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.
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. In fact, tens of thousands of customers trust AWS for machine learning and artificial intelligence services, and the company aims to put ML in the hands of every practitioner with innovative services like Amazon CodeWhisperer, a new ML-powered pair programming tool that helps developers improve productivity by significantly reducing the time to build software applications.
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.
