In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk through recent developments in AI and how they might be useful for developers, whether AI is still worthy of the hype, and whether developer jobs are at risk from AI.

Show Notes

• 00:10 Welcome
• 03:10 Syntax Brought to you by Sentry
• 03:49 v0.dev
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09:28 Anthropic and Claude

Claude

Syntax Listener Survey

18:02 Facebook’s Meta AI

AI at Meta

18:48 Cloudflare AI

Large language model (LLM)

Speech to text

Translation

Sentiment Analysis

Image classification

Embedding

27:24 AI Hardware announced

Rewind

29:39 Cloudflare Hugging face

Hugging Face – The AI community building the future.

StarCoder: A State-of-the-Art LLM for Code

Vectorize: a vector database for shipping AI-powered applications

36:28 OpenAI Function calling

Function calling and other API updates

38:55 GPT-4V

GPT-4V(ision) system card

42:36 GitHub CoPilot

44:03 Are we still on the AI hype train?

48:27 Are our jobs at risk as developers?

52:24 Spotify DJ AI

Spotify Debuts a New AI DJ

53:29 ChatGPT plugins

ChatGPT plugins

55:19 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ×××

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• Scott: Coding App for Kids | codeSpark Academy

Wes: Peter Santenello, Roblox

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