Spinning up on Postgres & AI with Arda Aytekin | Talking Postgres Ep13
Everywhere you look, people are talking about AI. From Copilot to ChatGPT to Postgres’s powerful AI capabilities (think: pgvector), AI is everywhere. In this episode of the Talking Postgres podcast (formerly called Path To Citus Con*), Arda Aytekin joined Claire and Pino to chat about spinning up on Postgres and AI. Arda shared his origin story in mechanical engineering and data science before walking us through vector databases, pgvector, and azure_ai. Arda is one of the creators of the azure_ai extension, so the conversation delves into the azure_ai integration between Azure Database for PostgreSQL and Azure AI Services. Also discussed (of course) was—Responsible AI.
*[Update: July 2024] Path To Citus Con has been renamed to Talking Postgres. All of the past podcast episodes from Path To Citus Con—now called Talking Postgres with Claire Giordano—can be found here: https://talkingpostgres.com and on this YouTube playlist: https://aka.ms/TalkingPostgres-playlist
Guest Arda Aytekin:
Arda is a senior software engineer on the PostgreSQL team at Microsoft where he has taken an active role in the AI/ML-related efforts on and around Azure Database for PostgreSQL. Arda earned a Ph.D. in asynchronous first-order algorithms for large-scale optimization problems and is a self-described open-source enthusiast.
Chapters:
⏩ 1:45 Arda’s origin story
⏩ 11:11 What is pgvector?
⏩ 19:16 azure_ai extension to Postgres
⏩ 30:22 Responsible AI
⏩ 44:07 Text embeddings
⏩ 50:31 Tips on spinning up on Postgres & AI
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Links mentioned in this episode:
🔹pgvector: https://github.com/pgvector/pgvector
🔹Andrew Kane: https://github.com/ankane
🔹Simon Willison’s Blog: https://simonwillison.net/
🔹Demo of Azure AI & pgvector with Azure Database for PostgreSQL by Claire Giordano: • Demo of Azure AI & pgvector with Azure Dat...
🔹Introducing the azure_ai extension to Azure Database for PostgreSQL by Denzil Ribeiro: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t...
🔹Azure AI Extension, Microsoft Learn: https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/pos...
🔹Vectors are the new JSON in PostgreSQL by Jonathan Katz: https://jkatz05.com/post/postgres/vec...
🔹Responsible AI at Microsoft: https://aka.ms/rai
🔹Andreessen's Corollary: Ethical Dilemmas in Software Engineering by Bryan Cantrill: • Andreessen's Corollary: Ethical Dilemmas i...
🔹Phi-2: The surprising power of small language models by Mojan Javaheripi & Sébastien Bubeck: https://www.microsoft.com/research/bl...
🔹pg_vectorize: https://github.com/tembo-io/pg_vectorize
🔹OpenAI API: https://platform.openai.com/docs/intr...
🔹Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals: Generative AI Training: https://learn.microsoft.com/training/...
🔹ChatGPT Prompt Engineering for Developers: https://www.deeplearning.ai/short-cou...
🔹Andrej Karpathy's keynote @ Microsoft Build 2023: • State of GPT | BRK216HFS
🔹Stanford University CS231n: Deep Learning for Computer Vision: http://cs231n.stanford.edu/
🔹LangChain: https://www.langchain.com/
🔹Towards Data Science: https://towardsdatascience.com/
🔹Generative AI for Beginners: https://github.com/microsoft/generati...
🔹Zero-shot learning: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-sh...
🔹Talking Postgres Ep01: Working in public on open source with Simon Willison & Marco Slot: https://talkingpostgres.com/episodes/...
🔹The Art of PostgreSQL by Dimitri Fontaine, get 15% OFF with CLAIRE15: https://theartofpostgresql.com/
🔹Talking Postgres Ep08: Solving every data problem in SQL w/Dimitri Fontaine & Vik Fearing: https://talkingpostgres.com/episodes/...)
🔹Arda Aytekin at PGDay Chicago 2024 on April 26: https://postgresql.us/events/pgdaychi...
🔹CFP for POSETTE: An Event for Postgres 2025 open until Feb 9, 2025: https://posetteconf.com/2025/cfp/
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