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ChatGPT For Software Development

Today, I had the incredible opportunity to interview a software developer from Maps72 about the role of ChatGPT in software development, and you’ll have the opportunity to watch it right here:

For a description of the event, I guess you could just read the description that I placed on LinkedIn (Feel free to connect!):

It was my first time hosting an event and a chat like this in a while, and I really enjoyed learning from Rain throughout the course of this rousing conversation. Please enjoy the chat and what it brings, and I hope that you learn a ton from it!

I’ll be trying out a tool that Si Eian (one of my numerous friends from the ChatGPT group) told me about recently, which allows a person to just go right ahead, summarize a piece of work, and then have the takeaways all available and on hand – but if you have the time, I highly recommend that you take the time to listen to Rain and everything that he has to say because he is a consummate professional, a wonderful speaker, and it’s going to give you specifics for how you can level up your software development game in 2023. 🙂

Also, hmm – I know that I was a little bit emo in the post a little earlier today, but trust me when I say that a lot of interesting things are lining up in this world for me for some reason.

I don’t quite know why and I don’t quite know how, but they are somehow – and I’m very happy for it.

Lots of new friends along the way, lots of new joys, and lots of peace that each day is somehow meaningful, educational, a chance to share new things with the world that I would have never imagined having just a while ago 🙂

Cheers and here’s to the next part!!

The Person I Became

You know, when I think back about the person that I was a long time ago, I wonder how I managed to become the person that I am today, and I don’t see that as an exaggeration.

I used to be the kind of person who would dream of becoming an investment banker – that’s the kind of person that I was; I would imagine how it would look like when I ended up working for 12, 13, 14, 15 hours a day, thinking to myself that that was the ideal.

But no, that wasn’t how things turned out.

I changed.

I became someone who wanted to make things happen for himself, to create something from the fabric of essentially nothing.

Why that is? Maybe it was a combination of different things – a combination of watching narcissism and the incessant desire to compare disappear, a sense of entitlement that placed me beyond others fading away, and a few other things that were tied to my identity and who I was in the past.

I’m very happy with the person I’ve become 🙂

ELIZA – The Chatbot That Started It All.

I’ve been doing quite a bit of reading recently to prepare for BiZ Gear Up on the 24th, and part of that led me to read a bit more about the early history of chatbots – I hope you’ll enjoy this one!

We take a brief moment to move away from the hype that is OpenAI‘s ChatGPT, and take a brief intermission as we make a small trip back in time.

Picture this: it’s the year 1966, and a computer scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology‘s Artificial Intelligence Laboratory named Joseph Weizenbaum has just created something remarkable – the world’s very first chatbot: ELIZA.

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Just consider this example of a conversation from Norbert Landsteiner’s 2005 implementation of ELIZA, and you can see what it was capable of.

ELIZA was designed to simulate conversation by responding to typed text with pre-programmed phrases and questions.

But what made ELIZA so special was that it was programmed to mimic the conversational style of a therapist, in particular a Rogerian therapist.

Users could “talk” to ELIZA about their problems and concerns, and the chatbot would respond with empathetic and non-judgmental phrases like “Tell me more about that” or “How does that make you feel?”

It wasn’t just a simple question-and-answer program – it was designed to provide a sense of emotional support and understanding that reflects interestingly on the ways that people derive comfort from self-affirmation.

Weizenbaum didn’t intend for the chatbot to be taken very seriously, calling it a “parody” in his 1976 book “Computer Power and Human Reason”… But the way that the chatbot was received was far from just a parody.

The response to ELIZA was overwhelming.

People were fascinated by this new technology that could seemingly understand and respond to their thoughts and emotions, and the program quickly gained popularity as people tried the chatbot.

But perhaps what’s most remarkable about ELIZA is that it wasn’t just a novelty. Weizenbaum’s creation laid the foundation for decades of research in the field of natural language processing and artificial intelligence.

ELIZA was the first chatbot, but it certainly wouldn’t be the last – and its legacy lives on in the many conversational AI programs we use today, in our Bings, Bards, ChatGPTs, Claudes, and the many more that exist and will exist today.

Can’t wait to see what is to come 🙂