Episode 68 - Open AI Assistants vs GPTs
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AI Overload (for now!) Oh yes, AI overload for sure! This time around we take a casual stroll around Open AI assistants and GPTs. GPTs are custom chatGPT instances anyone can create. For example, you can create your own GPT to allow an upload of PDFs (or several) and perform some "chatGPT" type stuff on that or those specific PDFs. Lots more you can do, so check the links below. Assistants are similar to GPTs however, this is more for developers. You do not get an easy front-end to create GPTs, you use code to call assistant APIs. But this also provides...
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Episode 67 - Logseq Knowledge Management Open Source
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Welcome back! For this episode, kindly suggested by my good friend , we have a privacy first knowledge management app for all of your devices. You could download the code, run as a docker container which means you could keep everything on your own environment instead of letting those massive corporations control you! ( :) ). Anyway, take a listen for more and the links as mentioned are below: (scroll down a bit to see the main read me) - I forgot to mention they have iOS, Android and Desktop covered! The wonderful Tim "whispering Bob" Abell Finally, a direct link to the ...
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Episode 66 - Dotnet Aspire
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We all love to aspire to be something better :) even robots! .NET Aspire is a new way to build out microservice type projects. I believe I am correct in saying Aspire definitely had some foundations from project TYE which was an experiment a year or so back. In addition, DAPR is also a similar offering however, Aspire aims to be rather opinionated (which can be a good thing!) and DAPR is more of a pick and choose offering. Anyway, a few links below, but take a listen for some further ramblings! Until next time, take care.
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Episode 65 - WASM WASI Wass Up
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Welcome back. Whhhaaassup with WASM and WASI - look, I'm trying okay! Anyway, WASM and WASI - what does all of this mean? That is what we are talking about today! Some links on WASM/WASI:
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Episode 64 - It is that time of year again
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Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays or whatever you want to call it! A couple of links from the show: Until the next time, take care.
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Episode 63 - Oh my goodness AI is everywhere
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Wow, I know this gets used everywhere, but you have to say, his enthusiasm was right there, along with a rather sweaty shirt :) But does he care? probably not since he is a billionaire, right? Well, replace "developers, developers" with "AI, AI" - I just don't have the time or skills to do a clever video rework! But goodness me, AI does seem to be moving at a pace. Of course, the key bit is trying to find some really practical ways to use it! :) So, the first thing is the Humane pin. Is this the Apple iPhone moment for smartphones generally? well, it is a device that...
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Episode 62 - The FOMO Monster Returns
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A heavily Microsoft slant for this one! Where do I begin... well, have a listen, and if you really want to know more I have summarised the overall .NET conf stuff below :) .NET Conf 2023 Keynote - Welcome to .NET 8 Introduction .NET Conf over the next 3 days, hear from team, partners, and the .NET Community about what's new in .NET and things people are building with it. Goal: build a unified development platform that developers love and businesses trust, enabling them to build any kind of application with best-in-class runtime, programming languages, development tools, and a vast...
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Episode 61 - Das Prompt or Prompting all the way to the Bank
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Okay, so I re-watched "" again recently and, of course, immediately thought, "what would this look like with cats?": So, there it is! I enjoyed the theme music to Das Boot too, but it then reminded me of a can you believe? Anyway, what the heck does this have to do with the subject at hand? well, "Das Prompt" came to mind for some reason! or "prompting all the way to the bank". The gratitude chain: Thanks to for sending the link Keep well and until the next time, goodbye!
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Episode 60 - Heart of Glass
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Okay, you might not be as old as I but surely you remember Blondie! But heart of glass is what we are talking about today - when talking about all of this data we are creating! Where does that data go? how is it stored? well, in most cases, the data is stored on hard disks (SSD or otherwise) and for backups/long-term storage it is mostly still down to tape! yes, the 80's cassette tapes are not forgotten! :) . Storing data (more like backups, not fast read-write stuff like in your laptop or phone... yet!) in glass. which explains more.
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Episode 59 - The ARC of Truth or Browser in this case
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Another browser? Well, a browser with some nifty tricks up its sleeves perhaps! It also still uses the chromium engine, so no worries about another browser compatibility war! has developed a new bundle of AI-powered features called Arc Max. The goal of Arc Max is to make the internet experience faster and easier for users. Some of the features of Arc Max include 5-second previews, which provide information on restaurants or other websites by simply hovering over a link; tidy tab titles that shorten and organize the titles of open tabs; automatic renaming of downloaded files to...
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Wow, I know this gets used everywhere, but you have to say, his enthusiasm was right there, along with a rather sweaty shirt :) But does he care? probably not since he is a billionaire, right?
Well, replace "developers, developers" with "AI, AI" - I just don't have the time or skills to do a clever video rework!
But goodness me, AI does seem to be moving at a pace. Of course, the key bit is trying to find some really practical ways to use it! :)
So, the first thing is the Humane pin. Is this the Apple iPhone moment for smartphones generally? well, it is a device that "pins" to your jacket/shirt etc. (although I would say it is more like a badge!). Interesting concept given that it is in the realm of a pricey smartphone but without a screen as such - although it does have a cool green laser which will display stuff on your hand when you hold it out in front of you. It is completely driven by AI, and that accounts for the $699 price tag but also $24 per month for the mobile/cell access. I am not sure about the rest of the world as yet, but I am guessing it will be equivalent pricing. Here is a link to another news article coving the key points.
Also, the drama of OpenAI of late:
- OpenAI (who bring you chatGPT) board of directors fired Sam Altman (CEO) apparently for not exactly telling the truth... but about what you ask?
- After a couple of days, Microsoft (a big investor in OpenAI) offered a job to Sam Altman and anyone else from OpenAI
- The day after, it seems the OpenAI board of directors were disbanded (although I don't know the exact scenario!) and Sam Altman was back as CEO
Allegedly, the reason for this "not telling the truth" bit was about the latest internal GPT (or otherwise!) possibly named "Q*" internally having reached AGI status. AGI means "Artificial General intelligence.". Basically, the AI can reason and approach a problem as a human could (although there are many, many descriptions of AGI!).
So many more things, but that will do for today!
Take care until the next time!