Episode 36 • Killing as Few Humans as Possible
Peter is away this week... or is he? A special appearance! Scott drinks some wacky coffee that's not really all that wacky and does arguing with a person who really IS wacky. Is it worth listening to? You tell us! Or rather, don't. We'll leave that to the AI to decide.
The brew
The Topics
- The Brews
- AI and technical and ethical concerns
- Timnit Gebru
- What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work?
- Tech Won’t Save Us – ChatGPT Is Not Intelligent w/ Emily M. Bender
- On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots | Proceedings of the 2021 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency
- ChatGPT Is Nothing Like a Human, Says Linguist Emily Bender
- Policy makers: Please don’t fall for the distractions of #AIhype | by Emily M. Bender | Mar, 2023 | Medium
- Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott thinks Sydney might make a comeback - The Verge
The Links
- Water Avenue Coffee River Trip
- Timnit Gebru - Wikipedia
- What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work?
- Tech Won’t Save Us – ChatGPT Is Not Intelligent w/ Emily M. Bender
- On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots | Proceedings of the 2021 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency
- ChatGPT Is Nothing Like a Human, Says Linguist Emily Bender
- Policy makers: Please don’t fall for the distractions of #AIhype | by Emily M. Bender | Mar, 2023 | Medium
- Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott thinks Sydney might make a comeback - The Verge
- FriendsWBrews
- Friends With Brews Podcast
Episode 35 • Good Enough for My Wife to Steal
Peter is so desperate (how desperate?) he drinks Hop Water, Scott doesn't, and they fill in the backstory of their notebook journeys and leaving Evernote.
The brew
The Topics
- The Brews
- The history of Peter and Scott’s notebook journeys
- Evernote
- Apple Notes
- Notion
- Obsidian
- Rocketbook
- Building the perfect assistant
- Text editor followup
The Links
- Monkless Belgian Ales Shepplekofeggan
- HOP WTR Sparkling Hop Water with Nootropics
- Best Note Taking App - Organize Your Notes with Evernote
- Notion – Your wiki, docs & projects. Together.
- Obsidian
- Smart Notebook | The Original Reusable Notebook | Rocketbook
- Auto-GPT - The next evolution of data driven Chat AI
- AgentGPT
- FriendsWBrews
- Friends With Brews Podcast
Episode 34 • What is a Computer?
Peter drinks something sour, Scott drinks something sour, and they both talk about window managers, outliners, and why they both are on the same page with respect to Mac vs. iPad Pro for getting work done.
The brew
The Topics
- The Brews
- Future Peter topics
- Window manager update
- Bike Outliner
- What is a computer? Why are some iPad Pro pro users switching away from it back to the Mac as their main pro workflow machines?
- Secure ShellFish
The Links
- Rodenbach Classic Belgian Sour Ale Oak Aged
- Prairie Artisan Ales Blueberry Boyfriend
- Tony’s Coffee Cafe Carmelita
- AutoGPT
- AgentGPT
- Best Note Taking App - Organize Your Notes with Evernote
- Notion – Your wiki, docs & projects. Together.
- Lasso - Window Manager for macOS
- Bike Outliner: Outline writing, lists, and notes app for Mac
- Secure ShellFish – SSH Client for iOS
- FriendsWBrews
- Friends With Brews Podcast
Episode 33 • Memory Lane is Full of Old Computers
Scott balances out a bad beer with a good beer. Peter cuts his own hair. Peter sets up Auto-GPT and Chat-GPT in a cage match, the guys talk about text editors and IDEs, and then both Peter and Scott drone on for almost an hour about the old days of computing.
The brew
The Topics
- The Brews
- GPT showdown – Auto-GPT vs. Chat-GPT
- Text editors
- Visual Studio Code
- Notepad++
- TextMate
- Panic Nova
- Formative computing experiences
- CHM – Computer History Museum
- Peter
- Timex Sinclair
- Tandy Color Computer
- Tandy 1000sx
- Leading Edge Products computer
- Zeos
- OS/2
- Scott
The Links
- Cascade Lakes Pineapple IPA
- Cascade Lakes Salted Caramel Porter
- Schöfferhofer Pomegranate
- CHM – Computer History Museum
- Leading Edge Products
- Zeos
- OS/2
- Macintosh 128k
- Today in Apple history: Macintosh 512K, aka ‘Fat Mac,’ brings 4x memory
- Mac Plus
- Packard Bell Pentium 60 PC
- Netcom Netcruiser
- NETCOM NetCruiser (Version 2.0) : Netcom On-Line Communication Services : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
- Windows 95
- Windows 95 Turns 25: When Windows Went Mainstream
- Mac mini
- OS X 10.4 Tiger
- MacBook Pro
- FriendsWBrews
- Friends With Brews Podcast
Episode 32 • Tripping Fences
Is Peter real, or is he just a voice synthesis dream? All the GPTs, Scott hates bad drivers, Peter's running shoe obsession, and lots of Apple Watch failures for both Scott and Peter.
The brew
The Topics
- The Brews
- Bad drivers
- Washington drivers are slow uphill and fast downhill
- Oregon drivers are afraid of curves
- Boston drivers are only afraid of blinkers and stoplights
- Feedback
- How to say Spigen
- The mathematics of Peter’s life
- Peter runs
- Peter’s Apple Watch Ultra
- Playback emo mode
- No cadence, no real-time speed
- Scott’s watchOS issues
- Messages crashes
- Activity notifications are buggy
- The Amazon of Bluetooth
- Emo Philips
- Old School Athletes
- All the GPTs
- MacGPT
- Privacy and OpenAI
- S-GPT
- Petey - iOS AI Assistant
- ChatGPT usage fees
- The AI elephant in the room - LLM training energy consumption
- PeterGPT – a new Peter generated by 11ElevenLabs
The Links
- Urban Family Brewing Co. Yacht Rocket
- Brooklyn Brewery Special Effects Hoppy Amber
- About Us – Spigen Inc
- The Cheap Marathon
- Altra Escalante 2.5
- Altra Men’s Escalante Racer Road Racing Shoe
- Altra Men’s Escalante 3
- Emo Philips
- MacGPT
- Introducing S-GPT, A Shortcut to Connect OpenAI’s ChatGPT with Native Features of Apple’s Operating Systems - MacStories
- Petey - AI Assistant on the App Store
- 11ElevenLabs Prime Voice AI
- FriendsWBrews
- Friends With Brews Podcast