High Agency: The Podcast for AI Builders
Inventing the AI Engineer
Jun 25, 2024
Shawn Wang discusses the essence of an AI engineer post his viral essay 'Rise of the AI Engineer', emphasizing skills, team structures, and trends in AI research. Topics include vertical vs. horizontal AI startups, advice for AI product creators, tools for AI products, and key AI trends. The conversation explores the evolution of roles in AI engineering, the AI Engineering World Fair, vertical AI startups, trends in AI capabilities and costs, and the creativity in AI models.
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- AI engineers crucial in zero to one phase, emphasize product thinking and model implementation.
- Trends in AI cover data, GPUs, model types, and operations for competitive success.
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AI Engineer Role Distinction
The AI engineer role is essential in the zero to one phase of AI projects, distinct from ML engineers who operate in the one to M phase. This distinction emphasizes the need for specialized skills in product thinking and model implementation.
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