Has AI benchmarking reached its limit, and what do we have to fill this gap? Sinan Ozdemir speaks to Jon Krohn about the lack of transparency in training data and the necessity of human-led quality assurance to detect AI hallucinations, when and why to be skeptical of AI benchmarks, and the future of benchmarking agentic and multimodal models.
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Feb 27
970: The “100x Engineer”: How to Be One, But Should You?
Working with code-gen models and Claude Code: In this Five-Minute Friday, Jon Krohn addresses how AI superstars like Andrej Karpathy are using AI agents in their coding work, the outlook for code-gen in 2026, and how you can get started. Hear about Karpathy’s work as well as the ... Show More
14m 37s
Feb 24
969: The Laws of Thought: The Math of Minds and Machines, with Prof. Tom Griffiths
Princeton Professor Tom Griffiths talks to Jon Krohn about his new book, The Laws of Thought, which grapples with the mathematical models behind biological and artificial intelligence, and what makes the human brain so fascinating for psychologists and computer scientists to stud ... Show More
1h 11m
Aug 2024
Metrics Driven Development
How do you systematically measure, optimize, and improve the performance of LLM applications (like those powered by RAG or tool use)? Ragas is an open source effort that has been trying to answer this question comprehensively, and they are promoting a “Metrics Driven Development” ... Show More
42m 12s
Nov 2024
The Future of AI: Predictions and Realities
In this episode, Jaeden Schafer discusses the current challenges and developments in the AI industry, particularly focusing on the limitations faced by major players like OpenAI and Anthropic. The conversation explores the anticipated improvements in AI models, the predictions fo ... Show More
19m 52s
Apr 2024
Measuring The Speed of AI Through Benchmarks
<p dir="ltr">David Kanter, Executive Director at MLCommons, discusses the work they're doing with MLPerf Benchmarks, creating the world's first industry standard approach to measuring AI speed and safety. He also shares ways they're testing AI and LLMs for harm, to measure—and, o ... Show More
31m 45s
Jul 2023
AI Today Podcast: How AI is Transforming Insurance, Interview with Connor Atchison, Wisedocs
AI is proving transformational in every industry, including long established industries, and insurance is no exception. AI is able to optimize underwriting processes, enable more personalized insurance offerings, enhance the overall customer experience, as well as help with proce ... Show More
30m 19s
Jul 2025
Measuring the impact of AI on software engineering – with Laura Tacho
Supported by Our Partners• Statsig — The unified platform for flags, analytics, experiments, and more.• Graphite — The AI developer productivity platform.—There’s no shortage of bold claims about AI and developer productivity, but how do you separate signal from noise?In thi ... Show More
1h 11m
Feb 2025
Grok 3: The New AI Challenger
In this episode, Jaeden discusses the launch of Grok 3, the latest AI model from X AI, highlighting its capabilities, training methods, and performance benchmarks compared to competitors like OpenAI's ChatGPT. He shares personal experiences using Grok 3, including its reasoning a ... Show More
18m 24s
