meta with their Llama models and Anthropic with Claude models. These respective models address certain challenges better than others in other words they have their strengths and weaknesses. For the same input provided to the various products, the output varies with each model providing more or less detail in its responses. Input provided to these models vary and can be text, audio, images or videos and responses provided in these formats. The next phase of the presentation was a hands-on demo session where Bright asked for various prompts from the audience and fed them into the various AI products and we examined the responses and compared across. The session ended with some resources being shared to these various tools and then a question and answer period which evolved into a discussion on how these could be applied in various work contexts.
