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

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