Exploring Machine Learning and Personal Tech Picks

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk about the current landscape of AI, how AI is trained, is AI going to take your job, who’s going to train AI, and adding AI to your applications.

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Show Notes

• 00:11:10 Welcome
• 01:58:01 Sponsor: Sentry
• 03:16:05 What this episode is not going to be
• 07:36:11 The current landscape
• Chat GPT
• GitHub Copilot
• Warp Completions
• Midjourney
• Bing AI
• From Bing to Sydney
• Why a Chat with Bing Left Me Deeply Unsettled
• Tensorflow
• Stable Diffusion
• Amazing AI
• Dall E
• 15:26:11 Timeline of growth of AI
• AI Timeline
• 16:24:11 What is a model for AI?
• 24:20:11 How do you use AI?
• 33:14:00 Code brushes
• 35:57:18 Midjourney
• Yandex
• 40:13:18 Is it going to take your job?
• Canva
• Cal
• 50:22:19 Cost prohibitive
• 52:26:20 Who’s going to train the robots?
• 57:29:12 Adding AI to your apps
• 58:50:11 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ×××

××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ×××

• Scott: Motion sensor
• Wes: Apple Watch Ultra

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• Scott: LevelUp Tutorials
• Wes: Wes Bos Tutorials

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