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Episode 268: Democratizing AI or AI for Everyone with Lee Stott

Episode Summary

Lee Stott talks with us about how AI is a democratizing technology, the challenges in making sure AI is used responsibly, who the target audience is for AI, and the AI tools Lee Stott thinks are worth watching.

Episode Notes

Host(s):

• John Papa @John_Papa
• Ward Bell @WardBell

Guest:

• Lee Stott @lee_stott

Recording date: Jan 25, 2024

Brought to you by

• AG Grid

  

• IdeaBlade

Resources:

• Lee Stott on LinkedIn
• University College of London
• Lee Stott, Honorary Associate Professor in Teaching at UCL
• Democritizing AI
• iPhone’s decade worth of impact
• AI Revolution
• What if AI Could Rebuild the Middle Class
• What is the Rabbit R1 device?
• Rabbit r1 is an AI-powered sidekick that’s like a future version of Siri
• Best practices for deploying language models
• Small Language Models
• Semantic Kernel
• LangChain
• Semantic Kernel Cookbook
• Educator Developer Blog
• Microsoft Learn
• Microsoft Student Resources
• Azure AI Studio
• BaseCamp’s “Shape Up” methodology for defining, choosing and “estimating” projects

Timejumps

• 00:43 Introducing Lee Stott
• 03:37 What does Democratizing AI really mean?
• 10:44 Sponsor: Ag Grid
• 11:48 When something is truly available to everyone, that's when you've democratized it
• 20:05 Who is the target audience for AI in 2024?
• 27:08 Sponsor: IdeaBlade
• 28:06 What AI tools does Lee Stott think are worth checking out?
• 35:24 Final thoughts

Podcast editing on this episode done by Chris Enns of Lemon Productions.