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Figure.AI where Robots meet LLMs

We explore the synergy of humanoid robots and LLM AI. This episode delves into how robots can learn and interpret their environment in human-like ways, based on a key video listed below. Whether or not you view the video, the discussion offers deep insights into AI’s evolving role in human interaction.

Transcript: otter.ai/u/VqiTSDMDLAKcaF1XuA…?utm_source=copy_url

References:
youtu.be/Sq1QZB5baNw?si=dAxLQIws3xkra_mf
spectrum-ieee-org.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/sp…410624
arxiv.org/abs/2402.17764v1
www.emergentmind.com/papers/2402.17764

Dishing on Apple’s Vision Pro

We delve into spatial computing today and discuss Apple’s Vision Pro face computer. Everyone in the club2030 group is very interested in augmented reality and virtual reality, and the release of thApple Vision Pro, seems to meet many thresholds that make us surprisingly optimistic about its potential.

We discuss aspects we like as well as what we thought was going to be a challenge. Whether you are already watching this space or are new to this concept of a spatial computer from Apple, you’ll get a lot out of this conversation.

Resources:
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/rainbows-end-vernor-vinge
www.tomsguide.com/reviews/rabbit-r1

Transcript: otter.ai/u/h61-B-2G9RdWT4gQug…?utm_source=copy_url

Reflecting On Our 2023 Podcasts

Let’s celebrate the work that we’ve done as a community in the Cloud2030 group this year, and talk about some really exciting things we have planned for next year for 2024.

It’s remarkable to look back on how this podcast has evolved from a meeting place during COVID, as a place where we could have those hallway tracks that we had been missing, into something that is really discussing technology at the forefront. The forefront of not just tech, but actually of the human and business implications of that technology.

Transcript: otter.ai/u/d4Rq_a_tdyihTp5Eyz…?utm_source=copy_url
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Business Value of Platform Engineering

https://soundcloud.com/user-410091210/business-value-of-platform-engineering

Platform engineering is quite buzzy and has a lot of hype at the moment.

Today we dug behind the hype to acknowledge how the term is being used and misused. We cover why this is a topic of interest, how it’s driving customer thinking around operations and development teams, how it’s working to establish standard operating procedure around infrastructure and operations to support a business, and how those needs drive the evolution of our technology, infrastructure and design thinking.

Transcript: otter.ai/u/GksMnMIZV0cyM6iwWj…?utm_source=copy_url
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Rob’s Hot Take:

In the Cloud 2030 podcast episode on platform engineering, Rob Hirschfeld highlights the evolution of IT from bespoke and custom practices towards standardized operations. He emphasizes the need for easier-to-use systems that conform to standard practices, enabling businesses to optimize and scale infrastructure more efficiently. Hirschfeld discusses the challenges of unique and non-standardized operations within organizations, leading to scalability issues and touches on the broader trend driving platform engineering. He encourages listeners to explore the full conversation on the Cloud 2030 channel and engage in further discussions at 2030.cloud.

Topics of the Day [Rogers, Twitter, GDPR, JWST]

Today, we sat down and talked about current events and how things are going. We don’t need to have an agenda to have a really interesting conversation, and that is exactly what happens!

We start with some current events, the Rogers outage, Elon Musk, Twitter, GDPR, and
the Jim’s West space telescope. Then we put those things together into common threads about automation, autonomous cars and how society interacts with these things.

If you’re looking for deep tech, this is not your podcast. Otherwise, enjoy listening to this casual conversation!

Transcript: otter.ai/u/9ZNfCBMTueZw1ZOTJHY_e3DeZkQ
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Will CSPs Be The New OPEC

What happens in the age of cloud scarcity, and are the major public clouds going to become our next OPEC, where they regulate and control prices to such a degree that they can float things up and down?

In doing that, does that mean that cloud computing has become a commodity that can be traded and bought from different providers with a marketplace? All of these questions and more are on our minds as we think about how the market for compute will evolve in the future. Is there a coming compute scarcity based on greenhouse gas or silicon limitations or the ability to generate power? All of these things could have major impacts on how we make choices to consume compute.

In our discussions, a lack of resources is not the driving factor that we see – it’s more about the market power of providers.

Transcript: otter.ai/u/nHY8KLgcaNbu_hp6TJkKMOgMpFI
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Implementing Biometric Privacy at the Camera?

We start talking about conferences using biometric security, edge detection, and included your right to be forgotten.

In this fascinating conversation, we go into future projections of what it’s going to take for people get privacy including the idea of using AI so face are left out the photographs! Would be possible? If so, what would drive that as potential thing.

We started it humorously thinking about all the cameras and all the biometrics that could be collected during AWS reinvent, which a lot of us will be at, at least in the shadows.

Transcript: otter.ai/u/fqYayHreB9FVPt2SzFFSMu7QAgo
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Nextgen Servers? IPU & SmartNICs

IPUs, intelligent processing units, are also known as smart NICs, side cars, or supervisory computers. A well known example is Amazon’s Nitro. We discuss the impacts of these supervisory processors, and how they can change the industry.

This is clearly the trend of the future. Building supervisory systems as additional processing capability into our core servers that then abstract out how the bus is interfaced how the routine peripherals, network activity, GPU or storage is abstracted in these systems.

BUT will they create a new way to manage heterogeneity and diversity inside of our hardware and server ecosystems? Can they have a dramatic impact on edge computing?

Transcript: otter.ai/u/NXx-LgMzI5jEmP2irldOwGpeKlg
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Software Right to Repair? Is that OSS?

The “right to repair” is a really thorny and political issue! We talked a lot about John Deere, Apple and Tesla not letting people fix the products they’ve bought from those companies.
We have a lot of questions! Why they do that? What the challenges are with RTR? How we could avoid them? What pressures keep us coming back to companies that are offering goods that we don’t have the ability to repair?

Transcript: otter.ai/u/mDxnSfDXWqKOFA5Gbw8rG6TkDkE
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Will Cloud Economics disrupt Hyperscalers?

How can cloud economics of hyperscalar clouds be used to ended or limit their control? We discussed the state of the cloud ecosystem with a focus on where its going to go. After a full, rich, and dynamic conversation, we came back to security security, software (as opposed to SaaS), owning your own infrastructure, and the ROI of that infrastructure.

Transcript: otter.ai/u/Y7ZO7Y6e0JQr5Wz4hOWyyMRsGb8
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