Getting started with AI
Channel: James Devine
Date: 23/04/2024

An introduction to AI workshop I delivered on 22/04/24 via Zoom. We explain briefly some of the general principles that make modern AI systems work, and then do a couple of practical demonstrations. I was running them on my home PC, so they won't be accessible to anyone watching this, but you can always run the examples yourself.

All the AI demos here run on a PC without a GPU (yes... you can do AI without spending $$$ on a shiny Nvidia card), but only for inference (i.e. getting the model to do things, not training). Of course it would run faster with some GPU acceleration, but that isn't the point of this intro. 

Notes from the session and links to the content are here:https://gist.github.com/pingud98/398e25969f0568e9f1579b4afdf42a6e

Thanks to everyone who's graphics/explanations I used to inform the session, in particular:
https://www.cuemath.com/en-eu/ for the vector algebra explanation.
https://www.reddit.com/user/use_excalidraw/ on Reddit for posting the LoRA/Hypernetworks/Dreambooth/Textual Inversion graphic https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/10cgxrx/wellresearched_comparison_of_training_techniques/
And Dan Khanna for your awesome drawing of Optimus Prime, you can check out more of his work here: https://www.deviantart.com/dan-the-artguy/gallery?page=47

If you have any questions about the session drop me a line in the comments and I'll do my best to respond!