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Track Talk W7

How Generative AI Works (a very rough guide)

Jarsto van Santen

11:30 - 12:15 CEST Wednesday 4th June

Let’s build a language model together! Think it’s impossible in the timeframe? Well it’s not going to be a general purpose Large Language Model. In fact it’s going to be a highly limited, incredibly Tiny Language Model. It’s not about what the Language Model can do in this case, it’s about what building it will show us.

I believe that to make truly effective use of a tool we need to have a rough understanding of how it works. But for many testers and automators LLMs seem to be a black box: we don’t know how they work, so we’re not sure when to use them or not to use them.

Making a TLM based on audience input is just one of the ways in which this talk aims to give a rough guide to how Generative AI works. So that we don’t end up doing the equivalent of trying to push a nail into a wall with a screwdriver, or using a chainsaw instead of sandpaper.

What you will learn

  1. How do the innerworkings of AI models and agents influence their testabilty
  2. What can and can't be fixed with better prompting when using genAI
  3. Turning AI models from a fully opaque black box into something a bit more transparent

Session Details

  • Introductory
  • 45 minutes
  • Includes 15 mins Q&A
  • Implementing/integrating AI tools
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Check out this video from Jarsto van Santen to hear more about this talk, ‘How Generative AI Works (a very rough guide)’.

We look forward to welcoming you to EuroSTAR 2025.

Session Speaker

Jarsto van Santen

Jarsto van Santen

DUO, Netherlands

Jarsto has been playing with code for over 30 years. Despite studying law he eventually saw sense and turned his hobby into a career. He now works as a Specialist Test Engineer at DUO (part of the Netherlands’ ministry of Education).  

In his free time Jarsto is mildly obsessed with world history, science fiction and fantasy, and all sorts of technology he doesn’t get to play around with at work (yet). He never has quite enough time for all the books and games he’d like to get around to.

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