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Aug 2023
48m 34s

577: Shawn Wang on AI

Chris Coyier & Dave Rupert
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Shawn Wang joins us to talk about his work in AI, why prompt engineering is not what you need to focus on, how the scope of AI is bigger than any one of us, how to deal with the consistency of AI, and how to make use of AI in your product or app. 
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