The Bitter Lesson
Every AI builder knows the anxiety: you spend months engineering prompts, tuning pipelines, and chaining calls together — then a new model drops and half your work evaporates overnight. It turns out r...
15 Mars 19min
From Atari to ChatGPT: How AI Learned to Follow Instructions
From Atari to ChatGPT: How AI Learned to Follow Instructions by Katie Malone
9 Mars 25min
It's RAG time: Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Today we are going to talk about the feature with the worst acronym in generative AI: RAG, or Retrieval Augmented Generation. If you've ever used something like "Chat with My Docs," if you have an int...
2 Mars 17min
Chasing Away Repetitive LLM Responses with Verbalized Sampling
One of the things that LLMs can be really helpful with is brainstorming or generating new creative content. They are called Generative AI, after all—not just for summarization and question-and-answer ...
23 Feb 19min
We're Back
It's been (*checks watch*) about five and a half years since we last talked. Fortunately nothing much has happened in the AI/data science world in that time. So let's just pick up where we left off, s...
16 Feb 2min
A Key Concept in AI Alignment: Deep Reinforcement Learning from Human Preferences
Modern AI chatbots have a few different things that go into creating them. Today we're going to talk about a really important part of the process: the alignment training, where the chatbot goes from b...
14 Feb 19min
The Impact of Generative AI on Critical Thinking
I use LLMs a lot. I use them in my work, I use them in my personal life, and sometimes I use them to help me with stuff that I already know how to do. I’m working on something and I just want to make ...
14 Feb 25min
So long, and thanks for all the fish
All good things must come to an end, including this podcast. This is the last episode we plan to release, and it doesn’t cover data science—it’s mostly reminiscing, thanking our wonderful audience (th...
26 Juli 202035min
