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This week we’re talking about LLMs with Simon Willison. We can not avoid this topic. Last time it was Stable Diffusion breaking the internet. This time it’s LLMs breaking the internet. Large Language Models, ChatGPT, Bard, Claude, Bing, GitHub Copilot X, Cody…we cover it all.

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Featuring:

• Simon Willison – Twitter, GitHub, Website
• Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
• Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

Show Notes:

• AI-enhanced development makes me more ambitious with my projects
• Cerebras-GPT: A Family of Open, Compute-efficient, Large Language Models
• I lost everything that made me love my job through Midjourney over night.
• ChatGPT plugins
• nomic-ai/gpt4all
• Houston AI
• Unreal Engine 5.2 - Next-Gen Graphics Tech Demo (State of Unreal 2023)
• Apple’s secret M1 coprocessor

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