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ClarisTalk AIAI Impact on work, workers and jobsMatt and Cris review the AI focus of Engage in Austin TX, and weave in the main subject: The impact AI has on work, workers and jobs, and where it's headed. Cris referred to this video: Shopify CEO Tobi Lutke told employees in a memo that artificial intelligence is making its way across the company, including when it comes to hiring.https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/07/shopify-ceo-prove-ai-cant-do-jobs-before-asking-for-more-headcount.htmlOne of the videos Cris showed was https://www.llama.com/events/llamacon/2025/Then, Matt referred to Russell's Teapot about the burden of pr...2025-05-071h 24
ClarisTalk AILive at CodeWave in Valencia, Spain – Javier Durá & Doug WallisWhile presenting a JSON and Beyond session at the CodeWave conference in Spain, I had the chance to sit down with Javier Durá and Doug Wallis.Javier of Afterdata and Jesús Sánchez of dbFile have been hosting this conference for years to serve the large and healthy FileMaker community in Spain. There were 61 people at the conference this year, and about 10 of us were non-native Spanish speakers. Sessions were in either English or Spanish, and all are welcome. The feel of the event was great - lots of time to socialize and meet other members in...2025-04-2845 minClarisTalk AIAlexis Allen and Matt talk about Engage and Elevate FM conferencesAlexis Allen teaches design classes at FM Design university and she is hosting a 1 day FileMaker conference in Toronto, with a training day following the conference. The dates are May 26-27 2025.Alexis and Matt talk about Engage with all the AI and other goodness, approaches to design, our collaboration on teaching, and we nerd out a little bit about music. Many in our community are musicians, and the similarities in the two forms are instructive, and I think can lead us to be become better developers. Why? Music is a high art, which requires practice, and is...2025-04-2055 minClarisTalk AIMore talk about Agents with Ian JempsonMatt and Ian talk about running local models, the emergence of Agents, different models for Semantic Search, upcoming conferences, and more.2025-02-261h 00ClarisTalk AIAgents vs. Workflows – with Ronnie RiosAgentic. It's the new thing.Cris and Matt invite Ronnie Rios to talk about upcoming conferences, get deep into a use case that led directly to the cutting edge. It might seem crazy for a mature platform like FileMaker, but this is the BEST time to do what we do. Why? Because of the skills set of solving totally different kinds of problems in different industries with what looks like magic.Here is a fascinating article about the subjecthttps://www.anthropic.com/research/building-effective-agents2025-02-201h 01ClarisTalk AIYear In ReviewShow Notes for Episode 24 :12 Days of OpenAI: https://openai.com/12-days/Gemini 2: https://blog.google/technology/google-deepmind/google-gemini-ai-update-december-2024/Claris Talk +Ai custom GPT: https://chatgpt.com/g/g-iAiq4Ryjv-cl-ris-talk-ai-podcastCrismas Elf: https://youtu.be/lt5ExfcXfocMedia Credits: ELF (https://www.warnerbros.com/movies/elf) +"Pennies from Heaven":(Composer: Arthur Johnston Lyricist: Johnny Burke)Links:OpenAi o1: https://openai.com/o1/Devin: https://github.com/Significant-Gravitas/AutoGPTdevinCursor: https://www.cursor.comOpenAI01 Ten tests: https://youtu.be/iINPTCQWy9EBeyond text Generation: Unleashing The...2024-12-181h 18ClarisTalk AIEngageU Live: Ryan McCann, the Interim CEO of ClarisEpisode 23This just in! Ryan McCann is the interim CEO of Claris, replacing Brad. He has been at Claris a long time and knows the community well. Matt and Ryan talked frankly about many issues including the FileMaker community, how to handle infinite feature requests, and the upcoming Engage conference.2024-11-2916 minClarisTalk AIEngageU Live: Matt talks with Joris Aarts and John RenfrewEpisode 21Joris Aarts and Johan Hedman are the two brilliant minds behind the EngageU conference in Malmö Sweden. This year they had over 200 attendees, and reached many other milestones.Matt sat down with Joris and John Renfrew to talk about their sessions and the conference. Joris did a session on the exciting things coming soon in Claris Studio, and John presented on OData and why it's a great way to integrate and communicate with FileMaker.2024-11-2712 minClarisTalk AIEngageU Live: Matt talks with Romein Van Buren and gets fresh perspectiveEpisode 21Romein was the youngest developer at the conference. He works with his father (who was also there) and also has his own company. Matt enjoyed getting fresh perspective on what FileMaker looks like in Romein's world, which parts he likes best, and how he integrates with it.2024-11-2604 minClarisTalk AIEngageU Live: Talk about database hosting with Joey Grimaldi from ODI TechODI Tech is the oldest of the FileMaker hosting companies, and has been hosting databases since the 90s. Matt and Joey talk about hardware, AWS, SSD tech, AI Hosting, and more.2024-11-2512 minClarisTalk AIChat with Wesley Powell at EnageU in MalmöWesley is the director of Product Engineering, and we talked about some upcoming features in Claris Studio and the new custom layout tools.2024-11-2108 minClarisTalk AIBonus Episode: Matt joins FileMaker DevCast, talks JSONMatt joins the Portage Bay Staff for their FileMaker DevCast podcast to talk about JSON. It was a fun discussion, and their staff are all advanced JSON users, and have religion.Links:DevCasthttps://youtu.be/_h8D-nuweE4?si=_8gbhTF1vQrCpAaUSee Cris Community Live: Jumpstart AI in Claris FileMaker: A step-by-step workshop on OCT 24: https://appleinc.webex.com/appleinc/j.php?MTID=mffff1fbb23023de8065bb335a32bfd8aSee Cris at Claris Engage doing FileMaker and Ai Training Day: https://content.claris.com/claris-engage-2024-registration-communityFollow Cris:2024-10-1858 minClarisTalk AIWhat is Chain of Thought?Show Notes for Episode 17:Links:OpenAi o1: https://openai.com/o1/Reflection: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2303.11366Chain of Thought Prompting Guide: https://www.promptingguide.ai/techniques/cotDevin: https://github.com/Significant-Gravitas/AutoGPTdevinCursor: https://www.cursor.comOpenAI01 Ten tests: https://youtu.be/iINPTCQWy9EAutoGPT: https://github.com/Significant-Gravitas/AutoGPTBabyAGI: https://github.com/yoheinakajima/babyagi/blob/main/docs/inspired-projects.mdBeyond text Generation: Unleashing The Power of Reasoning: https://isolutions.medium.com/large-language-models-beyond-text-generation-unleashing-the-power-of-reasoning-1a00145ca39eLex Fridman Podcast: Aravind Srinivas: https://youtu.be...2024-10-031h 13ClarisTalk AIJoris Aarts & Johan Hedman: EngageU conference in Malmö Sweden/Nov 2024Matt talks with Joris Aarts from ClickWorks and Johan Hedman from Square Moon. We discuss the upcoming Engage U Conference in November 17-19 in Malmö, SwedenThe conference will feature Brad Freitag, Andrew LeCates, Doug Wallis, David Loeb, and Wesley Powell from Claris.We talked about a few speakers including Rob Spearman, Alexis Allen, Ian Jempson, Chris Moyer, Heidi Porter, Charles Delfs, Jan Stieperaere, Nicolás Franco, Osman Cabi (from Türkiye), Rob Speakman, and many more.This year, EnagageU is expecting 250 to 300 attendees, which represents phenomenal growth, and shows a very positive sig...2024-09-1222 min
Everyone Can DesignBonus: Claris Talk AI (the UI/UX Edition) - with Cris Ippolite and Matt NavarreWe’ll be back soon with some more new episodes! But in the meantime, we were recently guests on the “Claris Talk AI” podcast hosted by Cris Ippolite and Matt Navarre.We talked at length about all things AI related to UI/UX, including:A lively discussion about how AI is shaking things up in the design worldInsights into using AI as a research tool and idea generatorThe importance of the human touch in design, even with AI in the mixThoughts on AI-generated UI and its current limitationsListen to this deep-dive into the fascin...2024-08-291h 18ClarisTalk AIAI and Design. Special Guests: Alexis Allen and Matt O'DellFeaturing:Alexis Allen - President and Lead Design Engineer at Hyperspace Data Solutions, Inc., and Founder of FM Design UniversityMatthew O'Dell Senior Manager - Tech Experience Design at Capital OneEveryone Can Design Podcast:https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/everyone-can-design/id1731855846?i=1000654905652Hyperspace Data Solutions: https://www.hyperspacedatasolutions.comFM Design University: https://www.fmdesignuniversity.comMatthew O'Dell: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matto4/Links discussed:Erika Hall: https://abookapart.com/products/conversational-design.htmlJust Ask: Disrupting Business Applications: https://isolutions.medium.com...2024-08-051h 17ClarisTalk AIIs AI Conscious?Ronnie Rios from Claris returns. We talk about Sentience, free will (and the illusion thereof), some great books, and use some StarTrek TNG references that make points. It will be a fun discussion, I promise.Show Notes:"Elementary Dear Data" clips:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8IaUSpAtyk"Measure of Man" clips:https://youtu.be/vjuQRCG_sUw?si=MThgEItlvCjXHmRQhttps://youtu.be/YzxgzxH8UCs?si=7fzL5SPiMtUEojb4https://youtu.be/mGU6C0ojn7s?si=rKBumqR97rkjgQkd"Quality of Life" Clips:https://youtu.be/VZ_cApzODRY?si=NWPsYkzcIm450Q...2024-07-101h 07ClarisTalk AISummary of WWDC and Apple's AI strategy, DotFMP Berlin, The Claristotle learning initiativeShow Notes:Introducing Apple’s on device Foundation models:https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/introducing-apple-foundation-modelsIntuition from iSolutionsAI:http://isolutionsai.com/intuition/Links:Claris Community Live: Learn about AI prompting basics:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQlOu-BIs5USee Cris at Summerfest-Tech “A.I Deployed: Real World Examples” on WED June 26th in Milwaukee:https://www.summerfest-tech.com/summerfest-tech-2024Join the conversation on the Claris AI Learning Initiative (Claristotle) on Discord:https://discord.gg/z5t8GydcBFClaris Community Live — FileMaker 2024 Release:https://appleinc...2024-06-201h 12ClarisTalk AIInsights on AI and FileMaker Development: Interviews with Experts at DotFMP BerlinMatt has conversations with some conference attendees:Jakov Milovanovic – KeeneightChris Moyer – The Moyer GroupStathis Askaridis (Στάθης Ασκαρίδης) – We Know DataVince Menanno – BeezwaxEgbert Friedrich – Founder and producer of dotfmp.berlinLinks:Claris Community Live: Learn about AI prompting basics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQlOu-BIs5USee CRIS at Summerfest-Tech “A.I Deployed: Real World Examples” on WED June 26th in Milwaukee: https://www.summerfest-tech.com/summerfest-tech-2024Join the conversation on the Claris AI Learning Initiative (Claristotle) on Discord: https://discord.gg/z5t8GydcBFClaris Commun...2024-06-111h 04ClarisTalk AISemantic Search is Native in FileMaker 2024! Special Guest: Ronnie RiosShow Notes:New FileMaker 2024 AI release:https://support.claris.com/s/answerview?anum=000041889&language=en_USLinks:Claris Community Live: Learn about AI prompting basics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQlOu-BIs5USee CRIS at Summerfest-Tech “A.I Deployed: Real World Examples” on WED June 26th in Milwaukee: https://www.summerfest-tech.com/summerfest-tech-2024Join the conversation on the Claris AI Learning Initiative (Claristotle) on Discord: https://discord.gg/z5t8GydcBFApple WWDC 2024: June 10th @ 10am PT: https://www.youtube.com/@AppleDeveloperClaris...2024-06-071h 35ClarisTalk AIAre LLMs Just Databases? The Real Story. Plus, Apple AI Predictions for WWDCPredicting Apple’s AI Play:https://medium.com/@isolutions/predicting-apples-a-i-play-719b1c2f91a2LLMs are not Databases:https://www.linkedin.com/posts/crisippolite_ai-activity-7185307614539329536-qVcmLinks:Claris Community Live: Learn about AI prompting basicsThursday, May 30, 2024 8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. PT https://content.claris.com/e/526331/filemaker-ai-webinar-may-30-em/9tt3jn/2284491076/h/dWCQb7JigMR44IFI1zg0nN8VL62pe6LyhRulFcornH4VOTE FOR CRIS: Choose “A.I Deployed: Real World Examples” in this form:https://forms.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=oK8bnQZaME6q6PSf01UuNWvz-PVKTblIoWS40_43STVUNkhPOUc5WjFISUxYU...2024-05-2759 minClarisTalk AIDr. Michael Schuckers on Machine Learning, CoreML, AI, Biometric scanning ...and Fantasy FootballChris and Matt welcome Dr. Michael Schuckers to talk about Machine Learning.Two key aspects of ML are Features and Target: It's more about prediction based on data and different than the LLMs we have been discussing.LISTEN TO THE END FOR SOME CRAZY AI MUSICShow notes:Papers by Dr. Schuckers:https://myslu.stlawu.edu/~msch/papers/BIOSIG2023_EquityTesting_MSchuckers.pdfhttps://www.biometricupdate.com/202401/biometrics-can-be-biased-but-how-biased-researchers-propose-a-rulerClaris Story:https://www.claris.com/customers/stories/building-a-winning-fantasy-football-team-on-data-not-luckFollow Cris: @isolutionsaiwww.isolutionsai.comFollow Matt:w...2024-05-0959 minClarisTalk AIBonus Episode: Gabriel Woodger talks with Matt about amazing uses of AI and also JSON for 3D RenderingMatt talks with Gabriel Woodger about a real-world example of AI to summarize complex invoices and projects so a customer can get a regular update of what's happening, and what is important. A great use case for sure.Also, and just as exciting, he shows incredible use of JSON for 3d rendering of kitchens, live and real-time in FileMaker.Check out his website: https://woodge.co.uk2024-05-0244 minClarisTalk AISpecial Guests: Ernest Koe and Joris AartsWe have two special guests on this episode: Ernest Koe from Proof+Geist, and Joris Aarts from Click Works. Both have presented recently about FileMaker and AI at the Engage Conference, are Platinum partners, and are embracing AI in their organizations.Now see this: filemakerlearningcompanion.comShow notes:Prompt Templates Episode: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/claristalk-ai/id1732288474?i=1000648327014Context Episode: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/claristalk-ai/id1732288474?i=1000650004739Vectors Episode: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/claristalk-ai/id1732288474?i=1000652052708Youtube links:Prompt T...2024-04-2555 minClarisTalk AIVector Databases, Semantic search, and JSONCris and Matt talk about Vector databases, lexical vs. semantic search (and relevance ranking), and upcoming FileMaker conferences in Europe. Matt waxes poetic about JSON and a technique for storing certain types of data in a single, flexible JSON field, rather than having individual fields for everything. Cris recommends a book called 'AI for Good' by Juan M. Lavista Ferres, William B. Weeks, and Brad Smith. (Matt checked, and it's not yet available on Audible or Libby)2024-04-101h 03ClarisTalk AIContext: It's not what you thinkIn this episode, Matt and Cris talk about custom GPTs on ChatGPT Plus and how you can supply them with your own data.They explore that concept further and discuss how the idea of “context” in FileMaker is different from context in AI. They explore some ways of using “retrieval” to provide context in your API calls to AI language models.Then, they talk abut a new movie starring FileMaker:https://a24films.com/films/problemistaThey discuss AI Software engineers and what this could mean to the FileMaker developer community (https://www.cognitio...2024-03-2156 min
ClarisTalk AIClaris Engage – Part 3The last of our three parts. This features deep conversations with two amazing people from Beezwax: Vince Mennano and Julian Nadel.2024-03-0429 min
ClarisTalk AIClaris Talk AI - A new podcast from Matt Navarre and Cris IppoliteMatt and Cris kick things off with a new podcast that will mix discussion about Claris & FileMaker with a strong emphasis on AI. Learn what you can do with ChatGPT, ML, and other AI models, and how much you can get from InsertURL().2024-03-031h 02
ClarisTalk AIClaris Engage – Part 2The second part of a three part series from Claris Engage 2024 in Austin Texas2024-02-2634 min
ClarisTalk AIFileMaker Engage – Part 1Welcome to Claris Talk! It's a new podcast from Matt Navarre. I've been podcasting in FileMaker for over 20 years, and the love continues.2024-02-2007 min
FileMaker Talk - Just talking about FileMakerWhy is this titled ChatGPT, ChatGPT, ChatGPT?Both Matts' have an interesting follow-up conversation with Cris Ippolite of iSolutions about the impacts and future of AI. While there isn't as much specific to FileMaker, the implications of how AI will effect any technologist should not be ignored.2023-02-161h 42FileMaker Talk - Just talking about FileMakerFileMaker & Machine Learning with Cris IppoliteCris Ippolite of iSolutions joins Matt & Matt to discuss the usefulness and utility of machine learning and AI technologies within FileMaker Pro. Never thought you needed them? Think again!2022-04-181h 05FileMaker Talk - Just talking about FileMakerCris Ippolite from iSolutionsMatt Navarre and Cris talk about training, Lynda.com videos, and the Idea to iPad project with Apple stores and FileMaker.2016-12-1245 minFileMaker Talk - Just talking about FileMakerDevcon 2015 ScholarshipNever been to the annual FileMaker Devcon? How about a scholarship? Matt Navarre talks with Cris Ippolite and Molly Connolly about their sponsorship of two passes to the 2015 FileMaker Devcon. Tune in for more information. Visit either http://www.isolutions-inc.com/?p=1997 or http://thorsenconsulting.com/apply-for-a-devcon-2015-scholarship/2015-03-2623 minFileMaker Talk - Just talking about FileMakerHTML 5: Cris IppoliteMatt and Cris talk about HTML 5, Java Script, Java, CSS 3, JSON, and how adding it all up works magic in WebViewers with FileMaker Go.2013-08-0638 min
FileMaker Talk - Just talking about FileMakerFileMakerTalk 005 - Guest Cris Ippolite: Extending Web ViewerMatt Navarre interviews Cris Ippolite from iSolutions during his visit to Portland. Cris discusses extended Web Viewer techniques, going beyond the obvious. This FileMaker feature continues to evolve, and is becoming a layout calculation object. It allows features such as PDF file conversion using this free Adobe tool, and a free java FTP client that allows image uploads similar to SuperContainer from 360Works.2008-11-0229 min