679: Creator of Swift, Tesla Autopilot & Tensorflow. New AI language Mojo with Chris Lattner

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Wes Bos

Tech News, News, Technology

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🗓️ 13 October 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Chris Lattner about Mojo, a new programming language for AI developers. Should developers learn Python? Where does Mojo run? What is Chris excited about in AI’s future? Show Notes 00:31 Welcome 01:05 Introducing Chris Lattner Chris Lattner’s Homepage Chris Lattner on Wikipedia Chris Lattner on GitHub Chris Lattner on Twitter Modular (@Modular_AI) / X Modular: AI development starts here Swift.org - Welcome to Swift.org 03:50 What’s the history behind the hardware? 08:10 What’s the difference between a compiled language vs an interpreted language? 12:13 Is Mojo a programming language? Mojo 🔥: Programming language for all of AI 15:12 Are Python libraries compatible with Mojo? 15:26 Why did you choose Python? 16:49 Why is AI so Python focused? 19:19 Should web developers learn Python? 21:40 Where does Mojo run? 25:05 How did you use the flame emoji for the Mojo file extension? 29:05 How does machine learning actually work? 37:36 Will Mojo be open source in some way? 39:16 How do you start developing a new programming language? 43:14 What is the future of developer jobs? 45:30 What are you excited about with AI in the future? 47:24 Supper Club questions Welcome to a World of OCaml 52:59 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Exercise Shameless Plugs Mojo 🔥: Programming language for all of AI Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets Wes Bos on Bluesky Scott on Bluesky Syntax on Bluesky

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0:00.0	I hear hope you're hungry!
0:02.5	Who I'm starving?
0:04.2	Wash those hands, pull up a chair, and secure that feedback.
0:08.1	Because it's time to listen to Scott, to Linsky, and Wes Boss attempt to use human language to converse with
0:14.2	and pick the brains of other developers.
0:16.8	I thought there was gonna be food.
0:18.7	So buckle up and grab that old f*** it handle.
0:21.7	Because this ride is going to get wild.
0:26.1	This is The Syntax Summer Club.
0:33.6	Welcome to Syntax, the podcast with the tastiest web development treats out there.
0:38.1	Today we have a really interesting one on today.
0:42.0	We have Chris Lattner of a modular and of a whole bunch of stuff in the past.
0:47.1	We'll talk about that in just a second to talk to us today about a new Python programming language called Mojo.
0:54.8	As well as a whole bunch of machine learning AI stuff behind that and pretty excited to have him on.
1:01.8	So Chris is men.
1:05.3	Probably one of the most well decorated, I guess we've had on the podcast.
1:09.8	Among many things, inventor of the Swift programming language was senior director, TensorFlow, Google, VP, autopilot, Tesla.
1:19.8	All kinds of really cool stuff in your background.
1:22.3	Thank you so much for coming on Chris.
1:23.8	How are you doing?
1:24.8	Awesome.
1:25.8	Well, it's really exciting to be here.
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