Generative AI in the Real World: The Future of Programming with Matt Welsh
What new applications does AI enable?
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Join us for a conversation between Ben Lorica and Matt Welsh, cofounder of Fixie.AI, former engineer at Apple and Google, and one of Mark Zuckerberg’s professors at Harvard. Learn how AI is changing computing. It’s not just simplifying (or replacing) coding; it’s creating new opportunities and new kinds of applications that we couldn’t imagine two or three years ago. Whether it’s in C or a human language, programming is telling a computer what you want it to do—but AI opens up new classes of things that we can ask it to do.
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Timestamps
- 0:00: Introduction.
- 2:38: Our topic is the changing nature of programming. What will replace programming?
- 3:07: Ultimately, the idea of writing a program will be replaced by telling a language model what you want to do. The language model will do what you want directly.
- 5:03: I can do things I couldn’t imagine doing. For example, summarize a transcript and find bios of speakers and relevant papers. You can’t write a program to do this.
- 7:01: There’s a whole new field of kinds of computation we couldn’t do before.
- 7:48: People in fields like medicine used to have to ask computer scientists to do things for them. Now, you don’t have to get a computer scientist to translate an idea into reality.