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PESA ACT/NSW February Technical Talk

Tuesday, 11 February @ 12:00 pm - 2:30 pm (Australia/Sydney time)

$20.00 – $50.00

Guest Speaker(s): Ian Grierson

After graduating from Sydney University in 1967, Ian began his working career as a seismic geophysicist with Esso Australia.

In 1975 he transferred to Esso Malaysia and from there, in February 1977 moved to Exxon Production Research Company in Houston Texas where he headed up the computer mapping
and modelling group. In August 1980 he transferred back to Australia to head up a similar group for the Rundle oil shale project.

After 14 years Ian left Exxon to join Mincom as an executive director responsible for NSW operations. In 1984, Ian, together with Dr. David Pratt formed Encom Technology, a consulting and software company servicing both the petroleum and minerals exploration industries.

Encom Technology was sold to Pitney Bowes in December 2007, 50 years to the day from when Ian first started with Esso. In 2004 Ian was made a Distinguished Member of PESA.

PESA NSW February Technical Talk

AI for Fun and Profit

Ian’s talk will include a brief history of AI and then introduce the concept of Large Language Models (LLM’s) – these include systems such as ChatGPT, CoPilot, Gemini, Claude and others.

It will also present issues with LLMs including the way they can hallucinate, their poor ability with simple arithmetic and recent developments that suggest we are rapidly reaching the situation where AI systems can think and plan and also scheme and lie.

The main part of the talk will describe a recently introduced Google product, Notebook LM, and how it differs from the more well known LLMs as mentioned above.

Details

Date:
Tuesday, 11 February
Time:
12:00 pm - 2:30 pm
(Australia/Sydney time)
Cost:
$20.00 – $50.00
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  • Venue

    Castlereagh Boutique Hotel
    169 Castlereagh St
    Sydney, NSW 2000 Australia
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    Phone
    +61 2 9284 1000
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