Hilary and Roger discuss Hilary’s Use R! keynote presentation, LLMs and R, and whether R (or any programming language) has a future. Also, a brief preview of Roger’s JSM 2024 talk.

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Hilary and Roger talk about the commonplace usage of statistics terminology, Apple’s recent AI announcements, and Microsoft’s Recall feature.

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Hilary and Roger discuss limitations of AI image generation and the possibility of replacing both podcast hosts with robots.

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Hilary and Roger discuss the latest AI news, open source Llama, and the prospect of humanoid robots.

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Roger and Hilary talk about a consulting engagement gone wrong and whether there have been any good consulting engagements.

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Hilary and Roger talk about whether it might be better if ChatGPT didn’t give you what you wanted.

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Hilary and Roger discuss what makes a data analytic tool informative for a given problem and Hilary, predictably, gets furious.

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Hilary and Roger ring in the new year with some discussion of AI and data science, Roger’s upcoming spring semester data science course, and some predictions for 2024.

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