Rocky Mountain AI Interest Group (RMAIIG)

*** SCAM WARNING *** As RMAIIG grows, we are seeing an increase in scam postings on Slack, Meetup, and LinkedIn targeting our members. One RMAIIG member has already fallen victim and lost money, unfortunately. 1. If a post offers something for free (e.g., "Free MacBook Air") or involves buying/selling (e.g., "How do I sell my Red Rocks tickets?"), it's likely a scam. 2. These posts will be removed immediately, and the account responsible will be deactivated. 3. If you want to give something away, bring it to a meeting—please do not post it on our channels. If you need to sell something, please visit any of the 3,482 places online where this is appropriate. 4. If you see a suspicious post, report it immediately to [email protected] or any RMAIIG Board member or subgroup leader. Thanks for helping us keep RMAIIG safe from scams. Your vigilance makes a difference! *** SCAM WARNING ***

We have two fantastic Rocky Mountain AI Interest Group (RMAIIG) Student Board members who are University of Colorado Boulder Computer Science majors looking for AI summer internships. Our students do so much to help the group, plan and run meetings and provide all kinds of support and assistance. If you have an opportunity or know of one, please DM us and we'll get you connected right away! Hyma Jujjuru, Nabil Djaber

Not quite a pi equation, but AI + Law = a more efficient practice. Excited to be co-presenting with Chris Brown at this hands-on workshop in Boulder! Join us in person on Tuesday, March 18th at 8:30 AM to explore how AI can help streamline legal work for both entrepreneurs and lawyers. ?? What you’ll learn: Entrepreneurs – Discover how ChatGPT can help you explore legal issues and review contracts. Lawyers – Get hands-on with AI tools like Spellbook and ChatGPT to enhance your practice and provide more value to clients. We’ll walk through real-world examples, test prompts live, and tackle audience-suggested legal challenges with AI-driven problem-solving. If you’re curious about how AI can transform legal work, join us for a workshop and IRL connection ?? Register here: https://lnkd.in/gN6p8nMi Thanks to Phil Nugent & the Rocky Mountain AI Interest Group (RMAIIG) for hosting! #AI #LegalTech #Entrepreneurship #BusinessLaw #LawyersWhoLoveTech

I had a blast demoing "Von Puppenstein" at the latest Rocky Mountain AI Interest Group (RMAIIG) event! It was an honor to share the stage with Trevor Uptain and Christian Robins. I learned a lot about scaling call center technologies from a Y-Combinator backed expert, and the incredible ways AI is transforming post at the production powerhouse 11 Dollar Bill. Demo details: Live voice cloning made possible by Cartesia, which is also used for TTS. Understanding of the video feed and generating text for speech is handled by Google AI for Developers #Gemini. The hardware is Rob Knight's open source SO-ARM100 from The Robot Studio (who is also planning to release H.O.P.E. Jr, which the Brain Wave Collective would build if anyone wants to sponsor a project for RMAIIG's November humanoid robotics meetup). Robot control, teleoperation, and the #ML training framework is Hugging Face's open source #LeRobot library supported by Remi Cadene. Observability is handled by an Arize AI Phoenix server. The related application is an extension of a conversational AI hackathon that I did with some friends Junaid Dawud and Alex Volkov. Everything is self contained and portable thanks to a Raspberry Pi. Background music by Suno, with synthetic voices made possible thanks to our brave volunteers. Also, a shot out to Boulder Public Library's Building 61 for last minute support. Thank you Bobby Hodgkinson and University of Colorado Boulder for being such incredible hosts, Anna Rahn and Richard Gann for event operations, and Dan Murray for everything you have you have done to maintain such an incredible community.

Last night’s Rocky Mountain AI Interest Group (RMAIIG) meeting in Boulder was a fun deep dive into the future of Voice AI and human-machine interaction. Thanks to everyone who attended and made the event possible! Our speakers shared their latest insights and expertise into conversational AI, voice synthesis, real-time cloning, and how Voice AI is transforming industries from insurance to media production. Their presentations and engaging discussions gave us a clearer picture of how AI-powered voices are reshaping the way we communicate, create, and interact. Fasten your seatbelts! A big thank you to our awesome speakers for their interesting presentations: Trevor Uptain from Medicare Vox on scaling Voice AI for regulated industries Daniel Ritchie from Brain Wave Collective on real-time voice cloning and AI-powered robotics Christian Robins from 11 Dollar Bill on AI-driven media production and creative storytelling We’re also incredibly grateful to Tim Morrissey, Ph.D. from Drive Capital for sponsoring pizza, keeping the room energized for great discussions. And a huge shoutout to Bobby Hodgkinson for helping to arrange our meeting space. Thank you to all the volunteers who helped with logistics, and to our engaged audience—your thoughtful questions made the event come alive. It was great to see many RMAIIG board members, volunteers and attendees, including: Anna Rahn, Pranjal Aggarwal, Phil Nugent, Jason Cormier, Bill McIntyre, Uche Ogbuji, Richard Gann, Lauri Hofherr, Chris Brown, Diane Sieber, Cynthia Coulbourne, Ken Fricklas, Teresa Nugent, Jen Hanson, Samantha Lopes, Jennifer O., Josh Zapin, JP Batra, Mark Nolte, Chris Byrne, Michael Boucher, Dave Taylor, Ryan Conk and so many more!

On May 14th, we're hosting our second Member Showcase! Local companies and community members are invited to present their AI projects during a trade fair-style event. The showcase has two parts: tabling in the lobby, and presenting in the lecture hall. During the tabling, event attendees will walk around the lobby, look at various projects/participate in demos, ask questions to presenters, learn about new technology, and eat free pizza. The top projects from the tabling segment, decided by popular vote, will have the opportunity to present in the lecture hall afterwards to our full audience. Interested in presenting? Apply here by May 1st: https://lnkd.in/g-vvF5yf If we receive more applications than we have available spots, a selection committee will choose which projects are invited to table. Have questions? DM us, or reach out to Anna Rahn! #aiprojects #rmaiig #ai #technology #coloradotech

Here’s a big RMAIIG welcome to our newest subgroup, AI & Product, run by Lauri Hofherr with help from Gary Fox and Jen Hanson! We’re excited to have you guys join the community!

Andres Sepulveda Morales thanks for all your hard work in AI community building in Fort Collins, northern Colorado and beyond! Everyone, if you haven't plugged into Andres' group, "FoCo AI for Everyone" check it out here (even if, and maybe especially if you're not an AI expert!): https://lnkd.in/g6csEE5W

Thanks to our "pizza hero" meeting sponsor, Tim Morrissey, Ph.D. from Drive Capital, for providing pizza to our 200 attendees at the Rocky Mountain AI Interest Group (RMAIIG) meeting tomorrow on “AI Voice Technology." (We wish we could invite more attendees, but alas, the meeting is full with over 80 people on the waiting list.) Our group relies on generous sponsorships like this, and we couldn't do it without our community supporters, including Sonya Hausafus and Dave Mayer. If you'd like to sponsor a future meeting, please reach out any time. (No requirement to wear pizza-themed pteruges, so don't worry!) Drive Capital is a stage-agnostic venture capital firm investing in technical founders building companies in large markets.?With over $2.2B in assets under management, Drive is a permanent capital partner throughout your company's journey, whether you need your first $500K to launch or your last $150M before going public. (Image credit: Tim Morrissey)