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The Death of Classical Computer Science • Matt Welsh & Julian Wood

1d ago 46:07

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Matt Welsh - Head of Al Systems at Palantir
Julian Wood - Serverless Developer Advocate at AWS
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DESCRIPTION
Matt Welsh, former professor at Harvard University and AI researcher, argues to Julian Wood that we're witnessing the death of classical computer science as language models evolve into general-purpose computers capable of direct problem-solving without human-written code.
He envisions a future where AI eliminates programming barriers, democratizing computing power so anyone can instruct computers through natural language. While acknowledging concerns about job displacement and societal equity, Matt believes this transformation will unleash unprecedented human creativity by putting the full power of computing in everyone's hands, moving beyond the current "programming priesthood" to universal access to computational problem-solving.
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Chapters

1. Intro (00:00:00)

2. LLMs as the new computers (00:01:03)

3. The future of language models: From silos to integration (00:06:46)

4. Open Source models & the democratization of AI (00:11:54)

5. From programming priesthood to universal computing (00:18:23)

6. Challenges & concerns (00:30:09)

7. Outro (00:45:31)

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The Death of Classical Computer Science • Matt Welsh & Julian Wood

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