Programming Throwdown Episode 161.

Leveraging Generative AI models with Higai Lopesco.

Take it away, Jason.

Hey, everybody.

So, you know, we have seen so many AI hype cycles around so many different areas, right?

We've seen self-driving cars was a big deal in 2009, if people remember that.

At the time, Ray Kurzweil has been talking about the singularity forever.

Oh, there was even beyond AI, there was Bitcoin and Web3 and all of that.

And Patrick and I, we've had folks on, but ourselves, like, I haven't, like, I've kept a little bit of an arm's reach from like the latest shiny object

syndrome but I think generative AI is amazing I'll be I'll just put it out there I don't think

it's singularity AGI type stuff but I do think that there's a tremendous opportunity to

create value with generative AI I've been really excited about it. I've been diving deep

into the literature and, you know, also, yeah, applications. And I know a lot of other folks

have too. It's a really exciting area. It's an area that I'm pretty excited about as well.

And I'm super excited to have Hagaa Lebesco on the show. He's the VP of

engineering at Mosaic ML. So thanks for coming on this show, Hagi. Hey, Jason. Hey, Patrick. Thanks for

having me. Cool. So we'll definitely dive into generative AI and how folks can use it at home or at their

business. But let's start off by talking a little bit about you. What's your background?

What was the path that you took that brought you to Mosaic?

Yeah. So I'm currently the VP of Engineering at Mosaic M, and I guess we'll probably touch on Mosaic

ML a bit later on. But I really started my career a while back now. If there's been video,

you could have seen all my gray hair. So, but I started my career as an engineer, you know,

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