Practical Gen AI: Building a Chatbot using Spring AI

In this code-driven talk using Kotlin, Spring Boot and htmx, Rod will show just how good the JVM is as a platform for building Gen AI applications. He'll show how to use Spring AI to build a chatbot with personality, covering: - RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) using a VectorStore - Why and how to mix different LLMs, including open source LLMs running locally, in the same application - How the Spring AI ""advisor"" architecture can be used to create clean, reusable components - How to add a toxicity guard and other crosscutting functionality - How and why to exchange structured data with LLMs - Best practices for building Gen AI applications He'll share his code on GitHub so attendees can continue their own exploration.