Pod. Well cool, making your own Video Page

I spent too much time getting my YouTube playlists in order, but its useful to have booked marked tutorials and things since so much content is there now.

The basic WordPress supports in the Guttenberg Block Editor, just the embedding of a single YouTube Video. You just copy a link in and it appears which is great! The name of this Block is called YouTube or if you want your entire channel, then you can use the Smash Balloons one.

I have the Smash Balloons plugin but this only supports channels and not Playlist for free, and it works great to host our YouTube Channel and it is called YouTube Feed and it lets you have your personal channel page. This is basically all your playlists accumulated in one place and you then get a shortcode. Or you can use the Gutenberg Block, Feeds for YouTube.

Rich Tong's AI Hub

The Excellent Adventures of Tong with co-hosts Paul, Deon and Steven. Covering current tech news and analysis. As well as regular updates on all things Apple, Smart Home, Smart Everyday Carry, Hime Theater, Linux, Startups, Robotics and Artificial Intelligence

The London Stock Exchange Group had a Tech Summit on 21 October 2024, as part of that we had an AI Hub breakout with 40 technologies and business leaders focused on what is up next technical with AI in the Enterprise

(Video: Zoom to Final Cut Pro to Compressor as Apple Devices 4K HEVC 10-bit, HLG, Dolby Vision 8.4)

RT6. TNE3. LSEG Tech Summit AI Hub 2024-10-21

There's been a hiatus mainly because we've been shipping products, but more because I lost all my skills at making new videos. I was stuck for a long time on Drop Zones and doing a better intro and outro, but that's a digression for Final Cut Pro nerds. (Note that the ST1a version has a bug fix for the intro video, but is otherwise identical to ST1.)

In this episode, we cover the latest trends as of August 8, 2024, on AI and the latest trends. The big news has been the shipment of so many Large Language Models (LLMs) and what it means for AI which is way more choice and confusion.

Plus the emergence of a much better set of tools that are much smaller as well called Small Language Models (SLM sometimes) and also Agents that are chopping the problem into many small pieces.

I also wanted to introduce Steven to the mix, we are going to have a rotating set of co-hosts and solo episodes as well so we can get the content out on time and not take 6 weeks for post productions. Thanks to the new intro and outro, that should be easier. I'm playing with these a bunch, but check out https://tongfamily.com and https://tne.ai where I hang out a bunch!

Spotify podcast version at https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/richt/episodes/ST1--August-Update-on-AI-2024-08-28-e2pcufa and Youtube at https://youtu.be/gqGD5_LxLL0

ST1a. AI Predictions Diamonds 1-3 – 2024-08-08 [4K HEVC HDR PQ 10-bit]

Note: The ST1 version is identical, the intro video has an adjusted icon size and it is shorter. I just couldn't take not having this bug fix.

There's been a hiatus mainly because we've been shipping products, but more because I lost all my skills at making new videos. I was stuck for a long time on Drop Zones and doing a better intro and outro, but that's a digression for Final Cut Pro nerds.

In this episode, we cover the latest trends as of August 8, 2024, on AI and the latest trends. The big news has been the shipment of so many Large Language Models (LLMs) and what it means for AI which is way more choice and confusion.

Plus the emergence of a much better set of tools that are much smaller as well called Small Language Models (SLM sometimes) and also Agents that are chopping the problem into many small pieces.

I also wanted to introduce Steven to the mix, we are going to have a rotating set of co-hosts and solo episodes as well so we can get the content out on time and not take 6 weeks for post productions. Thanks to the new intro and outro, that should be easier. I'm playing with these a bunch, but check out https://tongfamily.com and https://tne.ai where I hang out a bunch!

Spotify podcast version at https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/richt/episodes/ST1--August-Update-on-AI-2024-08-28-e2pcufa and Youtube at https://youtu.be/gqGD5_LxLL0

ST1. AI Predictions Diamonds in the Rough. 2024-08-08

Alex Tong's Thesis the last half excerpt

Alex Tong's Thesis Defense Excerpt – Screen Recording 2021 08 25 at 12 34 44 PM

This is another sort of nerdy side note. If anyone is still watching, this section is just to give intuition on the basics of the hardware. There are lots of assumptions about GPUs and CPUs that I wanted to make sure people understood.

But the basics are that CPUs are tuned for lots of branches and different workflows, while GPUs are tuned for lots of the same things like matric math. And because they are so fast, most of the job of the computer folks is "feeding the beast". That is caching the most frequently used information so they don't have to wait.

There are some errors I think in the levels of the CPU and GPU performance particularly in the cache performance as it is not very clear how this works and the results of course vary depending on the models of processors, so these are all approximations. Put in comments better sources. I have all the sources listed in a spreadsheet that is part of this. We are happy to send this to anyone who wants the source data. I'll fix these errors in later editions (as I'm obsessive that way).

Also, I'm quite proud of the HDR mix, using the latest OBS settings, producing in HDR in Final Cut Pro, and adjusting the video scope levels helps. The audio is a little hot and I'm sorry about that, I'll turn it down next time, I stoo much time in the red. My Scarlett needs to about 1 O'clock and it works.

See https://tongfamily.com/2024/03/08/pod-rt3-ai-hardware-introduction/ for details and https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/richt/episodes/RT3--AI-Hardware-Introduction-e2gr9ad for the podcast version

Chapters:
00:00 AI Hardware Introduction
00:42 Computer Engineering in Two Slides
05:40 It's 165 Years to a Disk Access?!!
14:12 Intel Architecture CPU
17:03 What's all this about NVidia
25:24 And now for something completely Different, Apple
29:45 Introduction summary

2024-03 -08. Shot as UHD HEVC HDR PQ 10 bit using OBS Studio and Final Cut Pro

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RT3. AI Hardware Introduction

OK, we are not experts nor PhDs so most of this is probably not technically correct, but the math is so complicated and the concepts so complicated, that we thought it would be good to just get some intuition on what is happening. So this is a quick talk that summarizes readings from so many different sources about the history of AI from the 1950s all the way to January 2024 or so.

It is really hard to keep up but much harder without some intuition about what is happening. We cover expert systems, the emergence of neural networks, Convolution Neural Networks, and Recurrent Neural Networks. The Attention is All You Need paper led to Transformers and then finally some intuition on how such a simple idea, that is training on things can lead to emergent and unexpected behaviors, and finally, some intuition on how Generative images work.

Also I apology is that there is a lot of brushing over, over the section on embeddings is not quite right, particularly for visual transformers, we will correct that, but the concept of embeddings is still important there, just not quite correctly explained. Sorry!

Chapters:
00:00 AI History
09:07 Neural Networks Weights
11:18 Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs)
16:07 Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs)
17:57 Embedding Vectors are the key!
23:25 Attention is all you need Transformers
27:36 But it's too Simple! Emergence is surprising
33:04 What emerges inside a Transformer?
43:01 One Model to Rule Them All
47:54 Works for Image generation too

DT6. AI Intro and Intuitions 2024-03-07

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The third Plugin I tried is the Embed which as a huge number of settings (pretty scary) as YouTube Free plugin and then you get a Gutenberg Block called YouTube Wizard and it is much more flexible than Smashing Balloons, you can include Playlists like this one for Alex: