Practical GenAI and LLM with Tim Rohrbaugh

In this episode Allan and Drew consult Tim Rohrbaugh, who has done quite a lot of research and work on the practical applications, deployment, use cases and limits of GenAI and LLM.

• Flavors and incarnations of AI - GenAI, Expert Systems, ML...
• Biomimicry and Allan's weird sea cucumber references
• Practical LLM deployment - Tim's maxims
• Offline or online? Open or proprietary models?
• Precision, accuracy, asking the right questions in the first place
• Your smartest employee as your limiting factor
• Probabilistic vs. deterministic outcomes
• Hallucinations - not necessarily a negative term
• How long before we get the person out of the loop?
• The actual skills required to be a "GenAI engineer"
• Getting started at home - hardware and models
• Fabric AI and patterns

It's a great show and you will most definitely learn a lot! Thank you Tim, thank you, listeners! Y'all be good now!