WEBVTT 00:00.050 --> 00:04.430 I'll just take a quick moment to introduce myself to convince you that I am actually qualified to be 00:04.430 --> 00:05.960 taking you on this eight week journey. 00:05.990 --> 00:07.730 So my name is Ed Donner. 00:07.760 --> 00:13.400 I've got about 20 years of experience in software engineering, data science, and tech leadership. 00:13.400 --> 00:18.710 Most of my career at JP Morgan, where at the end I ran engineering teams of about 300 people. 00:18.740 --> 00:21.050 I started out in London where I'm from. 00:21.110 --> 00:26.000 I then moved to Tokyo for a bit and ended up in New York City, where I live now. 00:26.210 --> 00:29.720 After JP Morgan, I founded a couple of AI startups. 00:29.840 --> 00:35.720 My first startup was sold, was acquired a couple of years ago, and in fact, that picture on the bottom 00:35.720 --> 00:41.720 right shows the moment when it was announced on a Times Square billboard. 00:41.720 --> 00:44.720 That was a particularly magical moment for me. 00:44.720 --> 00:50.870 But I don't want to show you that photo to brag about my Times Square moment, but also because, curiously, 00:50.870 --> 00:53.030 I actually live very near Times Square. 00:53.060 --> 00:57.410 It's an unusual place to live because it's such a sort of tourist place to be. 00:57.440 --> 01:02.810 But if you see these two red arrows and you imagine where they join up, that's basically where I live. 01:02.810 --> 01:04.450 And that's where I am right now. 01:04.660 --> 01:09.250 And so if you can imagine if I wave at you right now, if this were somehow a real time photo, you'd 01:09.250 --> 01:13.120 have a little me waving at you from roundabout where those red lines meet. 01:13.600 --> 01:13.930 Okay. 01:13.960 --> 01:19.960 And the final thing to mention, the picture in the middle at the bottom shows me flying. 01:19.990 --> 01:21.430 Or in front of a plane. 01:21.430 --> 01:25.300 You might be thinking, that's me saying, this is my big passion, my hobby, I fly planes. 01:25.420 --> 01:28.030 But in fact, that's that's not not what I was going to say. 01:28.090 --> 01:34.000 It turns out that whilst I'm very proficient and highly skilled in the field of llms, that does not 01:34.000 --> 01:40.300 translate in any way to my hand-eye coordination, which is terrible on almost any front, including 01:40.300 --> 01:44.620 flying planes where I have tried and am very shaky to say the least. 01:44.650 --> 01:50.230 So if it turns out that you find yourself in a plane and you look at the cockpit and you see that I 01:50.230 --> 01:54.370 am the person there on the stick, I suggest you look quickly for the nearest parachute. 01:54.610 --> 02:01.120 But if it comes to you needing to go on an eight week course to build up commercial expertise in how 02:01.120 --> 02:04.750 to be an LM engineer, then you've come to the right place. 02:04.780 --> 02:07.750 All right, without further ado, let's get to the course.