From J2ME, over Bluetooth and Speech Recognition to AI
An airhacks.fm (https://airhacks.fm) conversation with Bruce Hopkins about:
transition from Basic (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BASIC) to Java (https://www.java.com/en/) ,
work on Bluetooth technology and writing a book on Bluetooth for Java,
involvement with Sun Microsystems and Java ME (https://www.oracle.com/java/technolog...) ,
becoming a Java Champion,
shift to AI and natural language processing research,
development of speech recognition and hands-free web navigation systems using pure Java,
use of Hugging Face (https://huggingface.co/) libraries for NLP in 2016,
writing for Linux Magazine about mesh VPNs,
discovery and exploration of ChatGPT (https://openai.com/chatgpt) ,
writing a book on integrating ChatGPT with Java,
shared experiences and parallel paths in Java development,
discussion about Sun Microsystems vs Oracle's approach to Java,
mention of various Java-related technologies like JXTA (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JXTA) ,
Sphinx (https://cmusphinx.github.io/doc/sphin...) ,
FreeTTS (https://freetts.sourceforge.io) , and Dalvik (https://source.android.com/docs/core/...) ,
brief explanation of mesh VPNs and Tailscale (https://tailscale.com/) ,
plans for a future podcast episode (https://airhacks.fm/#episode_104) focused on Bruce's JavaChatGPT (https://javachatgptbook.com/) book
