Sol Rashidi, a distinguished data executive who has served in C-suite roles at Fortune 100 companies, joins Jon Krohn to delve into successful enterprise AI strategies and the reasons behind the high turnover among Chief Data Officers. This episode provides an in-depth look at selecting AI projects that succeed and understanding the strategic value of patents in various industries. Benefit from Sol’s extensive experience and practical advice on navigating complex corporate challenges.This episode is brought to you by AWS Inferentia and AWS Trainium. Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Visit passionfroot.me/superdatascience for sponsorship information.In this episode you will learn:• How CDOs and related roles have such high turnover because [09:40]• The importance of building relationships in AI projects [17:01]• How Sol's book "The AI Survival Guide" came about [20:44]• How high-criticality, low-complexity AI projects are the ones with the highest probability of success [27:11]• How Enterprise data security issues can be resolved with technologies like Protopia’s stained-glass data-masking solution [36:10]• Why having great data engineers is essential [47:57]• The value of patents [51:45]Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/781

Want to become a data scientist? Jon and Adam discuss the key steps to becoming a data scientist, with a focus on developing portfolio projects. Hear about the 10 project ideas Adam recommends in his book to help you stand out in the data science community.Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/780Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Visit passionfroot.me/superdatascience for sponsorship information.

Tidyverse, ggplot2, and the secret to a tech company’s longevity: Hadley Wickham talks to Jon Krohn about Posit’s rebrand, Tidyverse and why it needs to be in every data scientist’s toolkit, and why getting your hands dirty with open-source projects can be so lucrative for your career.This episode is brought to you by Intel and HPE Ezmeral Software. Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Visit passionfroot.me/superdatascience for sponsorship information.In this episode you will learn:• All about the Tidyverse [04:46]• Hadley’s favorite R libraries [17:10]• The goal of Posit [30:29]• On bringing multiple programming languages together [36:02]• The principles for a long-lasting tech company [52:10]• How Hadley developed ggplot2 [55:24]• How to contribute to the open-source community [1:05:43]Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/779

Mixtral 8x22B is the focus on this week's Five-Minute Friday. Jon Krohn examines how this model from French AI startup Mistral leverages its mixture-of-experts architecture to redefine efficiency and specialization in AI-powered tasks. Tune in to learn about its performance benchmarks and the transformative potential of its open-source license.Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/778Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Visit passionfroot.me/superdatascience for sponsorship information.

Generative AI is reshaping our world, and Bernard Marr, world-renowned futurist and best-selling author, joins Jon Krohn to guide us through this transformation. In this episode, Bernard shares his insights on how AI is transforming industries, revolutionizing daily life, and addressing global challenges. With his extensive experience advising top organizations worldwide, he also examines the ethical considerations of AI deployment.This episode is brought to you by Intel and HPE Ezmeral Software. Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Visit passionfroot.me/superdatascience for sponsorship information.In this episode you will learn:• How Generative AI will transform industries [03:55]• The evolution of Generative AI [10:19]• How will Generative AI impact daily life [16:52]• The ethical challenges of AI [18:55]• How corporations can harness Generative AI for collaboration [24:36]• Industries that will be impacted by Generative AI [32:20]• How Sora-like Generative AI systems will create highly immersive entertainment [42:16]• How Generative AI could unlock 99% of business data [53:34]Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/777

What are the risks of AI progressing beyond a point of no return? What do we stand to gain? On this Five-Minute Friday, Jon Krohn talks ‘books’ as he outlines two nonfiction works on AI and futurism by Oxford philosopher Nick Bostrom. Listen to a breakdown of Deep Utopia and Superintelligence in this episode.Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/776Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Visit passionfroot.me/superdatascience for sponsorship information.

Tech entrepreneur Aleksa Gordić discusses self-directed learning, traits for tech entrepreneurship, and the social impact of artificial superintelligence with Jon Krohn. Topics include motivating oneself to become an entrepreneur, sustainable solutions for LLMs, next major developments in AI, and why formal education needs change.

A.I. roboticist Pieter Abbeel discusses RFM-1, a groundbreaking robot arm by Covariant merging digital intelligence with the physical world. Topics include enhancing AI for real-world robotics, advanced multimodal sequence model capabilities, robot programming advancements, and limitations of current large language models.

Dr. Barrett Thomas, an award-winning Research Professor at the University of Iowa, explores the intricacies of Markov decision processes and their connection to Deep Reinforcement Learning. Discover how these concepts are applied in operations research to enhance business efficiency and drive innovations in same-day delivery and autonomous transportation systems.This episode is brought to you by Ready Tensor, where innovation meets reproducibility. Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Visit passionfroot.me/superdatascience for sponsorship information.In this episode you will learn:• Barrett's start in operations logistics [02:27]• Concorde Solver and the traveling salesperson problem [09:59]• Cross-function approximation explained [19:13]• How Markov decision processes relate to deep reinforcement learning [26:08]• Understanding policy in decision-making contexts [33:40]• Revolutionizing supply chains and transportation with aerial drones [46:47]• Barrett’s career evolution: past changes and future prospects [52:19]Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/773

Pytorch benefits, how to get funding for your AI startup, and managing scientific silos: In our new series for SuperDataScience, “In Case You Missed It”, host Jon Krohn engages in some “reinforcement learning through human feedback” of his own with need-to-hear sound bites from past SDS episodes!Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/772Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Visit passionfroot.me/superdatascience for sponsorship information.