Don Shin

BIO

Don Shin is the founder and CEO of CrossComm- an award-winning mobile, web, and immersive app development studio with a 20+ year history of deploying innovative technologies to solve the toughest problems and challenges. Under Mr. Shin’s leadership, the Durham, NC-based company has been recognized as one of the leading mobile and AR/VR app developers in the region by clutch.co, and has been nationally recognized as the Minority Technology Firm of the Year (2015) by the US Dept. of Commerce. Mr. Shin has been a passionate advocate for human-centric user interfaces throughout his career, and is currently interested in exploring the future of XR, spatial computing, and generative AI- and leveraging app innovation to advance social good.

TITLE

Computers That “Get It”: Using LLMs to Give Software Semantic Understanding

ABSTRACT

Computers have always been supremely efficient at pushing data around in an agnostic fashion; with Large Language Models (LLMs), software can now gain a semantic understanding of the content being handled. This capability opens up a number of possibilities, semantic search being one of the most broadly and immediately useful.

Attendees of this talk will gain:

• A basic understanding of how LLMs coupled with vector databases unlock the possibility of semantic meaning-dependent use cases
• A review of applicable scenarios spanning verticals and industries
• A brief overview of available tools for implementing semantic search
• case study involving a deployment of LLMs to power semantic search.