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🇬🇧 In this episode, Jim is at NDC London, and spent some time chatting with Jennifer Marsman, Principal Engineer at Microsoft. They talk about how AI is a great assistant to do the busy work, so you can be creative and in control. They also dive into Phi-4, talk a bit about luddites, and Jennifer shares how AI helps with both bedtime stories, and managing medication for her dog!
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Jennifer’s talk at NDC London
Jennifer’s lie detection with ML talk at NDC London 2017
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In this episode:
00:00 - Intro
01:16 - The ways Jennifer uses AI to be more productive - writing poems and bedtime stories
02:14 - Using AI to convert time-based rules into a schedule
03:44 - AI is great for busy work, so we can do the fun stuff!
04:37 - Jennifer and Jim agree that AI is best as a copilot, not a pilot
05:00 - Humans are better than AI at creativity, AI is just a tool
07:40 - Not all problems need AI, sometimes code is better
11:15 - Phi-4, trained on textbook quality data and runs on device
13:30 - Phi-4 for trash sorting
16:00 - Phi-4 is available in Pieces! 🎉
16:22 - How Phi-4 was trained on synthetic data
18:50 - How do engineers gain skills to review AI generated code?
