Hey there's shoppermaniacs you're listening to another episode of the Shop Talk show.

I'm Dave, a little bit sick and literal chainsaws in the backyard, Rupert.

And with me is Chris Coyer. Hey, Chris.

I'm sorry, Dave, but I...

Yeah, so I should say, I'll probably be muted occasionally, some hot mic's mutes because

I have people trimming my trees and, you know, just the way times work, it's had to be

during the recording.

Yeah, I mean, for me, it's all I can do not to stand there and watch them, you know?

I am, but I'm also like terrified because it's just

these big branches coming down. I've already lost a lot of big branches. So this is very

interesting. Anyway, that's me. Out of sight, out of mine. Chris, who do we got in the show today?

Yeah, we are, we are joined in the virtual studios today by Maggie Appleton. Hey, Maggie, how are you? Hi, thank you for having

me. Yes, wonderful. Longtime fan, owner of a spectacular website. I assume that's how I know

you in some way. Once in a while, drop a real banger blog post and goes around like crazy. That's

happened recently. You're a kidding involved and have

been involved for a number of years now in kind of the larger world of AI, wouldn't you say?

Yeah, I'm specifically in the language model world. I'll say I think we're putting a lot of big

things under this umbrella of AI. And I'll say I know nothing about like generative images or any of the like very tricky

moral issues of like artist rights and generative images, which is also a good hot topic on

Twitter today.

I am very firmly in the like chat GPT-esque, like words, just generating words, not necessarily

solving cancer with neural nets or any of that kind like words, just generating words, not necessarily solving cancer with neural nets

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