In June 2022, a story hit international news that a Google engineer believed that one of their large language models had achieved sentience. Blake Lemoine was testing Google's conversational LLM LaMDA (the model that went on to power the original …
Over the past two years, since the initial release of ChatGPT in November 2022, we've been in a hype cycle around large language models, or LLMs. Due to the very human "feeling" of LLM outputs, a lot of people have been convinced that these models …
I’ve been hearing positive things about NDC Oslo for quite some time. I enviously listened to my developer friends’ stories about the incredible talks, parties, swag, and of course, the endless food. So, you can imagine how happy I was to have a talk …
This year, I attended Big Data LDN for the first time as part of the JetBrains booth team, where we were representing the Datalore, DataSpell and DataGrip teams. Seeing as entry is free, it attracts a huge number of attendees. This year was the …
In-person conferences are finally getting back into full swing this year. Fortunately, four of the conferences I was accepted to speak at lined up back-to-back in late September. Even better, they were all in Europe! My first stop was PyCon UK in …
