Sebastian Raschka is one of the most well known AI authors in the world. He is an AI researcher with a strong passion for education. As Lead AI Educator at Lightning AI, he is making AI more accessible and teaching people how to utilize AI at scale. He's been an Assistant Professor of Statistics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, focusing on deep learning research. You can learn more about him on his website.
In this episode, we cover a range of topics including:
- Framework for writing great books
- State of play in AI research
- AI to analyze protein structure
- Killer apps in AI
- AI infrastructure
- How he chooses tools for his projects
- His outlook on generative AI
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Max Abram is an investor at Scale Venture Partners, a VC firm with investments in companies like HubSpot, Box, DocuSign, and more. He was previously at Kayne Anderson's growth equity group. He holds a degree from the University of Pennsylvania where he was a varsity lightweight rower. He is an endurance athlete, which comes in handy in venture. He spends free time reading fiction and exploring his new home base in the SF Bay Area.
In this episode, we cover a range of topics including:
- Generative AI index
- Use cases he's excited by
- His learnings as an investor
- Trends he's witnessing in the AI market
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Svet Penkov is the cofounder and CEO of Efemarai, a platform to test and improve machine learning code. He is the chairman of the board at AI Cluster Bulgaria. And he has a PhD in Robotics and AI.
In this episode, we cover a range of topics including:
- Why we need ML testing
- ML testing methods
- How did he discover the problem that led to launching Efemarai
- The role of synthetic data in testing
- Edge cases
- Building reliability into ML pipelines
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Where to find Prateek Joshi:
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Sujith Ravi is the founder and CEO of SliceX AI, a platform that allows you to train and deploy AI models across devices and use cases. Previously, he founded and headed multiple ML teams at Google AI and Amazon Alexa. It spanned conversational AI, graph & deep learning, and on-device machine learning technologies. These products are used by billions of people in Search, Ads, Assistant, Gmail, Photos, Android, Cloud, and YouTube. At Google, he invented ML technologies like Smart Reply for conversational AI; Web and Image Search; On-Device ML in Android and Assistant; Neural Structured Learning in TensorFlow; Learn2 Compress for Google Cloud; and TensorFlow Lite for edge devices.
In this episode, we cover a range of topics including:
- How to build ML products
- How to deploy ML on edge devices
- Key constraints of on-device ML
- AI-powered content generation
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Nathan Benaich is the founder of Air Street Capital, a venture capital firm investing in AI-first technology and life science companies. He is the coauthor of State of AI report, an annual report that analyses the most interesting developments in AI. He has degrees from University of Oxford and University of Cambridge.
In this episode, we cover a range of topics including:
- How he got into VC
- How he evaluates AI startups
- His decision making framework for investments
- His views on generative AI
- Legal and copyright issues
- Creating business value with AI
- Future trends in the AI market
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Rob Toews is a partner at Radical Ventures, a VC firm that invests in world's leading AI startups. Rob leads their investment efforts in the San Francisco Bay Area. He was previously at Highland Capital focusing on AI investments. He was in an operational role at Zoox, an autonomous vehicle company that got acquired by Amazon for $1.3B. He is an AI columnist at Forbes. He has a bachelors degree from Stanford. And an MBA and JD from Harvard.
In this episode, we cover a range of topics including:
- How he got into VC
- How he evaluates AI startups
- His decision making framework for investments
- The business of AI
- Generative AI, Large language models, Robotics, and MLOps
- Future trends in AI
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Helen and Dave Edwards are serial entrepreneurs. As a husband and wife team, they have built 5 companies together. They're currently the founders of Sonder Studio, a company focused on helping humans succeed in the digital age. In 2017, they sold their AI market research firm Intelligentsia to Atlantic Media.
In this episode, we cover a range of topics including:
- human centered design
- working as a husband and wife team
- how to bring AI into a business
- company building
- building AI products
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Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com
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Mihail Eric is the founder of Pametan Data Innovation, a consultancy firm that helps companies deliver machine learning and data-driven solutions to their hardest problems with a special focus on NLP, recommendation systems, tabular data, and computer vision. He's also the founder of Confetti AI, the premier educational platform for practitioners learning the skills to succeed in their machine learning and data science careers. It was recently acquired by Towards AI. He has helped start teams at RideOS and Amazon Alexa.
In this episode, we cover a range of topics including:
- What is a prompt and why does it have to be engineered
- The role of signifiers
- The problem of repetitive loops
- LLMs
- Analogies
- Few shot and zero shot prompting
- Biases
- Security issues in LLMs
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Where to find Prateek Joshi:
Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com
Website: http://prateekj.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19
Debarghya Das is the founding engineer at Glean. It's an enterprise search startup that recently raised at a billion dollar valuation from Sequoia, General Catalyst, Kleiner Perkins, and Lightspeed. He has previously held roles at Google and Facebook where he worked on their search products.
In this episode, we cover a range of topics including:
- Key takeaways from being on the founding team
- The 0-1 phase of building products
- Working with early customers
- Opportunities for future search products
- Search quality
- Developing good product sense
- Infusing intelligence into products
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Where to find Prateek Joshi:
Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com
Website: http://prateekj.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19
Andy Petrella is the cofounder of Kensu, a data observability solution that offers companies the opportunity to monitor their data usage. He is the creator of Spark Notebook, an open-source software for data engineers and scientists using Spark and Scala. He is the author of the book Fundamentals of Data Observability. He has built a fantastic career in data over the last 16 years.
In this episode, we cover a range of topics including:
- data observability
- being a founder
- being an author
- creating open source software
- Kensu's unique approach "Data Observability Driven Development"
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Where to find Prateek Joshi:
Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com
Website: http://prateekj.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19
State of play in AI research | Sebastian Raschka, Bestselling AI Author and Educator
41:19
Generative AI Index | Max Abram, Investor at Scale Venture Partners
37:49
ML testing landscape, Edge cases, ML testing methods, The role of synthetic data | Svet Penkov, cofounder of Efemarai
35:29
On-device ML, Generative AI | Sujith Ravi, founder of SliceX AI
46:15
Investing in Generative AI, The role of compute, The State of AI report, Biology | Nathan Benaich, founder of Air Street Capital
44:05
Investing in AI startups, Large Language Models, Robotics, Future of Generative AI | Rob Toews, partner at Radical VC
46:20
Human Centered Design In AI | Helen and Dave Edwards, cofounders of Sonder Studio
1:03:52
Prompt engineering, generative AI | Mihail Eric, founder of Confetti AI and Pametan Data Innovation
45:13
Search engines, the role of ML in enterprise search, 0-1 phase of building products | Debarghya Das, Founding engineer at Glean
42:07
Data observability, creating open source software, being a founder, being an author | Andy Petrella, cofounder of Kensu
38:20