Tag:tech-history

All the articles with the tag "tech-history".

• Stepfunction Episode 18

  Posted on:December 5, 2023 |  at 12:55 PM

  Jeff and Seymour review the dramatic changes at OpenAI

• Stepfunction Episode 14

  Posted on:October 6, 2023 |  at 12:26 PM

  Seymour and Jeff are back from summer break to discuss Microsoft's September event, Llama-2, and 4 waves of AI adoption.

• Stepfunction Episode 13

  Posted on:July 12, 2023 |  at 07:11 PM

  We talk about the launch of the Apple Vision Pro, Inflection AI's Pi chatbot, and other news.

• Stepfunction Episode 12

  Posted on:May 15, 2023 |  at 10:39 PM

  The valley is abuzz discussing an AI strategy memo that is purported to have leaked from Google.

• Stepfunction Episode 11

  Posted on:April 30, 2023 |  at 08:17 PM

  What is the best way to organize internal AI teams at large companies?

• Stepfunction Episode 10

  Posted on:April 19, 2023 |  at 04:26 AM

  Seymour and Jeff discuss the EPD framework and how that applies to product development for LLMs.

• InstructGPT and How LLMs are Trained

  Posted on:April 15, 2023 |  at 06:53 PM

  Notes on Ari Seff's January 2023 video on InstructGPT, prompt engineering, and RAG.

• Stepfunction Episode 9

  Posted on:April 3, 2023 |  at 04:33 PM

  Seymour and Jeff discuss audio generation and connect that to a larger conversation about generative AI and depfakes. Plus vim!

• Stepfunction Episode 8

  Posted on:March 28, 2023 |  at 11:58 PM

  Gordon Moore passed away which leads to a discussion about Moore's Law and the present and future of AI chips.

• 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.

• Turing Award Recognizes Bengio, Hinton, and LeCun

  Posted on:April 4, 2019 |  at 02:47 PM

  An brief history of neural networks from 1986-2014.

• Learned Index Structures–Why ML is a Foundational Technology

  Posted on:December 18, 2017 |  at 02:29 AM

  Really exciting paper on how AI is a stacking technology that improves other technologies--in this case improving efficiency of data structures.

• The Moore's Law of AI

  Posted on:November 8, 2017 |  at 07:38 PM

  Exponential growth in microprocessors, the web, and....AI?

• Learning HTML in 1994

  Posted on:June 25, 2017 |  at 07:38 PM

  Is studying linear algebra in 2016 like learning about Internet protocols in 1994?

• Relational Database Systems and AI

  Posted on:May 15, 2017 |  at 09:38 PM

  What can the history of RDBMS's teach us about the likely adoption of AI?