181: Generative AI and Developers with Sridhar Raghavan

<p dir="ltr">Listen in as Sridhar Raghavan, a Senior Director of Product Management at Salesforce, shares his journey from working in speech recognition two decades ago to generative AI today. We explore his early memories of playing Pac-Man on his dad's computer in the mid-90s, his break from Salesforce to pursue his own startup, and his strategy to get kids away from digital devices and into reading with AI.</p> <p dir="ltr">Discover how Salesforce is pushing the boundaries of AI-assisted code generation for developers. We discuss parameter sizes, Salesforce's open-sourced 16 billion parameter model, and the importance of customizing and updating language models. Learn about the GPT (Generative Pre-Trained Transformer) acronym and how it is used to create the wiring necessary for a language model to become a learning engine. </p> <p dir="ltr">Don't miss this fascinating conversation with Sridhar Raghavan!</p> <p dir="ltr"><strong>Show Highlights:</strong></p> <ul> <li dir="ltr" role="presentation">Sridhar's strategy to get kids away from digital devices and into reading and how AI can help make reading more fun and engaging.</li> <li dir="ltr" role="presentation">How Salesforce open-sourced a 16 billion parameter model.</li> <li dir="ltr" role="presentation">The importance of customizing and updating language models.</li> <li dir="ltr" role="presentation">What the open source project CodeGen is and how it is used to generate code in six popular programming languages.</li> <li dir="ltr" role="presentation">How Salesforce is enhancing CodeGen to generate Apex code, LWC, and flows.</li> </ul> <p dir="ltr"><strong>Links:</strong></p> <ul> <li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"> <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">Sridhar on LinkedIn: <a href= "https://www.linkedin.com/in/sridharraghavan/">https://www.linkedin.com/in/sridharraghavan/</a></p> </li> </ul> <p> </p>