In this Five-Minute Friday, Jon Krohn reveals how AI is taking on the glitzy world of advertising. Bold claims from Meta and OpenAI contend that users will soon be able to plug in what they want and have AI churn out an ad campaign for little to no cost are shaking the advertising industry to its core. The fact that the four biggest sellers of ads (Google, Meta, Amazon, and ByteDance) are digital companies and accounted for over half of the global market in 2024 adds salt to the wound. Hear the three ways that AI is disrupting the industry, and who (or what) has the most influence on digital consumers to date.

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Has AI benchmarking reached its limit, and what do we have to fill this gap? Sinan Ozdemir speaks to Jon Krohn about the lack of transparency in training data and the necessity of human-led quality assurance to detect AI hallucinations, when and why to be skeptical of AI benchmarks, and the future of benchmarking agentic and multimodal models.

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In this episode of “In Case You Missed It”, Jon recaps his June interviews on The SuperDataScience Podcast. Hear from Diane Hare, Avery Smith, Kirill Eremenko, and Shaun Johnson as they talk about the best portfolios for AI practitioners, how to stand out in a saturated candidate market for AI roles, how to tell when an AI startup is going places, and ways to lead AI change in business.

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Senior Director of AI Labs for Epiq Lilith Bat-Leah speaks to Jon Krohn about the ways AI have disrupted the legal industry using LLMs and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), as well as how the data-centric machine learning research movement (DMLR) is systematically improving data quality, and why that is so important. 

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“Stay happy and healthy”: In this special Five-Minute Friday, Jon Krohn speaks with Annie, his grandmother, on her 95th birthday. Hear how she is physically and mentally coping with illnesses that limit her mobility and the joys of having a pet.

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Data science skills, a data science bootcamp, and why Python and SQL still reign supreme: In this episode, Kirill Eremenko returns to the podcast to speak to Jon Krohn about SuperDataScience subscriber success stories, where to focus in a field that is evolving incredibly quickly, and why in-person working and networking might give you the edge over other candidates in landing a top AI role.

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In this Five-Minute Friday, Jon Krohn announces his new, free workshop on Agentic AI. On this four-hour comprehensive course, you’ll learn the key terminology for working with these flexible, multi-agent systems and then get to grips with developing and deploying this artificial “team of experts” for all your AI-driven projects. 

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Diane Hare talks to Jon Krohn about the power of storytelling for corporate buy-in of AI initiatives, how to actively implement AI to transform organizations, and how emerging professionals can upskill themselves. Hear how she discovered her background in storytelling at Ernst & Young and her work with Simon Sinek, which she finds to be integral to her process. Inspired by Sinek’s aphorism “start with why”, Diane notes that many companies neglect this crucial part of their mission because they never take the time to work on it.

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The Economist reported that global Google searches for "AI unemployment" hit an all-time high earlier this year. But do we have to worry about AI taking our jobs? In this week’s Five-Minute Friday, Jon Krohn investigates whether the rise of AI has directly led to an increase in unemployment. 

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How to get funded by a VC specializing in AI: Head of AIX Ventures Shaun Johnson talks to Jon Krohn about investment strategies, how to simplify AI adoption, why a little competition can be so beneficial to AI startups, and how Big Tech is circumventing anti-monopoly measures.

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