Tech lawyer Luis Villa returns to answer our most pressing questions: what's up with all these new content deals? How did Google think it was a good idea to ship AI Summaries in its current state? Is it too late to opt out of AI? We also discuss AI in Hollywood (spoilers!), positive things we're seeing (or hoping for) & Upstream 2024 (June 5th)!
Jan 14
The GitHub problem (and other predictions) (Friends)
Mat Ryer is back and he brought his impromptu musical abilities with him! We discuss Rob Pike vs thankful AI, Microsoft's GitHub monopoly (and what it means for open source), and Tom Tunguz' 12 predictions for 2026: agent-first design, the rise of vector databases, and are we abo ... Show More
1h 41m
Jan 12
Linus Torvalds gets the AI coding bug (News)
Linus Torvalds pushes AI generated code, Jordan Fulghum thinks this is the year of self-hosting, FracturedJson formats for compact / human readability, Scott Werner believes a flood of adequate software is coming, and Sean Goedecke explains why generic software design advice is u ... Show More
5m 5s
Feb 2024
Gemini vs OpenAI (Practical AI #256)
Google has been releasing a ton of new GenAI functionality under the name "Gemini", and they've officially rebranded Bard as Gemini. We take some time to talk through Gemini compared with offerings from OpenAI, Anthropic, Cohere, etc.
We also discuss the recent FCC decision to ... Show More
43m 31s
Mar 2024
Figure’s AI Robot, AI News, Cognition’s Devin, and the biggest AI bet yet! | E1915
<p>This Week in Startups is brought to you by…</p><p>LinkedIn Ads. To redeem a $100 LinkedIn ad credit and launch your first campaign, go to <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/thisweekinstartups" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">http://www.linkedin.com/thisweekinstartu ... Show More
53m 57s
Nov 2021
AI-generated code with OpenAI Codex
Recently, GitHub released Copilot, which is an amazing AI pair programmer powered by OpenAI’s Codex model. In this episode, Natalie Pistunovich tells us all about Codex and helps us understand where it fits in our development workflow. We also discuss MLOps and how AI is influenc ... Show More
46m 37s
Mar 2023
AI and Coding with ChatGPT
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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1h 6m
Feb 2022
One algorithm to rule them all?
From MIT researchers who have an AI system that rapidly predicts how two proteins will attach, to Facebook’s first high-performance self-supervised algorithm that works for speech, vision, and text, Daniel and Chris survey the AI landscape for notable milestones in the applicatio ... Show More
44m 55s
