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Microsoft Ignite with Lori Beck
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Podcast Episode! Microsoft Ignite with Lori Beck
James and I spoke with our highly-esteemed colleague Lori Beck about the recent Microsoft Ignite virtual conference. Lori leads our Microsoft consulting practice, and has great depth of knowledge and insight into Microsoft Dynamics. We had a great time talking about Logic Apps, Power Apps, Teams, and OpenAI GPT-3 (find below the poem that the AI wrote for us).
Highlights
- I love the Ignite book-of-news feature. Super slick. Other companies should absolutely copy this.
- Power Apps pay-as-you-go plan, making things palatable for a certain class of customer
- Dynamics SCM
- Azure Communication Services now more tightly wound with other things, like Teams — and getting SMS short codes
- Logic Apps can now run fully disconnected in Azure Arc
- OpenAI ALL THE THINGS! New Azure OpenAI Service, Power Automate helper, GitHub Copilot (not part of Ignite but too cool not to mention)
- Listen to me nerd out for like 10 minutes straight on GPT-3.
Money Quotes
Lori
Collaboration and presence awareness and that kind of interactivity, even among developers, is increasing everywhere.
They’re doing everything they can to break down silos in the enterprise.
James
At the end of the day, the customer wins here. In a big way.
The story of ERP up to now has been: I enter the transaction of whatever I’m going to do, and then I turn around and do the real thing [in some other system or platform].
Paul
Red Vines are superior to Twizzlers in every way.
I would estimate that the chances are that almost all of us have read a piece of content GPT-2 or GPT-3 generated, and not known that it was.
OpenAI Enhanced Poetry
Below is the poem I generated from the OpenAI API with GPT-3. Above the dashes is the original poem, and below the dashes is what GPT-3 output.
And what it generated still kinda haunts me.
i shall imagine life, a poem by ee cummings (augmented by GPT-3)
i shall imagine life
is not worth dying, if
(and when) roses complain
their beauties are in vain
but though mankind persuades
itself that every weed's
a rose, roses (you feel
certain) will only smile
------------
to better days
and there are, you are sure,
no better days to dream
about
and there are, you are sure,
no better days to bring
about
and there are, you are sure,
no better days to lie
about
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