In this episode, Mike previews his first attempt at using AI to generate introduction music for the podcast. (Spoiler: It's not good.) He talks about different ways that he has used AI to help with his professional and personal projects in the last week, then discusses several articles about AI's potential impact on computer science students and software engineers. He relates his own experience trying to use ChatGPT to build a website and what he has learned from that effort.

Links to articles and tools mentioned in the episode:

• https://buttondown.email/hillelwayne/archive/programming-ais-worry-me 

• https://cacm.acm.org/blogs/blog-cacm/268103-what-do-chatgpt-and-ai-based-automatic-program-generation-mean-for-the-future-of-software/fulltext 

• https://www.vice.com/en/article/jg5xmp/startups-are-already-using-gpt-4-to-spend-less-on-human-coders

• https://boomy.com/ 

• https://boomy.com/s/14289692

In this episode, Michael and Mason talk about why they are interested in artificial intelligence, large language models, and machine learning. They discuss potential pitfalls of technology that can imitate human creativity and the benefits they hope to gain from learning more about the explosion of intelligence that Open AI, Microsoft, Google, and others have unleashed.