Episode 97: Artificial Intelligence, LLMs, ML: is all the hype warranted?

In this episode, Kendall and rachel talk about: * rachel's need to finish things and coping mechanisms around that * The recent spate of cold weather/storms and a tale of Kendall's friend and the whisky night * (This podcast may be sponsored by Friday Deployment Spirits, i guess) * An unsurprising objection regarding terminology * How Kendall is obviously a Markov Chain bot, and how have i never noticed this before * The fact that AI-directed research is nothing new * Public access to AI-type tools and how it has expanded the hype cycle * Environmental concerns around resources required * Robots and why they should just exist to do stuff humans don't want to do * Implications of the mismatch in public expectations vs the reality of what AI is actually capable of * Losing the ability of finding the needles of useful information in the haystack of real and generated content * How the hype is definitely hype but it should still be in your pitch deck * The word rachel was looking for: Captcha * Usefulness as a writing tool, but not as an author * Kendall's tantalizing taste of socialized medicine * rachel recommends: Shelter Point distillery's Smoke Point whiskey (Vancouver Island, BC) * Kendall recommends: barrel-finished/aged gins * rachel also recommends: The Future by Naomi Alderman * Kendall also recommends: Brandon Sanderson's The Way of Kings, Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale. Special thanks to Mel Stanley for our theme music <3