DiscoverGetting Simple#71: Alex O'Connor — Transformers, Generative AI, and the Deep Learning Revolution
#71: Alex O'Connor — Transformers, Generative AI, and the Deep Learning Revolution

#71: Alex O'Connor — Transformers, Generative AI, and the Deep Learning Revolution

Update: 2023-04-26
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Alex O'Connor — Transformers, Generative AI, and the Deep Learning Revolution

Alex O’Connor—researcher and ML manager—on the latest trends of generative AI. Language and image models, prompt engineering, the latent space, fine-tuning, tokenization, textual inversion, adversarial attacks, and more.





Alex O’Connor got his PhD in Computer Science from Trinity College, Dublin. He was a postdoctoral researcher and funded investigator for the ADAPT Centre for digital content, at both TCD and later DCU. In 2017, he joined Pivotus, a Fintech startup, as Director of Research. Alex has been Sr Manager for Data Science & Machine Learning at Autodesk for the past few years, leading a team that delivers machine learning for e-commerce, including personalization and natural language processing.





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  • “None of these models can read.”

  • “Art in the future may not be good, but it will be prompt.” Mastodon


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#71: Alex O'Connor — Transformers, Generative AI, and the Deep Learning Revolution

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