The Data Stack Show - The PRQL: AI Roundtable: Putting AI in Historical Context and Real-Life Learnings Through Prototyping, with Eric, John, and Matt

Episode Date: August 5, 2024

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Welcome to the Data Stack Show prequel. This is a short bonus episode where we preview the upcoming show. You'll get to meet our guest and hear about the topics we're going to cover. If they're interesting to you, you can catch the full-length show when it drops on Wednesday. Welcome back to the Data Stack Show. We have a special episode for you today with just the Data Stack Show team. We actually invited Matt Kelleher Gibson, also known by his stage name, the Cynical Data Guy, onto the show, in large part because he and I have been working on a ton of LLM projects

internally at Rudderstack. And of course, we want to make the world a better place by putting another podcast out on the air that discusses AI and LLMs. So we're doing our part. We're doing our part on that. But lots of interesting things to discuss. Matt, what are you what's on your mind? We have some topics to discuss, but what's on your mind? I think just talking about kind of where we are with LLMs in general. And, you know, there's a lot of talk always about the hype of it, but also kind of what's the reality and where is it still, what's difficult and what are the actual use cases for it? Yep. John?

Yeah, I think in addition to, we talked about this on a previous episode of what I like to call single player mode versus multiplayer mode. And it'd be interesting to explore again, what are we seeing in single player mode, which is like, oh, look at this cool thing I can do. Yep. And then like, what is it truly to have something in production in an app with hundreds or thousands, you know, people using it simultaneously? It's just they're not the same problem, right? Yep. Yep. I love it. All right. Well, let's dig in. That's a wrap for the prequel. The full length episode will drop Wednesday morning. Subscribe now so you don't miss it.