Gašper’s work combines machine learning, statistical modeling, neuroimaging, and behavioral experiments “to better understand how neural networks learn internal representations in speech and how humans learn to speak.”One thing that surprised him about generative adversarial networks (GANs)? How innovative they are, capable of generating English words they’ve never heard before based on words they have.Read about how AI is restoring a stroke survivor’s ability to speak.Universal grammar proposes a hypothetical structure in the brain responsible for humans’ innate language abilities. The concept is credited to the famous linguist Noam Chomsky; read his take on GenAI.AI expert Yoshua Bengio recently signed an open letter asking AI labs to pause the training of AI systems powerful enough to pass the Turing test. Read about his reasoning.Find the Berkeley Speech and Communication Network here.Find Gašper on his website, Twitter, and LinkedIn. Or dive into his research.Congratulations to Lifeboat badge winner and self-proclaimed data nerd John Rotenstein, who saved How can I delete files older than seven days in Amazon S3? from the ignominy of ignorance.

Zapier is a no-code automation platform that allows users to create custom workflows for their critical work apps. Learn how it works, peruse the blog, or sign up to try beta AI features.Check out Reid’s article about how to write more effective AI prompts.Zapier built a natural language actions (NLA) API to enable AI models to independently use natural language to complete Zapier actions.You know the doge, but do you know the dog? RIP Balltze.Find Reid on LinkedIn and the social network formerly known as Twitter.Find Kyle on LinkedIn, GitHub, and text-based social media.

Joey, a Stack Overflow employee, discusses the Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) at Stack Overflow that focus on diversity, inclusion, and belonging. They emphasize the importance of ERGs and allyship in creating a supportive workplace environment. The podcast also explores the initiatives of the allyship group and the need for dedicated spaces for allies and people of faith.

The podcast discusses building a scalable spam fighting system using real-time analytics and AI. It also explores the evolution of face detection and recognition, tactics to combat comment and sign up spam, handling asynchronous rebuilds for indexing, and challenges in recommendations for live streams of buying and selling.

The podcast discusses how Sorcero uses AI to make medical research more understandable. They explain the challenges faced by Medical Affairs Teams in keeping up with new information. The speakers also explore the use of AI to improve accessibility and communication in healthcare. Additionally, they discuss attribution in Stack Overflow's JNI world and express frustration with filling out forms at doctors' offices.

Alex and Kyle discuss building AI gateway and search APIs for Overflow AI, including the new search experience on Stack Overflow for teams. They explore the use of embeddings and large language models. The conversation also touches on hidden prompts in the industry and improvements in APIs. They express excitement for the rapidly changing industry and shaping the future of Stack Overflow.

The hosts discuss tech in finance industry, domain-driven design, event-driven architecture, and Kafka streams. Discover's speakers share their experiences with Spark, HBase, microservices, RabbitMQ, Kubernetes, and Kafka. They explore event-driven architecture, orchestration vs choreography, and scaling challenges. They also highlight the importance of chaos testing in cloud-native development.

The mission of Night Shift Development is to democratize data analytics to help organizations and users of all skill levels understand their data. Their flagship product, ClearQuery, is a data intelligence and analytics platform designed for nontechnical users. ClearQuery has a free version that lets you try out the full array of features. Learn how it works and register here to get started, gratis.Learn how Stack Overflow implemented semantic search to allow users to search using natural language.Read about why self-healing code is the future of software development.Tim is on LinkedIn. Thanks and congrats to Lifeboat badge winner Boann, whose answer to Sort four numbers without an array has been viewed 23,000 times and counting.

Vlad is Head of Research and Development at Siemens Healthineers, the healthcare arm of tech conglomerate Siemens. He wrote about SRE on our blog here.His book, Establishing SRE Foundations: A Step-by-Step Guide to Introducing Site Reliability Engineering in Software Delivery Organizations, is available now. Site reliability engineering (SRE) applies a software engineering approach to IT operations and infrastructure, with the goal of building scalable, reliable systems capable of handling constant updates from dev teams. SRE is closely related to DevOps.ICYMI, we talked with Chef cofounder Adam Jacob about how he’s creating a new-and-improved approach to infrastructure automation. Listen to that conversation here.Connect with Vlad on LinkedIn, where you can also read snippets of his book on SRE.Lifeboat badge winner Abbas Galiyakotwala’s answer to How do I split a comma-separated string? filled a void of ignorance with a little extra knowledge.