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• Stepfunction Episode 7

  Posted on:March 25, 2023 |  at 10:21 PM

  Podcast episode where we discuss recent articles about generative AI by Rodney Brooks, Bill Gates, and Thomas Friedman.

• Stepfunction Episode 6

  Posted on:March 17, 2023 |  at 09:18 PM

  New episode about launch of OpenAI's GPT-4, addition of genAI to Microsoft Office and Google Workspace office suite, and the power of efficient open-source LLMs.

• Stepfunction Episode 5

  Posted on:March 12, 2023 |  at 11:13 PM

  Image generationg and generative AI continue to get attention by general publications like The New Yorker.

• Stepfunction Episode 4

  Posted on:March 4, 2023 |  at 10:56 PM

  New Stepfunction episode exploring image generation as opposed to the usual text generation from LLMs.

• Stepfunction Episode 3

  Posted on:February 28, 2023 |  at 04:26 AM

  Jeff tries out an analogy for top-down symbolic AI vs. bottom-up machine learning.

• Stepfunction Episode 2

  Posted on:February 23, 2023 |  at 07:47 PM

  We talk about the behind-the-scenes at OpenAI that led to ChatGPT's surprise viral success.