How to hire an AI/LLM consultant?

Posted by Rashnok@reddit | ExperiencedDevs | View on Reddit | 17 comments

My company has a directive from leadership to integrate an AI chat agent into our BI dashboard. Ideally we would have an LLM parse natural language questions, construct API calls to retrieve data from existing services and then interpret the results. No one on our team has any experience in this domain, and we're looking to hire an outside consultant to come in and lead the implementation on this project. Any tips on how to hire someone right now? Any good interview questions?

Or is this too new and we should just start training up our own engineers? Any open source projects we could learn from?

I also would take compelling evidence that this is a really stupid idea, and we won't be able to get good results given the current state of LLMs, or really any help in this area, thanks!