Meet Kathleen Kenealy, a Software Engineer at Google DeepMind, working on the next generation of large language models (LLMs) and open models. In the episode we talk about Gemma, Google’s newest family of lightweight, state-of-the-art open models built from the same research and technology used to create the Gemini models.

Join us as we unpack the history and the importance of open technology at Google and the advantages and risks of sharing cutting edge technology with the world. We learn how that open technology started Kathleen on her own journey into AI. Kathleen shares her experience growing her team from being the only team member at first working on Gemma, growing up loving STEM, her graduate school experience working with AI Chatbots, and more on this episode of People of AI hosted by Ashley Oldacre!

Chapters:
0:00 - Intro
1:13 - Kathleen’s story
4:26 - Love of math
12:56 - Love of theater
16:31 - Experience going to an all girls school
24:04 - Internship and TensorFlow
27:00 - LLM studies in college
33:11 - Lightbulb moment
37:10 - Journey into Google
41:04 -The value of open technology
43:00 - Birth of Gemma
43:45- Description of Gema
44:40 -Safety and Responsibility
52:50 - What is next?

Resources:
Gemma links:
Gemma: Introducing new state-of-the-art open models → https://goo.gle/3UYQksT
Fine-Tuning Gemma Models in Hugging Face → https://goo.gle/3TiAU1m
Gemma models in Kaggle → https://goo.gle/48ypQ4p
Shining Brighter Together: Google’s Gemma Optimized to Run on NVIDIA GPUs → https://goo.gle/3Tf1wjA
Google AI Studios → https://goo.gle/3P3eCxM

Gemini Era links:
Announcement → https://goo.gle/3uYRhGM
Gemini API → https://goo.gle/3T1kmJS

TensorFlow → https://goo.gle/3BwLZSN

Responsible AI
Conversation with Tulsee Doshi→ https://goo.gle/4a75OzA
Responsible Generative AI Toolkit → https://goo.gle/4czolWO

Watch more People of AI → https://goo.gle/PAI
Subscribe to the TensorFlow channel → https://goo.gle/TensorFlow


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Speaker: Ashley Oldacre
Products mentioned: Gemma