Episode 8.74: APIs -what they are, why they matter, and what they do for chatGPT and siblings.

Understanding APIs in terms of simple human interfaces with much more complex systems, and how that works in relation to computers and particularly artificial intelligences like our chatbot. We consider the implications of the relationship between chatGPT and things websites Zapier and Wolfram Alpha, and what this means as a staging-post on the path towards artificial general intelligence.