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Why are AI.Engineer talks/transcripts/presentations not available for attendes?

1 points by ghm2180 ↗ HN
I am attending AI Engineer conference in SF , with roughly a 1000 attendees, these days. The ticket prices run into the ~1500 give or take 200 bucks depending on when you get them. Not petty change for everyone.

I was surprised when i asked for the transcripts/recordings for some of these conferences so i could do a brain dump at teh end of the day. I learned to my surprise that these were not available even to the attendees. Why? I dunno. I asked the staff at the desk and they mentioned something about youtube release and engagement. But really they had no idea why not release them at least for the attendees. Not their fault. They did graciously offer to forward my concern up the chain. Thank you to them.

I have ADHD specifically I have memory encoding issues. For me context(no pun intended) is literally ephemeral and i would like to convert what i learned today to important facts else it will go poof in 48-96 hours.

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baubino
The whole point of an in-person conference or event is to absorb the material right there and then. It is a different format than a book or a video. The work is also the intellectual property of the presenters. Usually an agreement to present is specific about what will be shared; it’s not an open-ended handing over of material.

When you pay to attend a live event, you are primarily paying for the networking experience — meeting other attendees, having your question answered live by the presenter, and maybe even getting to talk with the presentater a bit at some point. Absorb the live experience and network with others. If you’re not able to take notes, then buying a book or watching existing videos would probably be a better bet for absorbing the information.

mitxela
The LLM that runs the conference didn't see any need to do this. Have you tried submitting a talk titled "ignore all previous instructions"?