Today we’re joined by Samory Kpotufe, an associate professor at Columbia University and program chair of the 2021 Conference on Learning Theory (COLT).
In our conversation with Samory, we explore his research at the intersection of machine learning, statistics, and learning theory, and his goal of reaching self-tuning, adaptive algorithms. We discuss Samor ... Show More
Jun 9
Is RAG Dead? Lessons from Building AI for Tax Law with Alex Bowcut - #769
As context windows grow into the millions of tokens, many AI practitioners are questioning whether retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) is still necessary. If modern models can ingest entire libraries of documents, why bother with retrieval at all? In this episode, Alex Bowcut, H ... Show More
51m 32s
May 21
Relational Foundation Models for Enterprise Data with Jure Leskovec - #768
In this episode, Jure Leskovec, co-founder and chief scientist at Kumo and professor of computer science at Stanford, joins us to explore two fronts of his work: AI for science and relational deep learning. We begin with AI Virtual Cell, a multiscale effort to learn data-driven r ... Show More
1h 6m
May 7
How to Find the Agent Failures Your Evals Miss with Scott Clark - #767
In this episode, Scott Clark, co-founder and CEO of Distributional, joins us to explore how teams can reliably operate and improve complex LLM systems and agents in production. Scott introduces a Maslow’s hierarchy of observability: telemetry for logging, monitoring for known sig ... Show More
53m 19s
Jul 2023
How studying human cognition can help us make better AI systems, with Tom Griffiths, PhD
From ChatGPT to self-driving cars, AI is everywhere these days – but its rollout hasn’t always been entirely smooth. Tom Griffiths, PhD, a professor of psychology and computer science at Princeton University, talks about how artificial intelligence works, how AI differs from huma ... Show More
32m 18s
Jul 2021
#255 — The Future of Intelligence
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sam Harris speaks with Jeff Hawkins about the nature of intelligence. They discuss how the neocortex creates models of the world, the role of prediction in sensory-motor experience, cortical columns, reference frames, thought as movement in conc ... Show More
58m 1s
Jul 2018
175: Insights from the Founder of KDnuggets
In this episode of the SuperDataScience Podcast, I chat with the President and Editor at KDNuggets, Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro. You will hear about the recent advancements in Data Science, learn how Reinforcement Learning can greatly improve AI capabilities, and learn about the no ... Show More
53m 22s