The Data Exchange with Ben Lorica
Technology Podcasts
A series of informal conversations with thought leaders, researchers, practitioners, and writers on a wide range of topics in technology, science, and of course big data, data science, artificial intelligence, and related applications. Anchored by Ben Lorica (@BigData), the Data Exchange also features a roundup of the most important stories from the worlds of data, machine learning and AI. Detailed show notes for each episode can be found on https://thedataexchange.media/ The Data Exchange podcast is a production of Gradient Flow [https://gradientflow.com/].
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United States
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Technology Podcasts
Description:
A series of informal conversations with thought leaders, researchers, practitioners, and writers on a wide range of topics in technology, science, and of course big data, data science, artificial intelligence, and related applications. Anchored by Ben Lorica (@BigData), the Data Exchange also features a roundup of the most important stories from the worlds of data, machine learning and AI. Detailed show notes for each episode can be found on https://thedataexchange.media/ The Data Exchange podcast is a production of Gradient Flow [https://gradientflow.com/].
Twitter:
@bigdata
Language:
English
Contact:
4156476844
Website:
https://thedataexchange.media/
Episodes
Monthly Roundup: New LLMs, GTC 2024, Constraint-Driven Innovation, Model Safety, and GraphRAG
4/18/2024
Paco Nathan is the founder of Derwen, a boutique consultancy focused on Data and AI. This episode is part of our series of monthly roundups and covers: recently released large language models, Constraint-Driven Innovation, highlights from GTC 2024, and Lessons from the First AI Workload Security Exploit.
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Duration:00:37:01
Automating Software Upgrades: How to Combine AI and Expert Developers
4/11/2024
Steve Pike is a co-founder of Infield.ai, a startup building tools to help companies upgrade and maintain open source software dependencies, ensuring they stay up-to-date with the latest releases, features, and security fixes.
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Duration:00:36:27
Generative AI in the Industrial Sphere
4/4/2024
Chetan Gupta is the Head of AI Research at Hitachi. This episode explores the applications and challenges of generative AI in industrial settings.
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Duration:00:44:04
The Intersection of LLMs, Knowledge Graphs, and Query Generation
3/28/2024
Semih Salihoglu is an Associate Professor at University of Waterloo, and co-creator of Kuzu an open source embeddable property graph database management system. This episode explores the use of large language models (LLMs) for generating queries across different query languages like SQL and Cypher for graphs.
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Duration:00:57:45
Unlocking the Potential of Private Data Collaboration
3/21/2024
Sadegh Riazi, CEO and co-founder of Pyte, a startup offering secure, encrypted data collaboration solutions, enabling partners to maximize insights without compromising privacy or data integrity.
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Duration:00:36:14
Frontiers of AI: From Text-to-Video Models to Knowledge Graphs
3/14/2024
Paco Nathan is the founder of Derwen, a boutique consultancy focused on Data and AI. This episode explores recent developments in AI, including text-to-video models like Sora, frameworks for productionizing AI models, analyses of systems like Google’s Gemini, techniques to improve foundation models, AMD’s software innovations for AI acceleration, and knowledge graph augmentations of language models.
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Duration:00:33:35
Adaptive, Specialized, and Accessible: Where AI Systems Are Heading Next
3/7/2024
Jerry Kaplan is the author of the new book “Generative Artificial Intelligence: What Everyone Needs to Know”.
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Duration:00:43:01
2024 Themes and Trends in AI
2/29/2024
This episode is our annual deep dive into the themes and trends of AI in 2024, emphasizing the democratization of AI hardware, advancements in generative AI models, and the integration of AI into various enterprise processes.
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Duration:00:26:36
The AI Infrastructure Revolution: From Cloud Computing to Data Center Design
2/22/2024
Bryan Cantrill, CTO and Co-founder of Oxide Cloud Computer, leads a startup delivering integrated hardware and software solutions for enterprises seeking cloud computing systems with hyperscaler agility. Oxide specializes in vertically integrated, scale-ready cloud infrastructure tailored for mainstream business needs.
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Duration:00:42:44
AI in Depth: Transforming Transportation, Enterprise, and Policy
2/15/2024
Evangelos Simoudis is a seasoned venture investor and a senior advisor to global corporations, and Managing Director at Synapse Partners, a company that invests in startups developing enterprise applications that exploit Big Data and AI.
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Duration:00:41:12
Software Meets Hardware: Enabling AMD for Large Language Models
2/8/2024
Sharon Zhou and Greg Diamos are co-founders of Lamini, a startup at the forefront of enabling enterprise adoption of large language models (LLMs). We discussed Lamini’s work with AMD, which focused on closing the gap between AMD hardware capabilities and software integration in LLM applications.
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Duration:00:38:37
Incentives are Superpowers: Mastering Motivation in the AI Era
2/1/2024
Uri Gneezy is Professor of Economics and Strategy at UC San Diego, and author of our 2023 Book of the Year, “Mixed Signals: How Incentives Really Work”.
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Duration:00:31:09
Synthetic Futures: The Convergence of Biology and AI
1/25/2024
Dmitriy Ryaboy is the VP of AI Enablement at Ginkgo Bioworks, a startup that uses machine learning and AI to develop a wide range of applications. The conversation focuses on the intersection of AI, machine learning, and biology, particularly in the field of synthetic biology.
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Duration:00:32:22
AI Co-Pilots in Action: Transforming Function Calling in Cybersecurity
1/18/2024
Jian Zhang is co-founder, CTO, VP Engineering at Nexusflow AI a startup that uses Generative AI to build tools for Cybersecurity. This conversation revolves around the integration of various AI components, with a specific focus on cybersecurity and function calling copilots.
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Duration:00:45:00
Leveling Up: Tools and Techniques to Make AI Development More Accessible
1/11/2024
Sarmad Qadri, founder and CEO of LastMile, a startup building an AI developer platform for engineering teams. This conversation delves into key artificial intelligence and machine learning themes, focusing on injecting software engineering rigor into the development of LLM and GenAI applications.
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Duration:00:45:16
LLMs on CPUs, Period
1/4/2024
Nir Shavit, Professor at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, is also a Founder of Neural Magic, a startup working to accelerate open-source large language models and simplify AI deployments.
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Duration:00:33:13
Democratizing Wealth Management With AI
12/28/2023
Chirag Yagnik is a co-founder of Arta , a company that harnesses innovations in artificial intelligence and software to develop wealth management solutions. Arta aims to democratize access to sophisticated investment tools typically only available to ultra-high net worth individuals through family offices.
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Duration:00:47:27
Knowledge Graphs: Contextualizing Enterprise Data for More Accurate LLMs
12/21/2023
Juan Sequeda (Principal Scientist & Head of AI Lab) and Dean Allemang (Principal Solutions Architect) are knowledge graph experts at data.world, a startup that offers a data catalog powered by a knowledge graph to help organizations better understand and gain value from their data.
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Duration:00:41:36
TimeGPT: Machine Learning for Time Series, Made Accessible
12/14/2023
Max Mergenthaler (CEO) and Azul Garza Ramirez (CTO) are co-founders of Nixtla, a startup that seeks to make cutting-edge predictive insights widely accessible. In this episode we discuss TimeGPT, Nixtla’s new frontier model for time series forecasting.
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Duration:00:44:07
Best Practices for Building LLM-Backed Applications
12/7/2023
Waleed Kadous, Chief Scientist at Anyscale, is one of my go-to experts for best practices on building applications leveraging large language models.
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Duration:00:53:50