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Squish Meets Structure: Designing with Language Models

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Video, slides, and transcript from my talk at Smashing Conference in Freiburg Germany, September 4th-5th, 2023. Video, slides, and transcript from my talk at Smashing Conference in Freiburg Germany, September 4th-5th, 2023. Talk runs from 0:00 - 34:30, Q&A from 34:30 - end This talk is going to be about designing products with language models. Language models like ChatGPT, Claude, and LLaMA are the hot new thing this year. There's lots of hype and noise and radical predictions about either the coming singularity or the end of humanity – we don't know which yet. But there's not a lot of clear-heading guidance on how to think about them or work with them. So I want to try to shed some reasonable, un-hyped light on designing with them in this talk. This talk is going to be about designing products with language models. Language models like ChatGPT, Claude, and LLaMA are the hot new thing this year. There's lots of hype and noise and radical predictions about either the coming singularit

This talk is about designing products with language models – how to think about models, understanding how vectors and embeddings work, and some priciples for designing interfaces and systems that don’t drown your users in cognitive overload. First given online for Smashing Conference AI back in mid- 2023 3ya , and then in person in Freiberg and Antwerp. Here’s some snaps from the Freiberg edition: The front entrance of the conference – Source: Fabian Kaegy Crowd shot with one of my slides – Source: Marc Thiele Video Recording Talk runs from 0:00 - 34:30, Q&A from 34:30 - end Slides and Transcr

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