The AI Engineer World’s Fair has ended, and over 7,000 folks are heading back to their homes, states, and foreign countries, and mulling the important lessons learned.
This has been the largest gathering of AI engineers since the conference began in a small way three years ago. Its new home in San Francisco’s Moscone West space oddly mirrors Google’s I/O developer conference, which started as a small gathering in Mountain View and three years later moved into the Moscone due to pressure of numbers.
It has been a novel trip for many. I witnessed three developers from overseas gazing into a parked Waymo with wonder, before the AI-powered car moved off to pick up its next passenger. One, rather sweetly, wished it a “bye bye,” and, based on the system’s popularity, the cars are fast becoming a tourist attraction.
But the conference was all about working and learning. While the keynote speeches garnered huge audiences, it was in the workshops that hardcore coding got done. The show hosted over 100 workshops, ranging from straight product talks to capture-the-flag sessions, roundtable discussions, and coding classes to make models more useful.
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