July Event Recap and Links

Thank you to the 70 folks who joined us at Baker Hall for our July event!

Thank you to everyone who joined us at CMU’s Baker Hall for PyData Pittsburgh’s July event, Does Generative AI Know Statistics?

Dr. Louis Luangkesorn, Lead Data Scientist at Highmark Health, shared practical lessons from working with Generative AI in real-world analysis. Using Google’s Gemini AI and framing his talk around the “three Cs” of context, collaboration, and conscience*, he illustrated how GenAI can struggle with nuance, and how to navigate those limitations effectively. Louis showed us how prompt engineering can help ground AI responses, and how experienced analysts know when to ask questions about what is missing.

*concept from Polly Mitchell-Guthrie

✨ Dr. Luangkesorn’s LinkedIn post on the “three Cs”, including insights on how humans gain expertise through failure (unlike AIs trained only on published texts).

🚀 Dr. Luangkesorn’s blog article: Failures and how does it impact the quality of Generative AI

🧪 Full Jupyter Notebook from the talk on GitHub Gist.

🙏 Special thanks to the CMU volunteers who helped make this event run smoothly!