Hex

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0 statements across 0 episodes · 1 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jun 2, 2023 by Barry McArdle · said 11 times in 2 episodes since 2023 · across every show →

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Jun 2, 2023
Insight
Barry McArdle: Context building and model chaining are AI's hardest work
“And I think that is really actually the hard work in many ways of Incorporating AI into your product, right? Like it feels really simple. Like you can go get an API. Anyone listening to this today could go to the open air website and get an API key. It's every…”
Barry McArdle Jun 2, 2023 ▶ 25:41 Embedded AI: The Questions Every CEO is Asking
Jun 2, 2023 positive
Disclosure
Barry McArdle: Hex does not use customer code to train AI models
“We're not using it to train models. I should be very clear. Like that's one thing we've been very upfront with our customers about, like we're not training models where they would expect to ever have like some code they've written be a completion for someone e…”
Barry McArdle Jun 2, 2023 ▶ 27:52 Embedded AI: The Questions Every CEO is Asking
Jun 2, 2023 neutral
Insight
Barry McArdle: Passing too much context into LLM prompts confuses the model
“I think we've been, we were tempted early on to try to shove as much context as we could in. You kind of figure like the more I can tell this model, the better. And you realize you can pretty easily confuse a model in terms of the amount of context you're pass…”
Barry McArdle Jun 2, 2023 ▶ 25:04 Embedded AI: The Questions Every CEO is Asking
Jun 2, 2023 neutral
Prediction Held up
Barry McArdle: Hex enforces a rule to never automatically run AI code
“We have a rule as we're building these features. It's like, we don't run the code for you. Like we will generate the code. We will show it to you, but we want to keep the human in the loop.”
Barry McArdle Jun 2, 2023 ▶ 23:35 Embedded AI: The Questions Every CEO is Asking
Jun 2, 2023 neutral
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Barry McArdle: AI foundation models and API calls are already commodities
“I think the models themselves and being able to send a request to one of them is, is already a commodity.”
Barry McArdle Jun 2, 2023 ▶ 27:32 Embedded AI: The Questions Every CEO is Asking
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