Career Evolution and Management Lessons

Erik Gafni builds AI systems and teams. He founded Eventum AI (https://bit.ly/eventum-ai), an ML consulting company working with high-growth startups. We talked about GenAI projects he worked on, how he built production ML systems, how to scale ML teams, and his journey from biologist to ML researcher.

• Interested in working with Erik: https://bit.ly/erik-consulting

• Erik's LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/erik-gafni-LI

(00:00:00) Introduction

(00:01:59) Is GenAI overhyped?

(00:04:28) Ascent translation with AI

(00:11:58) Social media app with AI

(00:14:00) Stable diffusion model evaluation

(00:15:57) "Consult-to-hire" model

(00:17:35) AI in biotech

(00:22:46) Self-supervised learning

(00:31:22) How he hires people

(00:33:19) Research vs production

(00:35:57) Is AGI coming?

(00:37:30) New trends in GenAI

(00:41:45) Data quality in GenAI

(00:42:58) Philosophy in LLMs

(00:49:48) OpenAI vs Open Source

(00:53:58) Mistakes he made

(00:57:41) How did he get into ML