Episodi

  • Episode #1: Chatting About ChatGPT

    Episode #1: Chatting About ChatGPT
    Oct 9 2023
    For our first episode, let’s talk about a new kid on the block: ChatGPT. ChatGPT, created by an organization called OpenAI, is new-ish. I say ish because the technology it’s built on actually is not so new. ChatGPT is doing something seemingly pretty simple. Learn more in this episode! Check out our LinkTree at linktr.ee/whatthetechpod for website transcripts and sources.
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    11 min
  • Episode #2: Who's Afraid of the Big Black Box?

    Episode #2: Who's Afraid of the Big Black Box?
    Oct 16 2023
    There’s this idea that you give a machine learning model a dataset and it spits something out. We talked about this in terms of ChatGPT - it’s consuming a huge amount of data, learning any connections in that data, and then figuring out how to respond to new data based on those connections. But, beyond being given the data, how is it trained exactly? How is it figuring out if two pieces of data have a relationship? How does it then generalize to future situations? That’s exactly what we’ll be talking about today.
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    11 min
  • Episode #3: I Speak For the (Decision) Trees

    Episode #3: I Speak For the (Decision) Trees
    Oct 23 2023
    We’ve talked pretty extensively about what machine learning is in these past few episodes. We’ve reviewed the use cases of machine learning, the awesome things it can do, and some of its limitations. But, I want to give us a deep dive into decision trees - which serve as the basis of how many machine learning models make decisions. We’ll also explore a very interesting question - how does a machine brain compare to a human brain?
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    13 min
  • Episode #4: Zombies Love These - Neural Networks

    Episode #4: Zombies Love These - Neural Networks
    Oct 30 2023
    How do neural networks work, and WHY are they often compared to a human brain? Find out in this episode. Welcome back to this spooky episode and our last episode in volume 1 - we've extensively covered machine learning models throughout this month, and next month we'll dive deeper into computer architecture.
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    9 min
  • Episode #5: A Byte-Sized Intro to Computers

    Episode #5: A Byte-Sized Intro to Computers
    Nov 6 2023
    We all have a vague understanding of what a computer looks like, sort of what it does, but what makes a computer a computer? Keep listening to learn more.
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    10 min
  • How Did We Go From the ENIAC to Our Fun-Sized Phones?

    How Did We Go From the ENIAC to Our Fun-Sized Phones?
    Nov 20 2023
    We are back with another episode about how on earth we went from a massive computer that took up a ROOM to our itty-bitty cellphones. ⭐ What the Tech Is Going On?! is a podcast created, edited, and published by Jesse Anderson. It was created to provide free, easily-digestible technology education on the systems changing our world.
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    9 min