The State of AI: Innovations, Applications and Impacts in Planning For the last 2 years, AI has been one of the trends recommended in APA’s Trend Report for planners to act and prepare for. The report notes that while the advancements in Gen AI have the potential to greatly enhance public services, there are concerns […]
This week we’ll dive into our latest presentation, OpenHands Agents for Developing Code, where we’ll explore the full CodeAgent lifecycle—from architecture and history to hands-on workflows and GitHub Actions integration. The frameworks and tools covered include: CodeAgent Architecture & Microservices Code Generation Agent Test Generation Agent Code Review Agent Custom Workflows via .openhands.yaml GitHub Actions […]
This month we are looking at Google’s recent iteration on their Prompt Engineering guide as a vehicle to discuss the latest advancements in the field of prompting models. We will cover the core material of the paper and discuss the sort of the things that are left out of the current guidance, and potential resources […]
This “Introduction to AI” workshop by Deloitte provides a clear and basic overview of artificial intelligence for professionals. This session explains key AI concepts like machine learning, natural language processing, and computer vision, using real-world examples from industries such as healthcare, finance, and transportation. Participants will learn about the ethical issues and challenges of AI, […]
This week we’ll walk through an example of using the Cline plugin for Visual Studio Code connected through OpenRouter. It’s an agent that can help you as you work, directly from Visual Studio Code – doing much more than just generating code. After working directly with the agent for development, we’ll take a look at setting […]
This week we’ll have several people in the room with various tools attempting to “Vibe Code” our transcription service. We’ll pass screen share around to see each person’s approach and do some evaluation of the output. This should be interesting to compare with our existing transcription service that was written entirely by hand. Here are […]
Join us virtually this Wednesday at 6pm to continue our monthly Paper Review series! This month, we’re diving into the critical topic of identity management for autonomous AI systems by reviewing the recent paper, “A Novel Zero-Trust Identity Framework for Agentic AI: Decentralized Authentication and Fine-Grained Access Control.” As AI agents become more autonomous, traditional […]
This week we’ll have Tom Plunkett as our guest speaker! His talk will describe how to study for NVIDIA’s AI certification exams. Specifically, the NVIDIA-Certified Associate: Generative AI and LLMs, Multimodal Generative AI, and AI Infrastructure and Operations. You’ll find a link to these below. From NVIDIA: “Whether you’re a seasoned professional or just starting your journey […]
Join us for our summer social! This time we’ll be inside at the private room in Yellowhammer Brewing. There is good pizza available from Earth and Stone Pizza. We’ll also have part of the patio to ourselves if you miss the Alabama heat. The private room was only available for Monday, so hopefully that doesn’t throw anyone […]
