Episode 97: Artificial Intelligence, LLMs, ML: is all the hype warranted?

Authority Issues

In this episode, Kendall and rachel talk about:

• rachel's need to finish things and coping mechanisms around that
• The recent spate of cold weather/storms and a tale of Kendall's friend and the whisky night
• (This podcast may be sponsored by Friday Deployment Spirits, i guess)
• An unsurprising objection regarding terminology
• How Kendall is obviously a Markov Chain bot, and how have i never noticed this before
• The fact that AI-directed research is nothing new
• Public access to AI-type tools and how it has expanded the hype cycle
• Environmental concerns around resources required
• Robots and why they should just exist to do stuff humans don't want to do
• Implications of the mismatch in public expectations vs the reality of what AI is actually capable of
• Losing the ability of finding the needles of useful information in the haystack of real and generated content
• How the hype is definitely hype but it should still be in your pitch deck
• The word rachel was looking for: Captcha
• Usefulness as a writing tool, but not as an author
• Kendall's tantalizing taste of socialized medicine
• rachel recommends: Shelter Point distillery's Smoke Point whiskey (Vancouver Island, BC)
• Kendall recommends: barrel-finished/aged gins
• rachel also recommends: The Future by Naomi Alderman
• Kendall also recommends: Brandon Sanderson's The Way of Kings, Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale.

Special thanks to Mel Stanley for our theme music <3