681: What's New in AI for Web Developers

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk through recent developments in AI and how they might be useful for developers, whether AI is still worthy of the hype, and whether developer jobs are at risk from AI. Show Notes 00:10 Welcome 03:10 Syntax Brought to you by Sentry 03:49 v0.dev v0 by Vercel

09:28 Anthropic and Claude Claude

Syntax Listener Survey

18:02 Facebook’s Meta AI AI at Meta

18:48 Cloudflare AI Large language model (LLM)

Speech to text

Translation

Sentiment Analysis

Image classification

Embedding

27:24 AI Hardware announced Rewind

29:39 Cloudflare Hugging face Hugging Face – The AI community building the future.

StarCoder: A State-of-the-Art LLM for Code

Vectorize: a vector database for shipping AI-powered applications

36:28 OpenAI Function calling Function calling and other API updates

38:55 GPT-4V GPT-4V(ision) system card

42:36 GitHub CoPilot 44:03 Are we still on the AI hype train? 48:27 Are our jobs at risk as developers? 52:24 Spotify DJ AI Spotify Debuts a New AI DJ

53:29 ChatGPT plugins ChatGPT plugins

55:19 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Scott: Coding App for Kids | codeSpark Academy

Wes: Peter Santenello, Roblox

Shameless Plugs Scott: Sentry

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