Recapping the AI, Machine Learning and Computer Meetup — August 29, 2024

The meetup aimed to bring together communities of data scientists, machine learning engineers, and open source enthusiasts to share and expand their knowledge of AI and complementary technologies. The event featured presentations on various topics such as agentic RAG in 2024, accelerating multimodal RAG pipelines with NVIDIA and Open-Source Integrations, and using embeddings for robust OCR document search and cross-modal retrieval. The meetup also highlighted the importance of charitable giving, donating $200 to Heart to Heart International, an organization that ensures quality care is provided equitably in medically under-resourced communities and disaster situations. Upcoming meetups are scheduled, including a discussion on reducing hallucinations in chatGPT and similar AI systems, data-centric AI competition, and sensor data in RAG. The meetup is sponsored by Voxel51, the company behind the open-source FiftyOne computer vision toolset, which enables data science teams to improve the performance of their computer vision models.