SALI: Seminars for the Agency LLM Initiative
Overview
In partnership with Living Local 413 and its Agency LLM Initiative (ALI), DISC introduces SALI, Seminars for ALI. By teaching 10 enduring truths of LLMs like ChatGPT, this highly interactive 2-hour seminar delivers a conceptual understanding that enables selecting your most cost-effective deployments. SALI gives take-home guides covering essential how-tos, yet you’ll learn why such nuts and bolts guidance is secondary to grasping the deep principles underlying LLM strengths and weaknesses.
If interested, please write “SALI” in the message box of this contact form (you can add any other remarks there too). Once a group is assembled, we’ll email date and time options for the next session, which can be attended either in a Western Massachusetts location or via interactive live video.
Why Attend?
AI chipmaker Nvidia hit 8x in 2 years to become the world’s third most valuable company–beating Google, Amazon, and FaceBook–because executives are actually buying AI/LLM tech now. Sure, stock markets get frothy, but like the internet’s first years, business adoption rises steadily and irrespective of swings in stock prices and blogosphere sentiment.
This rising LLM tide lifts all who sail the LLM seas.
Unlike previous tech revolutions, Large Language Models (LLMs) work by your verbal commands. This verbal interface enables small businesses to benefit now, rather than wait for Fortune 500s’ table scraps.
What Does SALI Deliver?
In 4 parts, each SALI sessions enables you to use LLMs to increase profit by lowering costs or increasing profit or both:
- Operational understanding of LLM tech. For example, you’ll learn how LLMs work like human brains but with a couple of crucial differences, so that your people skills translate to LLM success.
- ROI analysis by which you foresee profit from various levels of LLM deployment.
- Group wisdom via lively discussion exemplifying the 10 truths. This mutual uplifting continues through a forum in Living Local’s 413online.com community where members share tips and insights.
- Take-home resources for quickly setting up your own LLM-powered guru guiding step-by-step usage.
LLMs will evolve, but the fundamentals covered by SALI align with LLMs’ foundational tech, so will remain sound until the world’s businesses abandon the hundreds of billions USD invested in Nvidia chips–at least 5 years. SALI explains why human managers of LLMs will produce the winning firms.
Who
Your presenters have decades of relevant experience.
Rob Laporte, CEO of DISC, proved his talent for language tech like LLMs by launching DISC as a search marketing firm before Google existed. DISC has used AI and LLMs for years.
Bill Cole, Founder of Living Local 413 and Tiger Web Design, has used tech and social savvy to build strong, sustainable businesses and communities that enhance the quality of life for everyone. He believes that by investing in our local economies, we can create a brighter future for our communities and our world.
You and your peers: During the session’s concluding discussion, attendees share tips, insights, and aspirations.
Where, When, Sign-up, Cost
Once a group is assembled, we’ll email date and time options for the next session, which can be attended either in a Western Massachusetts location or via interactive live video.
If interested, please write “SALI” in the message box of this contact form (you can add any other remarks there too).
The cost is $150 per person. Western Massachusetts people can put that $150 towards a year’s subscription to Living Local 413 (website updates in process).