Speaking at WordCamp U.S. in August

I was re­cently en­cour­aged to sub­mit a talk pro­posal to the AI track at WordCamp US. I was more than happy to oblige, and to my sur­prise, I got in. See de­scrip­tion be­low for de­tails. I hope to see some of y’all there!

Description

Machine learn­ing has been around for decades. Un­til re­cently, run­ning ML mod­els typ­i­cally re­quired big cen­tral­ized servers due to high com­pu­ta­tional de­mands. With mod­ern hard­ware and tools like Rust and Burn, we can flip the script. When run on a user’s de­vice, trained mod­els can be an in­cred­i­ble boost to hu­man cre­ativ­ity and ex­pres­sion.

Harper is a gram­mar checker that is de­signed to im­prove your work with­out de­grad­ing your in­tegrity—or the writ­ing ex­pe­ri­ence it­self. Our users gen­er­ate and pub­lish novel ideas faster be­cause we fo­cus on what’s im­por­tant: speed, pri­vacy, and ac­cu­racy.

WordPress’ mis­sion is to de­moc­ra­tize pub­lish­ing. This talk will ex­plore how we can use AI to de­moc­ra­tize writ­ing too. More im­por­tantly, how you can train and de­ploy spe­cial­ized mod­els at the edge to elim­i­nate in­fer­ence costs, lower la­tency, and im­prove user sat­is­fac­tion.