Bristol Meetups

Clojure Programming Group (Playing with Python AI GPT2)

• What we'll do - This study group is for people who want to learn or improve their knowledge of Clojure (https://clojure.org/) and ClojureScript (https://clojurescript.org/)

All levels of experience are welcome.

• What to bring
A laptop and an open mind.

It would be helpful if you have Leiningen (https://leiningen.org/) installed and an IDE with a Clojure plugin, though not essential.

• Important to know

Limited Short stay parking is available.

Doors open at 6pm.

This event we'll be playing with GPT-2 an AI model from OpenAI that can be used to power services like:
https://talktotransformer.com/
https://aidungeon.io/

More information here: https://openai.com/blog/better-language-models/

We'll be doing this via Python interop following this tutorial: http://gigasquidsoftware.com/blog/2020/01/10/hugging-face-gpt-with-clojure/

Additionally, we'll be helping beginners start with their IDEs & hello world style projects for anyone new to Clojure