DevFest2024-Taking a walk in the Model Garden

In this session, I will give a brief introduction to the current Generative AI Landscape, what the current trends are and how Gemini helps users in the day-to-day, what are the salient features of Google Cloud Platform, and how users can get started with Generative AI using Vertex AI on GCP. This talk will be conducted standalone with a small demo at the end.
https://bit.ly/modelgarden-philly-colab
Speaker: Suvaditya Mukherjee

Transcript

1. Taking a walk in the Model Garden Because AI gardens >>> Real gardens, right? Right? Suvaditya Mukherjee ML GDE | GDG MAD @halcyonrayes GDG DevFest Philadelphia, 󰑔 January 18th, 2025
2. $whoami Google Developer Expert (ML - TensorFlow Core/Keras) ML Assistant @ USC School of Cinematic Arts ML Research @ USC Institute of Creative Technologies
3. Things to cover today What is AI? What is Generative AI? Why is Generative AI? Why does it benefit you as a student? What is Vertex AI? Walking into the Model Garden Riding the Swings in the Garden Google Maps Location for bigger Gardens 0 50 75 25
4. “AI, or Artificial Intelligence, refers to the simulation of human intelligence in machines or computer systems.” ChatGPT, circa. 2025
5. Making Computers perform tasks like these as quickly as humans do Source: Towards Data Science
6. Things to cover today What is AI? What is Generative AI? Why is Generative AI? Why does it benefit you? What is Vertex AI? Walking into the Model Garden Riding the Swings in the Garden Google Maps Location for bigger Gardens 0 50 75 25
7. It’s literally in the name. - Generate content of a certain modality like Text, Image, Video, Audio, etc. - Different types like LLMs for Text and LDMs for Images What is Generative AI?
8. Of course, you want to generate stuff like this too?
9. Things to cover today What is AI? What is Generative AI? Why is Generative AI? Why does it benefit you as a student? What is Vertex AI? Walking into the Model Garden Riding the Swings in the Garden Google Maps Location for bigger Gardens 0 50 75 25
10. Why is Generative AI? Popular? Useful? Hated? • Popular - Ease of use with tons of applications and documentation available, • Useful - Varied applications, low barrier of entry • Hated - Different levels of threat perception for differing levels of expertise
11. Good uses v/s Harmful uses Same debate as data versus data (you read it differently, didn’t you?) - AI Risk or X-Risk - Good uses - Business Chatbots, Portrait Generation, Summarizing information - Bad uses - Fake videos (DeepFake), Disinformation, and more
12. Things to cover today What is AI? What is Generative AI? Why is Generative AI? Why does it benefit you as a student? What is Vertex AI? Walking into the Model Garden Riding the Swings in the Garden Google Maps Location for bigger Gardens 0 50 75 25
13. Why does it benefit you? Depends on what you need it for. If you are a student • Use it to make awesome projects • Active area of research! • Learn, experiment, and play around with it! If you are a professional • Apply it to your business use-cases • Solve large, human-scale problems • Cut down on costs
14. Things to cover today What is AI? What is Generative AI? Why is Generative AI? Why does it benefit you as a student? What is Vertex AI? Walking into the Model Garden Riding the Swings in the Garden Google Maps Location for bigger Gardens 0 50 75 25
15. Vertex AI Overview Unified development and deployment platform for data science, machine learning, and generative AI
17. Google Cloud Generative AI Empower enterprises to innovate faster with enterprise-ready generative AI APIs | SDK | Libraries AI Platform AI Notebooks Experiment | Train | Deploy Prompt | Tune | Distill | Extend ML Ops | RAI & Eval Tooling Google Cloud Infrastructure (GPU/TPU) | Google Data Cloud Model Garden Build Your Own Gen AI powered Agents AI Solutions Doc AI Contact Center AI Translation Hub Risk AI User Interfaces: Voice | UI Widgets | Multimodal | … Generative AI Studio Search & Conversation Data Connectors Extensions Orchestrate Grounding Enterprise Readiness NTK Google Models PaLM, Codey, Imagen, Chirp, Embeddings… Open Source Models LLaMA 2, Falcon, Stable Diffusion… Partner Models Claude 2,… Broad Ecosystem of Partners Search Retrieve | Summarize | Generate Conversation Answer | Generate | Transact … Model Garden Vertex AI Data Governance Data Privacy Responsible AI Security & Compliance
18. Things to cover today What is AI? What is Generative AI? Why is Generative AI? Why does it benefit you as a student? What is Vertex AI? Walking into the Model Garden Riding the Swings in the Garden Google Maps Location for bigger Gardens 0 50 75 25
19. Vertex AI Model Garden 01 One stop shop 02 Use Foundation Models directly 03 Tune Foundation Models 04 Customize popular open source models 05 API access to task-specific solutions One place to launch various enterprise user journeys
20. Vertex AI Pre-Trained Models Vision Language Conversation Vision Video Intelligence AutoML Vision AutoML Video Intelligence Translation Natural Language AutoML Natural Language AutoML Translation Speech-to-Text Dialogflow Text-to-Speech Best in class tools allowing customers to leverage Google’s leadership in AI to solve common problems Structured data Fleet Routing API AutoML Tables Vertex AI Forecast Time Series Insights API TabNet Speaker ID
21. SaaS Applications IoT Devices Social Media Corporate and 3rd Systems Geospatial Decision Making App Development SaaS Applications Exception Management Operational Intelligence Data Monetization Data engineers Clean, useful data Data scientists Models that work Developers Intelligent apps Data analysts Query and analyze ML engineers Integrated intelligence Consumers Value Business users Insights Everywhere E-Commerce Google’s Data Cloud ANY USER ANY DATA ANY INNOVATION ANY WORKLOAD DATA ENGINEERING DATA ANALYSIS MODEL DEVELOPMENT ML ENGINEERING INSIGHTS ACTIVATION Dataproc Vertex AI Vertex AI Vertex AI BigQuery Cloud Composer Looker Cloud Run Vertex AI Pipelines Dataflow An Integrated Data ⇒ Value Journey
22. Things to cover today What is AI? What is Generative AI? Why is Generative AI? Why does it benefit you as a student? What is Vertex AI? Walking into the Model Garden Riding the Swings in the Garden Google Maps Location for bigger Gardens 0 50 75 25
23. Try Google Cloud for Free! Visit trygcp.dev/e/<event-id> to sign up with your Google Account and get access to the Free Tier. Learn about Free Tier products at cloud.google.com/free and more!
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26. Things to cover today What is AI? What is Generative AI? Why is Generative AI? Why does it benefit you as a student? What is Vertex AI? Walking into the Model Garden Riding the Swings in the Garden Google Maps Location for bigger Gardens 0 50 75 25
27. Proprietary + Confidential Learn more about Generative AI at goo.gle/generativeai
28. Things to cover today What is AI? What is Generative AI? Why is Generative AI? Why does it benefit you as a student? What is Vertex AI? Walking into the Model Garden Riding the Swings in the Garden Google Maps Location for bigger Gardens 0 50 75 25
29. Thank you! Suvaditya Mukherjee ML GDE | GDG MAD @halcyonrayes Slides^ < Colab