Karthik Dinakar is the cofounder and CTO of Pienso, an interactive AI platform anyone can use to turn text data into insights without requiring any coding. He has a PhD in Machine Learning from MIT. He has held roles at MIT Media Lab, Microsoft, and Deutsche Bank.

In this episode, we cover a range of topics including:
- Tech stack of Generative AI applications
- Problem with general purpose LLMs
- Training LLMs on my own data
- Making LLMs faster and cheaper
- Shortage of AI compute
- Context windows
- Pursuit of AGI

Karthik's favorite books: 
- Introduction to Algorithms (Authors: Thomas H. Cormen, Charles E. Leiserson, Ronald L. Rivest, Clifford Stein)
- Mindstorms: Children, Computers, And Powerful Ideas (Author: Seymour Peypert)

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