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SUMMARY:Community Workshop | Small is beautiful — using\, adapting\, and
  building small language models.
LOCATION:Online
DESCRIPTION:This is a hands-on workshop to setup\, use and adapt small lan
 guage models (SLM) running locally on your laptop. \n\nThis is a hands-on 
 workshop to setup\, use and adapt small language models (SLM) running loca
 lly on your laptop. Check this out for an overview on what a SLM is: https
 ://huggingface.co/blog/jjokah/small-language-model.\nThe goals of this wor
 khop is not only technical but much more importantly:\n- to raise awarenes
 s on alternatives to the usual online AI solutions\n- to give agency and c
 hoices back to users of AI\, for fitting use cases at least\, and \n- to d
 iscuss how such alternatives align with the Code of Conduct Democratic AI\
 n\nLocal-first SLM may also be a better fit when it comes to vounteer proj
 ects for nonprofits\, where we often cannot afford paying online subscript
 ions.\n\nToo good to be true? Join this beginner-friendly workshop to try 
 SLM out for yourself!  If you have NEVER heard of SLM\, Llama.cpp\, Ollama
 \, LMStudio\, llamafile and RAG before\, this workshop is for you.  On the
  other hand if you already have some experience on SLM and would like to d
 ive deeper with us\, kindly stay tuned for the follow-up\, more advanced w
 orkshop.\n\nOur rundown:\n- Motivation and goals\n- What are small languag
 e models (SLM)\n- Finding and setting up a SLM on your laptop\n- Using SLM
  with command line interfaces (CLI)\n- Using SLM with graphical user inter
 faces (GUI)\n- Using SLM from the Python programming language\n- Adapting 
 an existing SLM with private or the latest info\n- Open exchange on pros\,
  cons and follow-up ideas\n\nSylvi and Chris will be leading this workshop
 . Sylvi is an economist gone data scientist\, currently serves on the Boar
 d of CorrelAid and is interested in engraining the code of conduct of demo
 cratic AI (https://demokratische-ki.de/) into CorrelAid’s structure.  Ch
 ris is one of CorrelAid's Local Chapter Heads in Cologne\, a career IT per
 son with over 30 years experience working worldwide.\n\nPlease note the fo
 llowings:\n- This event will be conducted in English.\n- This event follow
 s the CorrelAid Code of Conduct.\n- There will be NO recording of the sess
 ion.  \n- AI bots for transcription are not allowed.\n- Participants are l
 imited to 15.\n\nRegistration: https://pretix.eu/correlaid/community-ws/49
 34058/\n\nView more at: https://correlaid.org/veranstaltungen/community_ws
 _SLM_may
URL;VALUE=URI:https://correlaid.org/veranstaltungen/community_ws_SLM_may
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