The Robots Are Here to Help (Not Kill) You! A Conversation with Aled Miles and Jim Whitehead

07/19/23 • 46 min

Welcome back to Test Case Scenario! Join host Jason Baum and our panel Evelyn Coleman, Marcus Merrell & Nikolay Advolodkin with our CEO Aled Miles and Chief Scientist Jim Whitehead as they discuss:
✅ Aled & Jim's talk at C-Vision 2023
✅ What is prompt engineering?
✅ Common pitfalls of ChatGPT
✅ How generative AI impacts us as devs & end-users
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0:00 - Intro
1:25 - Aled & Jim’s talk about the evolution of AI at C Vision 2023
9:00 - Prompt engineering
13:48 - How does generative AI impact our jobs?
15:17 - The value of generative AI in leadership & business processes
20:44 - Real-life use cases for ChatGPT
22:20 - Code-generating model AIs (CodeCompose by Meta, Cloud Composer by Google)
27:28 - How generative AI impacts developers, end-users, & the world at large
33:00 - Common pitfalls with ChatGPT
36:43 - Can generative AI replace CEOs?
40:08 - Is “prompt engineer” a real job? ANSWERED
41:01 - What’s the most fun conversation you’ve had with ChatGPT or Bard?
42:33 - What’s the scariest “the robots are going to kill us” conversation you’ve had with ChatGPT (or Bard)?
43:45 - What’s the worst “hallucination” you’ve seen from generative AI tools?

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Welcome to Test Case Scenario! In this episode, join host Jason Baum and our special guests Marcus Merrell and Evelyn Coleman as they talk through when automated testing goes wonky! Discover valuable insights into failures in automated testing and how to avoid them.
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0:52 - Introduction
4:12 - Where companies are with testing today
4:42 - Things you see going from manual to automated testing
5:18 - Making a computer do testing versus human testing
14:15 - Which failure is easy to overcome?
15:25 - How to not run yourself dry and catch errors early
21:10 - How to start on a sound foundation do ‘spring cleaning’