Exploring LLMs and AI Education with Luis Serrano - The What's AI Episode Podcast 15

What's AI Podcast by Louis-François Bouchard

Welcome to another episode of the What's AI Podcast, where we dive deep into the world of artificial intelligence and its various applications. In this episode, we have a special guest, Luis Serrano, an AI scientist, YouTuber, and author, known for his popular YouTube channel, Serrano.Academy, and his book, "Grokking Machine Learning." Currently, he is working at Cohere, where he is involved in building a groundbreaking resource called LLM University.

Watch the episode (and more videos) on YouTube: https://youtu.be/NoyQKKQdI0M

References:

► Cohere's LLM U: https://docs.cohere.com/docs/llmu

► Cohere's Discord community for LLM U: https://discord.gg/co-mmunity

► Luis' YouTube: ⁠ @SerranoAcademy ⁠

►Twitter: https://twitter.com/Whats_AI

►My Newsletter (A new AI application explained weekly to your emails!): https://www.louisbouchard.ai/newsletter/

►Support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/whatsai

►Join Our AI Discord: https://discord.gg/learnaitogether

00:06 Intro

00:33 Introduction and Background of Luis Serrano

02:17 Why did Luis pursue LLM?

02:59 Requirements to learn NLP and AI

05:32 Is a Ph.D. worth it?

07:56 Is learning fully online good or not?

09:50 What is a LLM?

13:00 Why learn AI if you only want to use it?

14:50 Practical use case of LLMs

16:12 Build application using Cohere

19:10 Base skills to use LLMs

19:10 Programming language to use LLMs

25:27 Prompting

29:23 Optimism about Prompt Engineering

29:42 Be a Better Prompt Engineer

31:32 Advice for non-AI people

35:17 Use AI without prior coding knowledge

37:32 Is there a job that does not require learning AI?

40:43 Overview of LLM University

45:07 LLM University is beginner friendly

47:40 Tips to explain better

58:10 Variety in AI learners

01:00:43 Personal project of Luis Serrano