"AI Doesn't Stand for Artificial Intelligence" — Venkat Subramaniam's Take Will Change How You Think About It

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Venkat Subramaniam discusses the concept of AI as Accelerated Inference rather than Artificial Intelligence, reshaping how developers should approach it.

Is AI actually intelligent — or just very fast at guessing based on bad data? Venkat Subramaniam, 40-year programming veteran, educator, and co-founder of Arc of AI, joins the AI Native Dev Podcast to share a perspective that cuts through the hype: AI stands for Accelerated Inference — not Artificial Intelligence. And that reframe changes everything about how developers should use it. In this episode, Venkat unpacks why the speed of AI generation has outpaced our ability to review...

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Host: Tessl

Guest: Venkat Subramaniam

Topics covered

• AI
• Accelerated Inference
• Software Development
• Data Analysis
• Programming

Keywords

• Artificial Intelligence
• AI
• Accelerated Inference
• programming
• data
• software development
• technology

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Arc of AI

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