What’s Next in AI? A Look Into the Future of AI at ODSC West

The field of AI moves lightning-fast. Just two years ago generative AI didn’t exist, now it is practically omnipresent, powering our chatbots, opening new frontiers to business, and empowering people to explore new creative avenues.

As we come to the end of 2024, and our most dynamic conference of the year, it’s time to turn our attention to the future of AI and explore what is on the horizon.

Here are a few of the topics you will have the chance to learn about at ODSC West, October 29–31 in South San Francisco.

RAG on the Edge

As people turn more and more to technology for news, information, and entertainment, improved information retrieval tools become increasingly essential. RAG on the Edge combines information retrieval with generation capabilities to supply more relevant responses to queries, by accessing and processing real-time information from outside sources. In the ODSC West talk “RAG on the Edge” you’ll learn about two real-world research developments that enable high-quality RAG applications on the edge.

RAG on the Edge significantly improves user experience — it’s time to take it out of development and into production.

Neural Operators

The paradigm is shifting in the field of deep learning with renewed interest and attention on neural operators. By taking entire functions as the input, instead of individual data points, we are able to capture the intricacies of relationships between different parts of the function.

But how did we get here? In the ODSC West Talk, “Neural Operators: A New Era of Scientific Computing,” you’ll examine the evolution of AI from neural networks to neural operators and how this development opens a window into the intricate relationships of the natural world.

Multimodal Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)

The world we live in is varied and dynamic, comprising images, text, audio, and more. Multimodal RAG makes it possible to retrieve information from all of these sources and provide a more sophisticated and robust response to queries.

In the ODSC West talk, “Multimodal Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) with Vector Database,” you’ll learn how to improve upon multimodal RAG even further by leveraging contrastive learning and specialized model architectures, we can create a unified vector space for images and text.

Take the user experience of chatbots, search engines, and content generation to the next level with multimodal RAG.

Task-specific LLMs

Large language models have transformed the world over the past two years. They’ve opened new frontiers and possibilities, but to get the most efficient and accurate model for your specific purpose, the next, essential step is fine-tuning.

In the ODSC West talk, “The Future is Finetuned: Training and Serving Task-specific LLMs,” you’ll learn how to overcome many of the challenges of fine-tuning and take your task-specific models into production.

Compound AI Systems

The real world is complex, with diverse inputs and outputs. To address the complex problems of the real world, compound AI systems combine several AI models or techniques to create a system that is greater than the sum of its parts.

In the ODSC West Talk, “Compound AI Systems and the Future of AI Integration,” you’ll learn about compound AI systems’ potential, their challenges, and what you need to build them.

It’s a matter of time before the tools become available to make compound AI systems widespread, and now’s your chance to get ahead of the curve.

Explore the Future of AI at ODSC West

These are just a few of the cutting-edge topics and technologies that will be explored at ODSC West in just a couple of weeks. Get your pass today and place yourself at the leading edge of the field!