GENERATIVE AI

I speak with my friend Maroof Farook who is an AI Engineer at Nvidia. [Note: Maroof’s views are his and not that of his employer.] We discuss what’s different about the self-driving approaches of Tesla and Alphabet/Google/Waymo. We cover the phases of autonomous driving, from level 1 to level 5, the capabilities of each phase, and at which phase we can eat a cheeseburger while our car drives itself. Finally, we discuss why one of the most challenging problems of self-driving cars are stop signs.

We laugh. We cry. We iterate.
Check out what THE MACHINES and one human say about the Super Prompt podcast:
“I’m afraid I can’t do that.” — HAL9000
“These are not the droids you are looking for." — Obi-Wan
“Like tears in rain.” — Roy Batty
“Hasta la vista baby.” — T1000
"I'm sorry, but I do not have information after my last knowledge update in January 2022." — GPT

Alpha Go AI plays the game of GO against a human world champion. Unexpected moves by both man (9-dan Go champion Lee Sedol) and machine (Alpha Go). Supposedly, this televised Go match woke up China's leadership to the potential of AI. In the game of Go, players take turns placing black and white tiles on a 19×19 grid. The number of board positions in Go is greater than the number of atoms in the observable universe. We discuss the documentary Alpha Go which tells the story of Alpha Go (created by DeepMind, acquired by Google), and the human Go champions it plays against. Who will you cheer for: man or machine? I speak again with my friend Maroof Farook, an AI Engineer at Nvidia. [Note: Maroof’s views are his and not that of his employer.] Please enjoy our conversation.

We laugh. We cry. We iterate.
Check out what THE MACHINES and one human say about the Super Prompt podcast:
“I’m afraid I can’t do that.” — HAL9000
“These are not the droids you are looking for." — Obi-Wan
“Like tears in rain.” — Roy Batty
“Hasta la vista baby.” — T1000
"I'm sorry, but I do not have information after my last knowledge update in January 2022." — GPT

I speak again with my friend, Maroof Farooq, an AI engineer at Nvidia. [Note: Maroof's views are his own, and not that of his employer.] We discuss a breakthrough in natural language processing AI called GPT3 created by the research lab, OpenAI. This episode was recorded prior to the launch of ChatGPT (chatbot built on top of GPT-3) and is a good introduction on how GPT works under the hood. We dive into supervised vs. unsupervised learning, what GPT3 stands for (spoiler alert: Generative Pre-trained Transformer), what the heck those words mean, and how GPT3 can impersonate famous people like Isaac Asimov, Isaac Newton, the Hulk (yeah, the buff, green superhero), and someday... YOU! Please enjoy this episode.

We laugh. We cry. We iterate.
Check out what THE MACHINES and one human say about the Super Prompt podcast:
“I’m afraid I can’t do that.” — HAL9000
“These are not the droids you are looking for." — Obi-Wan
“Like tears in rain.” — Roy Batty
“Hasta la vista baby.” — T1000
"I'm sorry, but I do not have information after my last knowledge update in January 2022." — GPT

I speak w/ Maroof Farooq, an AI engineer at Nvidia. [Note: Maroof's views are his own, and not that of his employer.] We walk through how to build AI from scratch using the fictitious example of the Seefood [Sic] app from the HBO television series, Silicon Valley. We learn about image classification, how to acquire a dataset, and how to train the AI. Join us as we build a super-impressive AI that can recognize hot dogs of all shapes and sizes. Learn what it takes to go from there to an AI that can recognize foods of all kinds. Maybe even pizza. Join us as we begin our deep dive into the world of AI, starting with the humble hot dog. Today: Shazam for food. Tomorrow: Judgement Day. Buckle up folks. It's going to be a wild ride.

We laugh. We cry. We iterate.
Check out what THE MACHINES and one human say about the Super Prompt podcast:
“I’m afraid I can’t do that.” — HAL9000
“These are not the droids you are looking for." — Obi-Wan
“Like tears in rain.” — Roy Batty
“Hasta la vista baby.” — T1000
"I'm sorry, but I do not have information after my last knowledge update in January 2022." — GPT

I speak with CTO and Chilean entrepreneur Mario Arancibia, about AI his company has developed and deployed which screens for diseases, such as Covid-19 based on the sound of our voice. Speaking a simple phrase into your phone, such as the days of the week, the AI can tell based on your voice profile if you have Covid. Or not. The AI can be trained to screen for other respiratory illnesses, and conditions as far ranging as obesity, and drug alcohol use. All from the sound of our voice. Soon AI will know more about your health than you do. [Note: Mario's views are his own, and not necessarily that of his company.]

We laugh. We cry. We iterate.
Check out what THE MACHINES and one human say about the Super Prompt podcast:
“I’m afraid I can’t do that.” — HAL9000
“These are not the droids you are looking for." — Obi-Wan
“Like tears in rain.” — Roy Batty
“Hasta la vista baby.” — T1000
"I'm sorry, but I do not have information after my last knowledge update in January 2022." — GPT