This week I’ve invited my friend Ben Lorica onto the show. Ben is Chief Data Scientist for O’Reilly Media, and Program Director of Strata Data & the O'Reilly A.I. conference. Ben has worked on analytics and machine learning in the finance and retail industries, and serves as an advisor for nearly a dozen startups. In his role at O’Reilly he’s re ... Show More
Aug 19
Genie 3: A New Frontier for World Models with Jack Parker-Holder and Shlomi Fruchter - #743
Today, we're joined by Jack Parker-Holder and Shlomi Fruchter, researchers at Google DeepMind, to discuss the recent release of Genie 3, a model capable of generating “playable” virtual worlds. We dig into the evolution of the Genie project and review the current model’s scaled-u ... Show More
1h 1m
Aug 12
Closing the Loop Between AI Training and Inference with Lin Qiao - #742
In this episode, we're joined by Lin Qiao, CEO and co-founder of Fireworks AI. Drawing on key lessons from her time building PyTorch, Lin shares her perspective on the modern generative AI development lifecycle. She explains why aligning training and inference systems is essentia ... Show More
1h 1m
Jul 29
Context Engineering for Productive AI Agents with Filip Kozera - #741
In this episode, Filip Kozera, founder and CEO of Wordware, explains his approach to building agentic workflows where natural language serves as the new programming interface. Filip breaks down the architecture of these "background agents," explaining how they use a reflection lo ... Show More
46m 1s
Oct 2023
Context Matters: Generative AI, the spectrum of worldviews, and understanding propaganda's appeal
Ben Dubow studied the Middle East during his undergrad and took a job tracking terrorist groups. After a brief stint at a large tech company, he launched Omelas, a company that combines AI and subject matter expertise to deliver intelligence to national security professionals.In ... Show More
50m 45s
Dec 2023
Operational Safety With AI: Chevron's Ellen Nielsen
Ellen Nielsen, Chevron’s first chief data officer, sees data as the common thread throughout a career that has spanned systems, digital data, procurement, and supply chain. In her current role, she applies what she’s learned to Chevron’s wide-ranging AI and machine learning initi ... Show More
35m 13s
Dec 2022
Ego-ish: how tech's main characters are all a bit different
This week, Natasha chatted with Alex about ego, how recent news from Sam Bankman-Fried and Elizabeth Holmes gives us a window into how it works, and impacts on the tech and venture landscape.We talked about:What Holmes and Bankman-Fried have in common, from centralized ownership ... Show More
33m 32s
Nov 2023
OpenAI Drama Casts a Shadow on Tech Industry
Andrew McAfee, Principal Research Scientist at MIT and author of The Geek Way, explains how the OpenAI saga could impact future development of artificial intelligence. Mary Lou Gardner, Associate Partner for CPG, Retail and Logistics at Infosys Consulting, discusses retail earnin ... Show More
36m 30s
Dec 2023
813. Insights: Fintech's biggest stories of 2023
As we wrap up another rollercoaster year in fintech, 11:FS CEO David M. Brear is joined by some a panel of colleagues to talk about the biggest, best, and most outrageous happenings of 2023. We look at everything from Silicon Vally Bank and Goldman Sach's rocky relationship with ... Show More
54m 59s