Highlights from this week’s conversation include:
- Current State of LLMs (1:12)
- Historical Analogy to the iPhone (3:32)
- Limitations of Early iPhones (5:02)
- Comparing LLMs to Historical Technologies (6:08)
- Skepticism About LLM Capabilities (9:11)
- Broad Nature of AI Innovations (10:12)
- User Input Challenges (14:32)
- Transcription and Unstructured Data (16:19)
- Single Player vs. Multiplayer Experiences with LLMs (18:50)
- Revenue Insights from ChatGPT (20:27)
- Contextual Use of LLMs in Development (23:43)
- Implications of Human Involvement (26:15)
- The Role of Human Feedback (29:19)
- Customer Data Management and LLMs (31:25)
- Streamlining Data Engineering Processes (34:24)
- Prototyping Content Recommendations (37:42)
- Summarizing Content for LLMs (39:51)
- Challenges with Output Quality (41:18)
- Data Formatting for Marketing Use (43:20)
- Efficient Workflow Integration (46:20)
- Exploring New Prototyping Techniques (50:56)
- Distance Metrics for Improved Relevance (53:00)
- Improving Search Techniques (56:46)
- Utilizing LLMs in Customer Data (59:15)
- Challenges in Customer Data Processing (1:01:10)
- Final thoughts and takeaways (1:02:12)
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