S8E1: Cool New Things You Can Do with AI or: How YD Learned to Start Worrying and Love Long Context Windows

For our season opener, Young Diogenes has a chat with Chris and Medlir about some cool new things large language models can now do for us. Specifically, why some companies, like Google with Gemini, are choosing to concentrate on increasingly larger context windows (i.e., the size of the text, music, video prompt, etc., that the AI can parse).   And why being able to load an entire book, a movie, or your entire life into the prompt and then have a conversation about these things, might be useful.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_EliVUkuFA&t=23s&ab_channel=TwoMinutePapershttps://www.tomsguide.com/ai/i-test-ai-for-a-living-and-googles-new-version-of-gemini-is-a-turning-point-for-the-industryhttps://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/04/words-are-flowing-out-like-endless-rain-recapping-a-busy-week-of-llm-news/https://blog.google/technology/ai/long-context-window-ai-models/