Host(s):

• John Papa @John_Papa
• Ward Bell @WardBell
• Dan Wahlin @DanWahlin
• Craig Shoemaker @craigshoemaker

Guest:

• Mike Ryan @MikeRyanDev

Recording date: Nov 2, 2023

Brought to you by

• AG Grid

• IdeaBlade

Resources:

• What is Generative AI?
• Free Course on Generative AI for Beginners
• Generating Images (Skyboxes) with AI
• Few-Shot Prompting
• Prompt Engineering Techniques
• Temperature and Top_p Parameters
• Open AI Temperature Cheat Sheet
• Tiktoken
• What is Retrieval Augmented Generation?
• Hardcore History
• Adam Grant: “Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things”
• Dan Harris’s podcast with Adam Grant on this book
• Adam Grant’s bio

Timejumps

• 00:28 Welcome
• 01:01 Introducing Mike Ryan
• 02:17 Is AI over hyped?
• 07:47 Sponsor: Ag Grid
• 08:46 The illusion of AI can be easily broken
• 10:21 What AI is really good at
• 13:57 How do LLM produce the right summary?
• 24:42 Sponsor: IdeaBlade
• 25:40 Have you tried different LLMs?
• 27:47 Why do people need to run an LLM locally?
• 37:29 It's about testing and trust
• 39:32 How do you understand LLM's confidence in an answer
• 43:04 Final thoughts

Podcast editing on this episode done by Chris Enns of Lemon Productions.