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Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI
Hosted by Lukas Biewald · EN
Join Lukas Biewald on Gradient Dissent, an AI-focused podcast brought to you by Weights & Biases. Dive into fascinating conversations with industry giants from NVIDIA, Meta, Google, Lyft, OpenAI, and more. Explore the cutting-edge of AI and learn the intricacies of bringing models into production.
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R1, OpenAI’s o3, and the ARC-AGI Benchmark: Insights from Mike Knoop
Feb 4, 202501:12:01Tap to summarizeIn this episode of Gradient Dissent, host Lukas Biewald sits down with Mike Knoop, Co-founder and CEO of Ndea, a cutting-edge AI research lab. Mike shares his journey from building Zapier into a major automation platform to diving into the frontiers of AI research. They discuss DeepSeek’s R1, OpenAI’s O-series models, and the ARC Prize, a competition aimed at advancing AI’s reasoning capabilities. Mike explains how program synthesis and deep learning must merge to create true AGI, and why he believes AI reliability is the biggest hurdle for automation adoption.This conversation covers AGI timelines, research breakthroughs, and the future of intelligent systems, making it essential listening for AI enthusiasts, researchers, and entrepreneurs.Mentioned Show Notes:https://ndea.comhttps://arcprize.org/blog/r1-zero-r1-results-analysishttps://arcprize.org/blog/oai-o3-pub-breakthrough🎙 Get our podcasts on these platforms:Apple Podcasts: http://wandb.me/apple-podcastsSpotify: http://wandb.me/spotifyGoogle: http://wandb.me/gd_googleYouTube: http://wandb.me/youtubeConnect with Mike Knoop"@mikeknoopFollow Weights & Biases:https://twitter.com/weights_biases https://www.linkedin.com/company/wandb Join the Weights & Biases Discord Server:https://discord.gg/CkZKRNnaf3
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DeepSeek, Stargate and AI's $600 Billion Question with Sequoia's David Cahn
Jan 28, 202500:58:16Tap to summarizeIn this episode of Gradient Dissent, host Lukas Biewald sits down with David Cahn, partner at Sequoia Capital, for a compelling discussion on the dynamic world of AI investments. They dive into recent developments, including DeepSeek and Stargate, exploring their implications for the AI industry. Drawing from his articles, "AI's $200 Billion Question" and "AI's $600 Billion Question," David unpacks the financial challenges and opportunities surrounding AI infrastructure spending and the staggering revenue required to sustain these investments. Together, they examine the competitive strategies of cloud providers, the transformative impact of AI on business models, and predictions for the next wave of AI-driven growth. This episode offers an in-depth look at the crossroads of AI innovation and financial strategy.Mentioned Articles:AI’s $200B QuestionAI’s $600B Question🎙 Get our podcasts on these platforms:Apple Podcasts: http://wandb.me/apple-podcastsSpotify: http://wandb.me/spotifyGoogle: http://wandb.me/gd_googleYouTube: http://wandb.me/youtubeConnect with David Cahn:@DavidCahn6Follow Weights & Biases:https://twitter.com/weights_biases https://www.linkedin.com/company/wandb Join the Weights & Biases Discord Server:https://discord.gg/CkZKRNnaf3
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Building the future of collaborative AI development with Akshay Agrawal
Jan 7, 202500:41:03Tap to summarizeIn this episode of Gradient Dissent, Akshay Agrawal, Co-Founder of Marimo, joins host Lukas Biewald to discuss the future of collaborative AI development. They dive into how Marimo is enabling developers and researchers to collaborate seamlessly on AI projects, the challenges of scaling AI tools, and the importance of fostering open ecosystems for innovation. Akshay shares insights into building a platform that empowers teams to iterate faster and solve complex AI challenges together.Follow Weights & Biases:https://twitter.com/weights_biases https://www.linkedin.com/company/wandb Join the Weights & Biases Discord Server:https://discord.gg/CkZKRNnaf3
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Rachael Tatman — Conversational AI and Linguistics
Apr 7, 2020Tap to summarize🏅 See how W&B is your secret weapon to make it onto the Kaggle leaderboards - https://www.wandb.com/kaggle 👩💻Rachael Tatman is a developer advocate for Rasa, where she helps developers build and deploy conversational AI applications using their open source framework. 🤖💬 She has a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Washington where she researched computational sociolinguistics, or how our social identity affects the way we use language in computational contexts. Previously she was a data scientist at Kaggle where she’s still a Grandmaster. 💻Keep up with Rachael on her website: http://www.rctatman.com/ 🐦Follow Rachael on twitter: https://twitter.com/rctatman Get our podcast on Apple and Spotify! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/gradient-dissent-weights-biases/id1504567418 https://open.spotify.com/show/7o9r3fFig3MhTJwehXDbXm 🤖Gradient Dissent by Weights and Biases We started Weights and Biases to build tools for Machine Learning practitioners because we care a lot about the impact that Machine Learning can have in the world and we love working in the trenches with the people building these models. One of the most fun things about these building tools has been the conversations with these ML practitioners and learning about the interesting things they’re working on. This process has been so fun that we wanted to open it up to the world in the form of our new podcast. We hope you have as much fun listening to it as we had making it. 👩🏼🚀Weights and Biases: We’re always free for academics and open source projects. Email carey@wandb.com with any questions or feature suggestions. - Blog: https://www.wandb.com/articles - Gallery: See what you can create with W&B - https://app.wandb.ai/gallery - Continue the conversation on our slack community - http://bit.ly/wandb-forum 🎙Host: Lukas Biewald - https://twitter.com/l2k 👩🏼💻Producer: Lavanya Shukla - https://twitter.com/lavanyaai 📹Editor: Cayla Sharp - http://caylasharp.com/
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Brandon Rohrer — Machine Learning in Production for Robots
Mar 11, 2020Tap to summarize👨🏻💻Brandon Rohrer is a Mechanical Engineer turned Data Scientist. He’s currently a Principal Data Scientist at iRobot and has an incredibly popular Machine Learning course at e2eML where he’s made some wildly popular videos on convolutional neural networks and deep learning. His fascination with robots began after watching Luke Skywalker’s prosthetic hand in the Empire Strikes Back. He turned this fascination into a PhD from MIT and subsequently found his way to building some incredible data science products at Facebook, Microsoft and now at iRobot. ✍️Brandon’s brilliant machine learning course: http://e2eml.school/ 🐦Follow Brandon on twitter: https://twitter.com/_brohrer_ 👫Continue the conversation on our slack community - http://bit.ly/wandb-forum 🤖Gradient Dissent by Weights and Biases - http://wandb.com We started Weights and Biases to build tools for Machine Learning practitioners because we care a lot about the impact that Machine Learning can have in the world and we love working in the trenches with the people building these models. One of the most fun things about these building tools has been the conversations with these ML practitioners and learning about the interesting things they’re working on. This process has been so fun that we wanted to open it up to the world in the form of our new podcast. We hope you have as much fun listening to it as we had making it. Today our guest is Brandon Rohrer. 👩🏼🚀Weights and Biases: We’re always free for academics and open source projects. Email carey@wandb.com with any questions or feature suggestions. • Visualize your Scikit model performance with W&B - https://app.wandb.ai/lavanyashukla/visualize-sklearn/reports/Visualizing-Sklearn-With-Weights-and-Biases--Vmlldzo0ODIzNg • Blog: https://www.wandb.com/articles • Gallery: See what you can create with W&B - https://app.wandb.ai/gallery
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