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

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.