Sridhar Raghavan's guest appearances

Sridhar Raghavan

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Listen in as Sridhar Raghavan, a Senior Director of Product Management at Salesforce, shares his journey from working in speech recognition two decades ago to generative AI today. We explore his early memories of playing Pac-Man on his dad's computer in the mid-90s, his break from Salesforce to pursue his own startup, and his strategy to get kids away from digital devices and into reading with AI. Discover how Salesforce is pushing the boundaries of AI-assisted code generation for developers. We discuss parameter sizes, Salesforce's open-sourced 16 billion parameter model, and the importance of customizing and updating language models. Learn about the GPT (Generative Pre-Trained Transformer) acronym and how it is used to create the wiring necessary for a language model to become a learning engine.  Don't miss this fascinating conversation with Sridhar Raghavan! Show Highlights:  Sridhar's strategy to get kids away from digital devices and into reading and how AI can help make reading more fun and engaging. How Salesforce open-sourced a 16 billion parameter model. The importance of customizing and updating language models. What the open source project CodeGen is and how it is used to generate code in six popular programming languages. How Salesforce is enhancing CodeGen to generate Apex code, LWC, and flows.  Links:   Sridhar on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sridharraghavan/  

Listen in as Sridhar Raghavan, a Senior Director of Product Management at Salesforce, shares his journey from working in speech recognition two decades ago to generative AI today. We explore his early memories of playing Pac-Man on his dad's computer in the mid-90s, his break from Salesforce to pursue his own startup, and his strategy to get kids away from digital devices and into reading with AI. Discover how Salesforce is pushing the boundaries of AI-assisted code generation for developers. We discuss parameter sizes, Salesforce's open-sourced 16 billion parameter model, and the importance of customizing and updating language models. Learn about the GPT (Generative Pre-Trained Transformer) acronym and how it is used to create the wiring necessary for a language model to become a learning engine.  Don't miss this fascinating conversation with Sridhar Raghavan! Show Highlights: <ul> <li>Sridhar's strategy to get kids away from digital devices and into reading and how AI can help make reading more fun and engaging.</li> <li>How Salesforce open-sourced a 16 billion parameter model.</li> <li>The importance of customizing and updating language models.</li> <li>What the open source project CodeGen is and how it is used to generate code in six popular programming languages.</li> <li>How Salesforce is enhancing CodeGen to generate Apex code, LWC, and flows.</li> </ul> Links: <ul> <li> Sridhar on LinkedIn: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/sridharraghavan/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/sridharraghavan/</a> </li> </ul>