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Latent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast — Practitioners talking LLMs, CodeGen, Agents, Multimodality, AI UX, GPU Infra and all things Software 3.0

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Dec 8, 2023 • 1h 4min

The Busy Person's Intro to Finetuning & Open Source AI - Wing Lian, Axolotl

Wing Lian, AI expert, talks about fine-tuning in open source AI models and its purposes. They discuss evaluating different AI models and the challenges of larger models. The concept of fine-tuning before or after RLHF models is explored. Importance of rules, documentation, and optimizing training data is emphasized. Axolotl's roadmap and vision for becoming a developer-first platform are discussed.
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Nov 29, 2023 • 52min

Notebooks = Chat++ and RAG = RecSys! — with Bryan Bischof of Hex Magic

Bryan Bischof, data science and AI expert, talks about the advantages of notebooks as AI interfaces, Hex Magic's 'Chat++'. They discuss the challenges and evolution of AI capabilities, the concept of AI UX, the applications of RAG in text and tabular data, and the value of reading technical books. They also touch on their passion for walking, reflections on LLMs, and the importance of integrating AI tools into everyday life.
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Nov 17, 2023 • 53min

The State of Silicon and the GPU Poors - with Dylan Patel of SemiAnalysis

Dylan Patel, a technology analyst, joins the podcast to discuss the state of the GPU market and the concept of 'GPU poor' vs 'GPU rich'. They delve into the GPU shortage and future forecasts for NVIDIA and AMD. The episode also explores the importance of efficient infrastructure for tech giants, metrics in machine learning training, Noam Chizir's work, AI hardware startups, Apple's capabilities, and innovations in AI.
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Nov 8, 2023 • 2h 22min

AGI is Being Achieved Incrementally (DevDay Recap - cleaned audio)

Speakers discuss OpenAI Dev Day, highlighting new features and updates. They talk about AI vision technology and examples of its use. They discuss limitations of AI models and tokenizing images. Whisper 3 model is announced and startup integration is discussed. Exciting announcements about the API are highlighted. Speakers discuss the launch of AI actions and interview Louis Knightwood, CEO of Blue BI. The importance of context length and model evaluation is discussed. They explore API usage, challenges in self-driving cars, and the mission of OpenAI. They recap an art museum and club party with Open AI presence. The discussion on the commitment to open source and experience at a Dev Day event is shared. They talk about speed improvement and multiple function calling in Chat GPT. They discuss generating React and HTML components using Julius.
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Nov 8, 2023 • 2h 23min

AGI is Being Achieved Incrementally (OpenAI DevDay w/ Simon Willison, Alex Volkov, Jim Fan, Raza Habib, Shreya Rajpal, Rahul Ligma, et al)

OpenAI DevDay exceeded expectations with announcements including ChatGPT, GPT4 Turbo, GPT Builder, APIs for Dall-E 3, GPT4 Vision, Code Interpreter and Text to Speech. The podcast also discusses the distinction between GPTs and the assistance API, renaming of positions, creating custom GPTs, AI vision capabilities, OpenAI's assistant API and GPT App Store, challenges of monetization, copyright issues, exploration of API capabilities, self-driving cars, the future of programming, and new research and open source models.
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Nov 3, 2023 • 1h 7min

Beating GPT-4 with Open Source LLMs — with Michael Royzen of Phind

Michael Royzen from Phind discusses their goal of helping developers find answers to technical questions and implement them. They also talk about the evolution of the search system, limitations of GPT, and the impact of GPT-4. Additionally, they share their journey of building an enterprise product and their experience with different models like Hug Me Face and Longformer.
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Oct 26, 2023 • 39min

Powering your Copilot for Data – with Artem Keydunov of Cube.dev

The podcast discusses topics such as natural language queries on databases, the limitations of language models in writing SQL, the concept of a semantic layer in data analysis, the potential of personal co-pilots in automating tasks, machine learning models evaluating data quality and building interactive bots, limitations and improvements in models' understanding of numbers, advancements in AI and unsolved questions in the field.
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Oct 19, 2023 • 1h 9min

The End of Finetuning — with Jeremy Howard of Fast.ai

Jeremy Howard, one of the creators of Fast.ai, discusses the challenges faced in the early days of AI, the concept of transfer learning, and Fast AI's focus on vision, tables of data, recommendation systems, and text analysis. They also explore the challenges of academic publishing, the benefits of private discussion channels on Discord, and the potential of fine-tuning and pre-training in AI models. The chapter ends with a discussion on the significance of understanding the learning processes of language models and the battle between control and empowerment for a better future.
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Oct 14, 2023 • 1h 5min

Why AI Agents Don't Work (yet) - with Kanjun Qiu of Imbue

Kanjun Qiu from Imbue discusses the challenges of AI agents, optimizing reasoning in pre-trained models, AI agents in Minecraft, comparing Imbue and Adept, and building communities and organizing events.
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Oct 8, 2023 • 1h 30min

[AIE Summit Preview #2] The AI Horcrux — Swyx on Cognitive Revolution

Swyx, AI Engineer and host of the Cognitive Revolution pod, discusses the state of AI Engineering, AI Engineer Summit Schedule, backgrounds of AI engineers, key tools for AI engineers, finding and hiring AI engineers, the future of AI technology, React app structure, GBC4 Vision Access for vision and voice modalities, OpenAI's dominance in adjacent use cases, and challenges of offering AI app bundles.

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