867: LLMs and Agents Are Overhyped, with Dr. Andriy Burkov
Mar 04, 2025•1 hr 33 min
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Episode description
The realities of Agentic AI, AGI, and chatbots that don’t hallucinate: Andriy Burkov talks to Jon Krohn about AI in 2025. Best known for his concise machine learning modelling books, author and AI influencer Andriy Burkov also talks about his latest publication in the series, The Hundred-Page Language Learning Models Book.
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In this episode you will learn:
- (07:38) Andriy’s “triology” of books on machine learning
- (29:32) On the limitations of AI agents
- (41:12) On the prospect of artificial general intelligence (AGI)
- (54:24) On developing a chatbot that doesn’t hallucinate
- (01:10:07) On open-weight and open-source LLMs
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