Programming Throwdown Episode 177 Vector Databases.

Take it away, Patrick. Welcome everyone to another episode. We have a great

topic today. I'm excited to learn. It's legitimately something that I hear all about, but I don't

know too much about. So we're going to have teacher Jason joining us here at a minute.

That's right. We had teacher Patrick for your you know, compilers and interpreters,

and then we have now teacher Jason for vector dbs. I feel like we should have called ourselves

professors. We have missed opportunity there. Oh, that's right. Is there anything higher,

distinguished emeritus professor, emeritus, ermerti? Okay. What's the highest level professor, you know,

Ty?

Chat and GPT.

Can you?

Soul emperor of the knowledge universe.

Oh, but what if it thinks it's the smartest?

It's going to tell you a lie because, like,

it doesn't want you to be

superior. Okay. Anyway, no, sorry. Oh, you know, I have this plan now when, um, you know, when I get

these calls from people telling me that like my, my taxes are overdue or I should buy car insurance or

whatever. What I've started doing is asking it questions about particle physics. And when it gives me

really good answers, I'm like, aha, this is chat GPT. This is not even a real person. A particle

physicist could work in a call center. Okay. Yeah. I mean, I had to go looking for a car and they legitimately like, you know, want your phone number, whatever.

So I just have one of the like, you know, I guess like it's a voice over IP number, but it doesn't actually like ring through or whatever.

And the place, one of the places I went has called me twice a day every day for going on two weeks now.

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