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681: What's New in AI for Web Developers
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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
v0 by Vercel
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 ×××
××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Scott: Coding App for Kids | codeSpark Academy
Wes: Peter Santenello, Roblox
Shameless Plugs Scott: Sentry
Wes: Wes Bos Tutorials
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Wes’ Twitter
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