Dataset wars, Bark, Kent Beck needs to recalibrate, StableLM & blind prompting is not prompt engineering

The dataset wars are heating up, Bark is a transformer-based text-to-audio model that can generate highly realistic, multilingual speech as well as other audio, Kent Beck needs to recalibrate after using ChatGPT, the team behind Stable Diffusion release a new open source language model & Mitchel Hashimoto weighs in on prompt engineering.

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Timestamps:

(00:00) - Intro
(00:47) - Dataset wars
(02:05) - Bark
(03:07) - Kent Beck
(04:12) - StableLM
(05:05) - Sponsor: Sentry
(06:10) - Blind prompting
(07:12) - Outro

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