Introduction and Louie Peters

0:01 I think it's called fashionably late is fine. But yes, as you can see, I am not alone today. I hope you can see that at least I am not alone today. Thank you all so much for joining for tuning in from wherever. Good night, good morning, good evening from US Owens Borro K, right? KY is KY. I think it's Kentucky Central time. Hello. So, it is should be 700 p.m. for you. um appropriate topic for me since what's that's what I'm doing currently going through all my articles and videos to select the most useful LLMs then this is going to be an extremely helpful live stream for you especially the guest that we have today which I shall now introduce so this is Louie Peters um and he does have a co-founder who is also called Louie and I got that confused several times but it's Louis Peters and it's Louis Fuansa right so two Louis co-founders Um, and I am really really excited to have him on board today.

1:14 So, I'm going to give you like a brief introduction. So, as you can see on his shirt, he is from Towards AI and he is the CEO of Tours AI. He's based in UK, but I believe you're in Australia right now, right? Yeah. Currently, I'm in Sydney, but generally based in UK. Generally based in the UK. Yes. Okay. So, backgroundwise, um, really interesting background. So, started out masters in physics at Imperial College London. He literally did space stuff.

1:37 So you were doing spacecraft data orbiting um final project is analyzing Cassini spacecraft data orbiting Saturn. So you were literally space is it called astrophysicist? Is that astrophysics? Um space physics is more spacecraft data whereas astrophysics is more telescopes and things but there quite a lot of overlap. I see. I see. And then you pivoted into investment research five years at JP Morgan. He was VP and led analysts across several sectors across Europe. Uh so he he worked in finance for a while um also to prepare for his own venture which he did seven years ago to full-time focus on learning AI.

2:24 So this is way before you know the AI boom everybody thought it was like super cool and things like that right. Um so you definitely saw all of that uh happening startup projects and he also advises many AI startups. So guys this is your person to ask if you're interested in AI startups the cutting edge of AI AI education. Um he also advised a personalized drug dosing platform called Vint Vzinta. Is that how you pronounce it?

2:47 Vzinta. Yeah. So if anybody like is looking for a startup advisor what to do this is this is your guy to ask. Very very deeply knowledgeable knowledgeable. And for the past five years he's been focused on making AI more accessible as the CEO and co-founder at tours AI and tours is a global remote company. and his co-founder is in Canada who's also the the guy who's also called Louie and they also have people in the US, India, Italy and Germany.

3:10 So I actually initially met other Louie Louansaw um at an Nvidia event and like some other events previously. So I met him there um and yeah and then we got connected. I realized all the things that Towards AI was doing and honestly they are amazing in terms of AI education. They have lots of courses as well which I will we'll share with you guys um as we go further along into the live stream. So if anybody is interested in just learning about AI like this is your go-to person and especially like AI startups businesses he's also just so on the cutting edge of everything of course including the topic today which is the landscape of large language models.

3:59 All right knowledgeable I know I I can't English Lou Louie must be your theme song. Yeah, actually I did ask you. I was like, "How do you guys not confuse each other?" And you're like, "You just refer he's Louie and it's Louisa, right? That's how you not maybe need to work on an AI generated theme song on those lines." Thanks for the intro. Anyway, Tina, it's great to join everyone today. Yes, thank you so much for being here.

4:23 Who is he? I I just explained who he is, so hopefully you heard that. Good morning from Bali, Dallas, Texas. Ki is in Kentucky. I got that right. Good job, Tina. from Boo Rant in Florida. Owens Boro Barbecue. I've never heard of that before. Um, hello from London, UK. Oh, hi. Hi from Oh, isn't it really early in London right now? Yeah, should be really early. Maybe more like midnight. Okay, we're really late. Yes. Well, thank you so much for joining.

4:48 Um, are you going to upload the stream after? I'm busy at the moment. Yep. So, stream is going to be here. Oh, and let me send you guys the link as per usual. Um, please do sign up. The stream itself will be here. And do sign up here as well because we'll be I'll email you the slides um that we're going to be going through today if you sign up in this link over here. Hey Tina and Louie from Chicago.

5:12 Volume is a bit low on the right. Who's that? Are you saying my volume is low or is Louis volume is low? Hi from Hong Kong. Hey, we're in the same city. We're the same. Yeah. Hey, how are you doing? I'm in Hong Kong right now as well. Good morning from Singapore. Hello. Also a neighboring location. All right, I am going to let's get started because I'm actually we do have lots of things to cover today and I want to give you guys the opportunity to ask Louie all the questions that you want to be asking because he's such a valuable like just getting him here you guys being able to ask him it's going to trust me you will learn a lot from this.

5:58 All right so with that introduction um I already mentioned towards AI. So at Towards AI, if Lou if you want to just take over the slides and then you can just let me know. Yeah, sure. I think a little popup there. Um so yeah, I'll talk more about what we do at Towards AI later, but I'm CEO and co-founder of a AI education company essentially been