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William Benton

William Benton is passionate about making it easier for machine learning practitioners to benefit from advanced infrastructure and making it possible for organizations to manage machine learning systems. His recent roles have included defining product strategy and professional services offerings related to data science and machine learning, leading teams of data scientists and engineers, and contributing to many open source communities related to data, ML, and distributed systems. Will was an early advocate of building machine learning systems on Kubernetes and developed and popularized the “intelligent applications” idiom for machine learning systems in the cloud. He has also conducted research and development related to static program analysis, language runtimes, cluster configuration management, and music technology.


Company/Organisation

NVIDIA


Session

06-10
14:00
40min
Large language models are not a paradigm shift
William Benton

Many of the putatively novel challenges of building systems around LLMs are analogous to problems we've solved for conventional ML systems. This talk will show you why the things you already know about building ML systems are still relevant for LLM systems — and where the true novelty of LLMs lies.

Maschinenhaus