AI-Powered Peer Programming with Vasi Philomin

EPISODE 594
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OCTOBER 10, 2022
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About this Episode

Today we’re joined by Vasi Philomin, vice president of AI services at AWS, joins us for our first in-person interview since 2019! In our conversation with Vasi, we discussed the recently released Amazon Code Whisperer, a developer-focused coding companion. We begin by exploring Vasi’s role and the various products under the banner of cognitive and non-cognitive services, and how those came together where Code Whisperer fits into the equation and some of the differences between Code Whisperer and some of the other recently released coding companions like GitHub Copilot. We also discuss the training corpus for the model, and how they’ve dealt with the potential issues of bias that arise when training LLMs with crawled web data, and Vasi’s thoughts on what the path of innovation looks like for Code Whisperer. At the end of our conversation, Vasi was gracious enough to share a quick live demo of Code Whisperer, so you can catch that here.

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Vasi Philomin

Amazon

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Thanks to our sponsor Amazon Web Services

You know AWS as a cloud computing technology leader, but did you realize the company offers a broad array of services and infrastructure at all three layers of the machine learning technology stack? AWS has helped more than 100,000 customers of all sizes and across industries to innovate using ML and AI with industry-leading capabilities and they’re taking the same approach to make it easy, practical, and cost-effective for customers to use generative AI in their businesses. At the bottom layer of the ML stack, they’re making generative AI cost-efficient with Amazon EC2 Inf2 instances powered by AWS Inferentia2 chips. At the middle layer, they’re making generative AI app development easier with Amazon Bedrock, a managed service that makes pre-trained FMs easily accessible via an API. And at the top layer, Amazon CodeWhisperer is generally available now, with support for more than 10 programming languages.

To learn more about AWS ML and AI services, and how they’re helping customers accelerate their machine learning journeys, visit twimlai.com/go/awsml.

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