At the recent ODSC East conference, Daniel got a chance to sit down with Erin Mikail Staples to discuss the process of gathering human feedback and creating an instruction tuned Large Language Models (LLM). They also chatted about the importance of open data and practical tooling for data annotation and fine-tuning. Do you want to create your own custom generative AI models? This is the episode for you!

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Featuring:

• Erin Mikail Staples – Mastodon, X
• Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X

Show Notes:

• Label Studio
• Slides from Erin’s recent PyData talk on RLHF

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