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Hey there and welcome to Tech Stuff.

I'm your host, Jonathan Strickland.

I'm an executive producer with iHeartRadio and how the tech are ya?

So last week, I said I would do an episode about Dr. Jeffrey Hinton,

the so-called Godfather of AI.

My dog is very interested in this as he winds in the background.

And as I publish this, we're into the fifth month of 2023 and I still feel pretty good about calling this the year of AI.

While artificial intelligence has obviously been a discipline for decades with lots of impressive displays and exhibitions and developments throughout the years,

the buzz around an attention to AI fields has really hit a high point this year, largely driven by stuff like large language models, LLMs,

as well as the chat bots built on top of them that seem to be pretty knowledgeable, almost human in their capabilities.

Plus you throw in some image and video and audio capabilities that allow us to use a machine to create all sorts of stuff.

And you've got yourself something that the average person can at least recognize as AI.

A lot of AI applications historically have been so far behind the scenes that you might not even recognize it as artificial intelligence or you might not think of it in that context.

But now we're going to a point where there's at least the appearance of machines behaving similarly to people within certain contexts.

And it becomes way easier for the average person to say, wow, hang on what's going on.

Now I say that because as I have pointed out in this show many, many times, there are lots of different aspects of artificial intelligence, some of which have been around for many years and some of them have even been causing problems for many years.

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