Personal AI with Ken Collins

Bret and Nirmal Mehta are joined by Ken Collins to dig into using AI for more than coding, and if we can build an AI assistant that knows us.

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They touch on a lot of tools and platforms. "We're bit all over the place on this one, from talking about AI features in our favorite note taking apps like Notion, to my journey of making an open AI assistant with all of my Q&A from my courses, thousands of questions and answers, to coding agents and more."

Ken is a local friend in Virginia Beach and was on the show last year talking about AWS Lambda, and we've both been trying to find value in all of these AI tools for our day to day work.

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★Topics★
The Lifestyle Copilot Blog Post
Serverless AI Inference with Gemma 2 Blog Post

Creators & Guests

• Cristi Cotovan - Editor


• Beth Fisher - Producer


• Bret Fisher - Host


• Ken Collins - Guest


• Nirmal Mehta - Host

• (00:00) - Intro


• (01:26) - AI in Recruitment at Torc


• (03:25) - AI for Day to Day Workflows


• (04:44) - Notion AI and RAG


• (07:20) - Creating Your Own AI Search Solution


• (13:59) - Choosing the Right LLM for the Job


• (20:55) - Personal AI and Long Context Windows


• (25:10) - Future of Personal Fine-Tuned Models


• (25:52) - AI Assistants in Meetings


• (27:34) - Temperature and AI Hallucinations


• (32:07) - Agents and Tool Integration


• (39:31) - Apple Intelligence and Personal AI


• (44:56) - AI Apps on Mobile


• (50:00) - LoRA

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