GenAI, Amazon CodeWhisperer, Chatbots and AWS SRA: Talking Cloud

Show Notes

This week’s discussion features various topics around AWS and AI, starting with an AWS news share-out.

The hosts discuss how new coding companions, like Code Whisperer and Code Pilot, can help produce code more efficiently. They also discuss a case where the Air Canada bot gave terrible advice to a customer and the implications of such incidents on AI chatbot usage for businesses.

The hosts delve into AWS’ Security Reference Architecture (SRA) and the use of Amazon Q Business and explore building a contextual chatbot using knowledge bases for Bedrock.

The episode wraps up with a brief discussion on the importance of careful internet exposure in the context of AI.

00:00 Introduction and Casual Banter 00:55 Discussing the WiFi Stove and Cloud-Based Devices 01:36 Technical Difficulties and Software Issues 02:04 Exploring the Gartner Reports 14:50 Analyzing the Code Whisperer 21:12 Prompt Engineering and AI Development 23:56 Discussing an Interesting Article 24:03 Air Canada Bot Miscommunication 25:32 Chatbot Responsibility and Potential Issues 26:26 Chevy Dealership Chatbot Incident 27:11 Exploring Chatbot Exploitation 28:31 Chatbot Security and Guardrails 29:51 Building a Chatbot with Amazon Q 35:50 AWS Security Reference Architecture 40:09 Cross Account Sharing of Advanced Tier Parameters 43:59 Building a Contextual Chatbot using Knowledge Bases for Bedrock 49:10 Wrapping Up and Parting Thoughts

Links from today’s episode

• Amazon CodeWhisperer improves developer productivity
• Gartner Cloud Service Provider Magic Quadrant
• Air Canada chatbot found responsible
• Prompt Engineering for Amazon CodeWhisperer
• Amazon Security Reference Architecture
• Systems Manager Parameter Store
• AWS Blog - build a chatbot
• Mistral IA models - coming soon to AWS