COOTWbot by ngetahun

Project Description

At SCC, we have a rotating task of COOTW (Commanding Office of the Week). This task involves responding to customer requests from jira and slack help channels, monitoring production systems and doing small chores. Usually, we have documentation to help the COOTW answer questions and quickly find fixes. Most of these are distributed across github, trello and SUSE Support documentation. The aim of this project is to explore the magic of LLMs and create a conversational bot.

Goal for this Hackweek

• Build data ingestion Data source:
  • SUSE KB docs
  • scc github docs
  • scc trello knowledge board

• Test out new RAG architecture

• https://gitlab.suse.de/ngetahun/cootwbot

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ghostwrAIter - a local AI assisted tool for helping with support cases by paolodepa

Description

This project is meant to fight the loneliness of the support team members, providing them an AI assistant (hopefully) capable of scraping supportconfigs in a RAG fashion, trying to answer specific questions.

Goals

• Setup an Ollama backend, spinning one (or more??) code-focused LLMs selected by license, performance and quality of the results between:
  • deepseek-coder-v2
  • dolphin-mistral
  • starcoder2
  • (...others??)
    
• Setup a Web UI for it, choosing an easily extensible and customizable option between:
  • openwebui
  • localAI
  • lobachat
  • (...others??)
    
• Extend the solution in order to be able to:
  • Add ZIU/Concord shared folders to its RAG context
  • Add BZ cases, splitted in comments to its RAG context
    • A plus would be to login using the IDP portal to ghostwrAIter itself and use the same credentials to query BZ
  • Add specific packages picking them from IBS repos
    • A plus would be to login using the IDP portal to ghostwrAIter itself and use the same credentials to query IBS
    • A plus would be to desume the packages of interest and the right channel and version to be picked from the added BZ cases

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Gen-AI chatbots and test-automation of generated responses by mdati

Description

Start experimenting the generative SUSE-AI chat bot, asking questions on different areas of knowledge or science and possibly analyze the quality of the LLM model response, specific and comparative, checking the answers provided by different LLM models to a same query, using proper quality metrics or tools or methodologies.

Try to define basic guidelines and requirements for quality test automation of AI-generated responses.

First approach of investigation can be based on manual testing: methodologies, findings and data can be useful then to organize valid automated testing.

Goals

• Identify criteria and measuring scales for assessment of a text content.
• Define quality of an answer/text based on defined criteria .
• Identify some knowledge sectors and a proper list of problems/questions per sector.
• Manually run query session and apply evaluation criteria to answers.
• Draft requirements for test automation of AI answers.

Resources

• Announcement of SUSE-AI for Hack Week in Slack
• Openplatform and related 3 LLM models gemma:2b, llama3.1:8b, qwen2.5-coder:3b.

Notes

• Foundation models (FMs):
  are large deep learning neural networks, trained on massive datasets, that have changed the way data scientists approach machine learning (ML). Rather than develop artificial intelligence (AI) from scratch, data scientists use a foundation model as a starting point to develop ML models that power new applications more quickly and cost-effectively.

• Large language models (LLMs):
  are a category of foundation models pre-trained on immense amounts of data acquiring abilities by learning statistical relationships from vast amounts of text during a self- and semi-supervised training process, making them capable of understanding and generating natural language and other types of content , to perform a wide range of tasks.
  LLMs can be used for generative AI (artificial intelligence) to produce content based on input prompts in human language.

Validation of a AI-generated answer is not an easy task to perform, as manually as automated.
An LLM answer text shall contain a given level of informations: correcness, completeness, reasoning description etc.
We shall rely in properly applicable and measurable criteria of validation to get an assessment in a limited amount of time and resources.

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SUSE AI Meets the Game Board by moio

Use tabletopgames.ai’s open source TAG and PyTAG frameworks to apply Statistical Forward Planning and Deep Reinforcement Learning to two board games of our own design. On an all-green, all-open source, all-AWS stack!

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Results: Infrastructure Achievements

We successfully built and automated a containerized stack to support our AI experiments. This included:

• a Fully-Automated, One-Command, GPU-accelerated Kubernetes setup: we created an OpenTofu based script, tofu-tag, to deploy SUSE's RKE2 Kubernetes running on CUDA-enabled nodes in AWS, powered by openSUSE with GPU drivers and gpu-operator
• Containerization of the TAG and PyTAG frameworks: TAG (Tabletop AI Games) and PyTAG were patched for seamless deployment in containerized environments. We automated the container image creation process with GitHub Actions. Our forks (PRs upstream upcoming):
  • https://github.com/moio/TabletopGames/tree/hackweek24
  • https://github.com/moio/PyTAG/tree/hackweek24

./deploy.sh and voilà - Kubernetes running PyTAG (k9s, above) with GPU acceleration (nvtop, below)

Results: Game Design Insights

Our project focused on modeling and analyzing two card games of our own design within the TAG framework:

• Game Modeling: We implemented models for Dario's "Bamboo" and Silvio's "Totoro" and "R3" games, enabling AI agents to play thousands of games ...in minutes!
• AI-driven optimization: By analyzing statistical data on moves, strategies, and outcomes, we iteratively tweaked the game mechanics and rules to achieve better balance and player engagement.
• Advanced analytics: Leveraging AI agents with Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) and random action selection, we compared performance metrics to identify optimal strategies and uncover opportunities for game refinement .
  • more about Bamboo on Dario's site
  • more about R3 on Silvio's site (italian, translation coming)
  • more about Totoro on Silvio's site

A family picture of our card games in progress. From the top: Bamboo, Totoro, R3

Results: Learning, Collaboration, and Innovation

Beyond technical accomplishments, the project showcased innovative approaches to coding, learning, and teamwork:

• "Trio programming" with AI assistance: Our "trio programming" approach—two developers and GitHub Copilot—was a standout success, especially in handling slightly-repetitive but not-quite-exactly-copypaste tasks. Java as a language tends to be verbose and we found it to be fitting particularly well.
• AI tools for reporting and documentation: We extensively used AI chatbots to streamline writing and reporting. (Including writing this report! ...but this note was added manually during edit!)
• GPU compute expertise: Overcoming challenges with CUDA drivers and cloud infrastructure deepened our understanding of GPU-accelerated workloads in the open-source ecosystem.
• Game design as a learning platform: By blending AI techniques with creative game design, we learned not only about AI strategies but also about making games fun, engaging, and balanced.

Last but not least we had a lot of fun! ...and this was definitely not a chatbot generated line!

The Context: AI + Board Games

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Learn how to integrate Elixir and Phoenix Liveview with LLMs by ninopaparo

Description

Learn how to integrate Elixir and Phoenix Liveview with LLMs by building an application that can provide answers to user queries based on a corpus of custom-trained data.

Goals

Develop an Elixir application via the Phoenix framework that:

• Employs Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) techniques
• Supports the integration and utilization of various Large Language Models (LLMs).
• Is designed with extensibility and adaptability in mind to accommodate future enhancements and modifications.

Resources

• https://elixir-lang.org/
• https://www.phoenixframework.org/
• https://github.com/elixir-nx/bumblebee
• https://ollama.com/

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AI for product management by a_jaeger

Description

Learn about AI and how it can help myself

What are the jobs that a PM does where AI can help - and how?

Goals

• Investigate how AI can help with different tasks
• Check out different AI tools, which one is best for which job
• Summarize learning

Resources

• Reading some blog posts by PMs that looked into it
• Popular and less popular AI tools

Work is done SUSE internally at https://confluence.suse.com/display/~a_jaeger/Hackweek+25+-+AI+for+a+PM and subpages.

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