AI Chip Wars, Solo D&D, and Fallout

Show Summary

This week, Brett and Travers start off talking about the new Fallout TV series on Amazon Prime, with Brett sharing his positive impressions of the first episode.

They then cover several AWS news updates, including the ability to tag CloudWatch alarms via CloudFormation. Deploying Bedrock knowledge bases through CloudFormation, and new top-level domains supported by Route 53 like .beer and .fun.

The topics then shift to recent AI developments, including:

• A report that Amazon’s Just Walk Out technology heavily relied on human reviewers rather than being fully automated
• Canada’s federal government is committing $2.4 billion to AI and computing initiatives
• Using ChatGPT to play solo Dungeons & Dragons campaigns
• The “Chip Wars” with articles on new AI-focused chips from Intel, Meta, Apple, Arm, AMD and others optimized for different use cases.

Whether it’s powering large AI models in the cloud, running edge computing workloads, or enabling more intelligent devices and automotive systems, the rise of specialized AI chips from all the major players is front and center.

With AI being so prominent in tech news lately, Brett recommends the book “Co-Intellgence” by Ethan Mollick on responsibly working with AI systems.

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Show Notes

• 00:00 Welcome to Episode 16: Breaking Tradition
• 00:35 Diving into Fallout: A Series Review
• 02:56 Movie Night Gone Wrong: Angry Birds 2
• 04:26 The Art of Tagging in Cloud Computing
• 06:46 New Features in CloudFormation and Route 53
• 07:52 The Domain Hoarding Dilemma
• 12:16 Exploring Container Solutions and EKS Updates
• 16:52 JustWalkOut Technology: Behind the Scenes
• 19:30 Canada’s Big Bet on AI
• 20:42 Exploring AI Safety and Author Insights
• 22:22 Diving into Solo D&D with ChatGPT
• 29:31 The Fascinating World of AI Chips and Technology
• 35:16 The Future of AI in Consumer Devices and Edge Computing
• 44:22 Wrapping Up: The Omnipresence of AI Technology

Links from today’s episode

• Amazon Cloudwatch Tagging
• Amazon Bedrock and CloudFormation
• Amazon Route53 TLD
• Amazon VPC CNI
• Amazon AI Powered Checkout
• Solo D&D with ChatGPT
• Canadian Government AI Investment
• Intel Gaudi 3 Chip
• Meta MITA Chip
• Apple M4 Chips
• ARM Internet of Things AI Chips
• AMD Versal AI Chip
• Intel Edge Optimized Chip