Podcast Episodes

AI Agents: Your Assistant or Theirs?

Season 2 Episode 1

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AI agents from OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic promise to act on your behalf—booking flights, handling tasks, making decisions. What kind of agency do these systems actually have? And whose…

Published on 10 hours ago

AI Safety: Constitutional AI vs Human Feedback

Season 1 Episode 27

With great power comes great responsibility. How do leading AI companies implement safety and ethics as language models scale? OpenAI uses Model Spec combined with RLHF (Reinforcement Learning from H…

Published on 1 year, 4 months ago

Open Source LLMs: How Open Is "Open"?

Season 1 Episode 26

Notable open source large language models from Meta, French AI company Mistral (valued at $2B), Microsoft, and Apple. Not all open source models are equally open—the restrictions and licensing constr…

Published on 1 year, 4 months ago

Open Source AI: The Safety Debate

Season 1 Episode 25

Why enterprises and entrepreneurs choose open source LLMs like Meta's Llama—cost-effectiveness, control, privacy, and security. The safety and ethics debate: which poses greater risk to humanity, ope…

Published on 1 year, 5 months ago

LLM Benchmarks: How to Know Which AI Is Better

Season 1 Episode 24

Beyond ChatGPT and Gemini: Anthropic's Claude and the $4 billion Amazon investment. How AI industry benchmarks work, including LMSYS Arena Elo and MMLU (Measuring Massive Multitask Language Understan…

Published on 1 year, 5 months ago

Multimodal AI: When ChatGPT Learned to See

Season 1 Episode 23

Recent updates from Google and OpenAI feature multimodal capabilities—AI that processes multiple input types simultaneously. Why multimodal models outperform single-modality systems, demonstrated thr…

Published on 1 year, 5 months ago

Google Gemini: Three Models, One Strategy

Season 1 Episode 22

Google's Gemini family of multimodal AI models compared to OpenAI equivalents. What Nano, Pro, and Ultra each do, how they compare to GPT-3.5, GPT-4, and ChatGPT, and what "multimodal" means in pract…

Published on 1 year, 5 months ago

Building Custom GPTs: Seven Lessons from GPT Builder

Season 1 Episode 21

Creating a travel planning AI using OpenAI's GPT Builder with no code. Seven takeaways from building a custom GPT, what the process reveals about prompt engineering, and the constraints of the no-cod…

Published on 1 year, 10 months ago

Enterprise LLMs: Cloud Deployment Strategy

Season 1 Episode 20

Deploying large language models for enterprise applications. Rackspace CTO Jeff DeVerter discusses implementing Google PaLM for sales, enabling Azure and AWS customers, and why your LLM choice should…

Published on 2 years ago

ChatGPT in the Classroom: Yale's Response

Season 1 Episode 19

How is generative AI changing teaching, learning, and evaluation? Yale's Assistant Dean of Academic Affairs Alfred Guy discusses the university's AI guidance and its implications for education. What …

Published on 2 years ago