Hey, what's up? This is Scott with Syntax and just a quick message before this episode gets started.

This is going to be an interview that I did with Dr. Sarah Bird on Microsoft's campus.

I was invited to do a VSCode Insiders summit and had the extreme pleasure of being able to sit down in chat with Sarah.

Sarah is the chief product officer of responsible AI at Microsoft. But she's not just

the chief product officer of responsible AI at Microsoft. Her credentials really speak for themselves.

She's been doing an extreme amount of work in the open source community for a long time.

And she is responsible for many projects, which you may have heard of. In fact, I'm going to list off some of them right here.

She co-founded Onyx, Fairlearn, and OpenDP's Smart Noise,

and was a leader in PiTorch 1.0 and interpret ML projects.

She was an early member of the Machine Learning Systems Research Community.

She co-founded the MLSys research conference

and the learning systems workshop. She has a PhD from UC Berkeley. She's been epically involved

in the machine learning and AI world for a long, long time, longer than most of you have even

heard about this stuff. So being able to sit down with Dr. Bird and pick her brain about all kinds of stuff from

what is our role as individual developers with responsive AI to just her general thoughts

and we even get a sick pick out of her.

So before we kick this interview off, just a quick message.

This podcast is brought to you by Century. And in the regards of her. So before we kick this interview off, just a quick message, this podcast is brought to you

by Century. And in the regards of AI and responsible AI, man, Century is doing some great stuff

where it's letting you know of potential issues in your application and using a new tool called

Seer allows you to fix those right away.

I had a situation just the other day where I had this really mysterious bug.

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