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Unsupervised Learning with Jacob Effron

by Redpoint Ventures•unsupervised-learning.simplecast.com
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We probe the sharpest minds in AI in search for the truth about what’s real today, what will be real in the future and what it all means for businesses and the world. If you’re a builder, researcher or investor navigating the AI world, this podcast will help you deconstruct and understand the most important breakthroughs and see a clearer picture of reality. Follow this show and consider enabling notifications to stay up to date on our latest episodes. Unsupervised Learning is a podcast by Redpoint Ventures, an early-stage venture capital fund that has invested in companies like Snowflake, Stripe, and Mistral. Hosted by Redpoint investor Jacob Effron alongside Patrick Chase, Jordan Segall and Erica Brescia.
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Ep 5: You.com CEO Richard Socher on The Future of Search, Open Source Models and AGI

Jacob and Erica sit down with You.com CEO and former Salesforce Chief Scientist Richard Socher to discuss building a new search engine and the future of search, his predictions on when open source models will catch up to GPT-4, AGI and more. (1:29) - Richard's career moves and what motivated them (6:44) - More about You.com and the ethos behind the company (9:47) - How You.com integrates 3rd-party apps (13:30) - Richard's thoughts on the future of AI (23:19) - The role of academia in the world o...

Apr 06, 2023•43 min•Ep. 5

Ep 4: Fixie.ai CEO Matt Welsh on How LLMs Will Change the Way We Work

Jordan and Erica chat with Fixie.ai co-founder and former Harvard CS professor on the journey from researcher to Google eng leader and then to startup life prior to founding Fixie, a new platform for building LLM-based apps (a Redpoint portfolio company). We also talk about having Mark Zuckerberg in his CS class, ChatGPT Plugins and the AI ecosystem, and what the future might look like for our kids with AGI. You can find Matt on Twitter (@mdwelsh) and learn more about Fixie at https://www.fixie....

Apr 04, 2023•33 min•Ep. 4

Ep 3: NEAR CEO Illia Polosukhin on the Origins of the Transformer Paper and The Overlap Between AI and Crypto

Jacob and Jason sit down with NEAR CEO and Transformer paper author Illia Polosukhin. They discuss Illia’s fascinating journey from Ukraine to Google and AI to crypto, the origin story behind the “Attention Is All You Need” paper and the overlap between AI and crypto. Illia also shared his thoughts on AGI and the problems that excite him most in AI right now. You can find Illia on Twitter (@ilblackdrago) and learn more about NEAR (@nearprotocol) (00:39) - Welcoming Illia; how he became intereste...

Mar 21, 2023•48 min•Ep. 3

Ep 2: Databricks CTO Matei Zaharia on scaling and orchestrating large language models

Patrick and Jacob sit down with Matei Zaharia, Co-Founder and CTO at Databricks and Professor at Stanford. They discuss how companies are training and serving models in production with Databricks, where LLMs fall short for search and how to improve them, the state of the art AI research at Stanford, and how the size and cost of models is likely to change with technological advances in the coming years. (0:00) - Introduction (2:04) - Founding story of Databricks (6:03) - PhD classmates using earl...

Mar 07, 2023•46 min•Ep. 2

Ep 1: Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue on The Future of Open vs Closed Source in AI

Jacob and Jason sit down with Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue and discuss trends in who’s using Hugging Face, the future of closed source vs open source in machine learning, why Clem compares large closed foundation models to Formula One Cars, how enterprise AI teams will evolve and AI safety. (0:00) - Introduction (1:37) - Welcome Clem (1:57) - Starting Hugging Face (5:42) - Influence of ChatGPT (15:47) - Use cases of large vs. small platforms (18:44) - Should large language models be open? (30:...

Feb 22, 2023•49 min•Ep. 1
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