"The Cognitive Revolution"

"The Cognitive Revolution"

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  • Organic Holodeck with Prophetic AI co-founders Eric Wollberg and Wesley Berry

    In this episode from new podcast Emergent Behavior, host @Ate-a-Pi interviews the co-founders of Prophetic AI to learn how they're using AI to facilitate lucid dreaming. Prophetic had come up in the recent Cognitive Revolution conversation with Dean W. Ball about brain computer interfaces, and Nathan had them on the list of companies to invite on the show, so it was really fun to discover that Ate-a-Pi had already done an interview with them right around the same time.

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    Subscribe to Emergent Behavior:

    Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2KfbuKL7iqIfbpY31PHtEg

    Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/emergent-behavior/id1735023473

    YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@EmergentBehaviorPod

    &

    Check out Nathan's new chatbot on www.cognitiverevolution.ai


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    RECOMMENDED PODCAST: 

    The AI Daily Brief If you’re looking for an edge to stay up to date on everything AI, subscribe to Nathaniel Whittemore's AI Daily Brief which delivers tight episodes covering all things AI from legislation to new technologies to the philosophical debates around generalized intelligence. 


    Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7gKwwMLFLc6RmjmRpbMtEO

    Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-ai-daily-brief-formerly-the-ai-breakdown/id1680633614


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    Omneky is an omnichannel creative generation platform that lets you launch hundreds of thousands of ad iterations that actually work customized across all platforms, with a click of a button. Omneky combines generative AI and real-time advertising data. Mention "Cog Rev" for 10% off https://www.omneky.com/


    Head to Squad to access global engineering without the headache and at a fraction of the cost: head to https://choosesquad.com/ and mention “Turpentine” to skip the waitlist.


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    TIMESTAMPS:

    (00:00) Intro

    (00:43) Diving Deep with Prophetic AI

    (02:18) Exploring Lucid Dreaming with Halo

    (05:08) The Technical Marvel Behind Halo

    (07:25) A Deep Dive into Lucid Dreaming Experiences

    (13:15) Sponsor: Brave | Omneky

    (14:42) Do All People Have Lucid States?

    (32:19) Sponsor: Squad

    (41:05) Building the Neural Model for Dream Control

    (43:15) Exploring the Intersection of EEG, fMRI, and Ultrasound in Lucid Dreaming

    (43:48) The Journey from Open Source Data to Targeted Brain Stimulation

    (47:08) Collaboration with the Donders Institute and the Future of Lucid Dreaming Research

    (48:40) The Role of Machine Learning and AI in Enhancing Data Collection and Analysis

    (50:04) From Theory to Practice: Implementing Transcranial Focused Ultrasound (TFUS)

    (53:51) Personalizing the Lucid Dreaming Experience through Reinforcement Learning

    (1:16:18) Looking Ahead: The Potential and Challenges of Neurostimulation Technology

    (1:22:55) Addressing the Skeptics: The Debate Over Natural vs. Technologically Induced Lucid Dreaming

    1 hr 28 min
  • Merging Man and Machine? The Neurotech Frontier with Dean W. Ball

    In this podcast, we dive into the fascinating world of brain-computer interfaces with Dean W. Ball. We learn about the latest technologies, from non-invasive EEG and ultrasound stimulation to invasive Neuralink implants. We also discover the state-of-art tools, technical challenges, and the big questions around thought dimensionality, ethical considerations, and the societal impact of brain reading and writing.


    SPONSORS:

    The Brave search API can be used to assemble a data set to train your AI models and help with retrieval augmentation at the time of inference. All while remaining affordable with developer first pricing, integrating the Brave search API into your workflow translates to more ethical data sourcing and more human representative data sets. Try the Brave search API for free for up to 2000 queries per month at https://bit.ly/BraveTCR


    Omneky is an omnichannel creative generation platform that lets you launch hundreds of thousands of ad iterations that actually work customized across all platforms, with a click of a button. Omneky combines generative AI and real-time advertising data. Mention "Cog Rev" for 10% off https://www.omneky.com/


    Plumb is a no-code AI app builder designed for product teams who care about quality and speed. What is taking you weeks to hand-code today can be done confidently in hours. Check out https://bit.ly/PlumbTCR for early access.


    Head to Squad to access global engineering without the headache and at a fraction of the cost: head to https://choosesquad.com/ and mention “Turpentine” to skip the waitlist.


    CHAPTERS:

    (00:00:00) Introduction

    (00:04:00) Background

    (00:06:50) Journey to Neurotech Interest

    (00:07:56) Concept of Human-Machine Merge

    (00:12:01) Impact of Language Models

    (00:15:53) Sponsors: Brave / Omneky

    (00:17:20) Adoption of AI Tools like ChatGPT

    (00:22:33) Neural Technologies as Sensor Fusion

    (00:26:03) Brain Signals and EEG Devices

    (00:29:09) Electrodes and Electrical Field Measurement

    (00:37:04) Sponsors: Plumb / Squad

    (00:39:01) Neurofeedback and Brain Training

    (00:48:44) The Rise of Neural Networks

    (00:57:29) Shared Latent Space for Brain Signals

    (01:09:18) Trajectory of Brain-Computer Interface

    (01:14:44) Near-Term Possibilities

    (01:26:25) Limitations of Brain-Computer Interfaces

    (01:38:31) Stimulating Brain Activity

    (01:46:08) Policy Considerations

    (01:52:02) Solved World and Artificial Constraints

    (02:04:27) Acclimating to Merge Technology

    (02:08:33) Advice for Understanding Neural Interfaces

    2 hr 10 min
  • Automating Circuit Board Design Using Reinforcement Learning w Sergiy Nesterenko, Founder of Quilter on Autopilot

    In this episode from the Autopilot podcast, Sergiy Nesterenko, founder of Quilter (backed by Benchmark), discusses designing PCB circuitboards end-to-end using reinforcement learning. "Autopilot" host Will Summerlin and Nesterenko cover how current PCB boards are designed and how Quilter’s tech stack enables faster board design, what better circuit boards enable in the future, their GTM and where they are seeing most market pull right now, and much more.


    Subscribe to Autopilot:

    Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6YQZkKHN7EP2yWedAvSxBC?si=18377c69a2804333&nd=1&dlsi=18fee5e95b284d02

    Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/autopilot-with-will-summerlin/id1738163836

    YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@AutopilotwithWillSummerlin


    Check out Nathan's new chatbot on www.cognitiverevolution.ai


    SPONSORS:

    The Brave search API can be used to assemble a data set to train your AI models and help with retrieval augmentation at the time of inference. All while remaining affordable with developer first pricing, integrating the Brave search API into your workflow translates to more ethical data sourcing and more human representative data sets. Try the Brave search API for free for up to 2000 queries per month at https://bit.ly/BraveTCR


    Omneky is an omnichannel creative generation platform that lets you launch hundreds of thousands of ad iterations that actually work customized across all platforms, with a click of a button. Omneky combines generative AI and real-time advertising data. Mention "Cog Rev" for 10% off https://www.omneky.com/


    Plumb is a no-code AI app builder designed for product teams who care about quality and speed. What is taking you weeks to hand-code today can be done confidently in hours. Check out https://bit.ly/PlumbTCR for early access.


    Head to Squad to access global engineering without the headache and at a fraction of the cost: head to https://choosesquad.com/ and mention “Turpentine” to skip the waitlist.



    LINKS:

    Quilter: https://www.quilter.ai/

    Autopilot Ventures: https://www.apv.vc/



    X/SOCIAL:

    @labenz (Nathan)

    @WSummerlinAI (Will)

    @sergiynest (Sergiy)

    @quilterai (Quilter)


    TIMESTAMPS:

    (00:00) Intro & Sergiy’s Background

    (04:31) What Sergiy learned from SpaceX

    (05:53) Founding thesis of Quilter and Quilter’s journey

    (06:57) Where would one find circuit boards?

    (08:11) What is the process of designing a circuit board?

    (09:39) Design process today with Quilter

    (14:34) Sponsor: Omneky

    (16:01) Quilter’s thesis and designing more complex circuits

    (18:25) How much are humans currently paid for board design

    (19:41) Labor dynamics in board design

    (20:30) Do most companies have board designers in-house?

    (21:14) Incentive structure

    (22:44) What does a high-performance circuit board look like vs low-performance?

    (26:37) Quilter’s technology stack

    (29:15) Sponsor: Plumb | Squad

    (31:15) How Quilter can grow with scale?

    (33:50) Where is circuit manufacturing happening

    (37:17) What other parts of knowledge work can be solved with reinforcement learning

    (41:03) GTM and who Quilter is selling to

    (42:48) Pricing

    (44:04) Where Quilter is seeing the most market pull right now

    (45:21) What makes Quilter an exciting company to work at or invest

    (47:14) The effects of closed research in private companies for the industry

    (49:25) Open source vs closed source

    (51:14) What Sergiy would advise to himself in his early founder

    (53:59) What drew Sergiy to working with Benchmark

    (56:19) Wrap


    58 min
  • Robotics Research Update, with Keerthana Gopalakrishnan and Ted Xiao of Google DeepMind

    Google DeepMind researchers Keerthana Gopalakrishnan and Ted Xiao discuss their latest breakthroughs in AI robotics. Including models that enable robots to understand novel objects, learn from human demonstrations, and operate under ethical constraints. The conversation covers six groundbreaking papers that showcase rapid progress towards general-purpose robotics.


    SPONSORS:

    The Brave search API can be used to assemble a data set to train your AI models and help with retrieval augmentation at the time of inference. All while remaining affordable with developer first pricing, integrating the Brave search API into your workflow translates to more ethical data sourcing and more human representative data sets. Try the Brave search API for free for up to 2000 queries per month at https://bit.ly/BraveTCR


    Omneky is an omnichannel creative generation platform that lets you launch hundreds of thousands of ad iterations that actually work customized across all platforms, with a click of a button. Omneky combines generative AI and real-time advertising data. Mention "Cog Rev" for 10% off https://www.omneky.com/


    Plumb is a no-code AI app builder designed for product teams who care about quality and speed. What is taking you weeks to hand-code today can be done confidently in hours. Check out https://bit.ly/PlumbTCR for early access.


    Head to Squad to access global engineering without the headache and at a fraction of the cost: head to https://choosesquad.com/ and mention “Turpentine” to skip the waitlist.


    CHAPTERS :

    (00:00) Introduction

    (04:44) The Future of Robotics

    (14:40) Sponsors : Brave / Omneky

    (16:04) Inputs and Outputs

    (24:03) A Leap Towards Generalist Robots

    (32:08) Sponsors : Plumb / Squad

    (33:52) Learning in Robotics

    (41:12) Learning from On-the-Fly Examples

    (41:57) Annotating Robot Actions

    (50:17) Scaling and Safety

    (01:03:05) Learning to Learn Faster

    (01:08:43) Zero-Shot Learning

    (01:15:15) Future Directions

    1 hr 25 min
  • AI Inference: Good, Fast, and Cheap, with Lin Qiao & Dmytro Ivchenko of Fireworks AI

    In this episode, we delve into the intricate world of AI inference with cofounders of Firework AI. Discover the strategies behind optimizing AI performance, the importance of balancing latency and throughput, and the nuances of different AI architectures from GPT-3 to Stable Diffusion. Learn about their partnership with Stability AI, their unique focus on reducing total cost of ownership, and their vision for a seamless developer experience.


    RECOMMENDED PODCAST:

    How Do You Use ChatGPT with Dan Shipper.

    Dan Shipper talks to programmers, writers, founders, academics, tech executives, and others to walk through all of their ChatGPT use cases (including Nathan!). They even use ChatGPT together, live on the show. Listen to How Do You Use ChatGPT? from Dan Shipper and the team at Every, wherever you get your podcasts: https://link.chtbl.com/hdyuchatgpt


    SPONSORS:

    Omneky is an omnichannel creative generation platform that lets you launch hundreds of thousands of ad iterations that actually work customized across all platforms, with a click of a button. Omneky combines generative AI and real-time advertising data. Mention "Cog Rev" for 10% off https://www.omneky.com/


    The Brave search API can be used to assemble a data set to train your AI models and help with retrieval augmentation at the time of inference. All while remaining affordable with developer first pricing, integrating the Brave search API into your workflow translates to more ethical data sourcing and more human representative data sets. Try the Brave search API for free for up to 2000 queries per month at https://bit.ly/BraveTCR


    Plumb is a no-code AI app builder designed for product teams who care about quality and speed. What is taking you weeks to hand-code today can be done confidently in hours. Check out https://bit.ly/PlumbTCR for early access.


    Head to Squad to access global engineering without the headache and at a fraction of the cost: head to https://choosesquad.com/ and mention “Turpentine” to skip the waitlist.


    CHAPTERS :

    (00:00:00) Introduction

    (00:08:34) Compute Stack

    (00:19:23) Fireworks Product Philosophy

    (00:24:11) Sponsors : Brave / Omneky

    (00:25:40) Fine-tuning Strategy

    (00:38:40) Sponsors : Plumb / Squad

    (00:40:33) NVIDIA Stack Overview

    (00:47:14) TensorFlow Triton Service

    (00:55:25) Reduced Precision Advantages

    (01:03:57) Different Deployment Scenarios

    (01:08:27) Seeking Intuition on Sharding

    (01:19:28) Announcing Stability AI Partnership

    (01:32:00) Closing Remarks

    1 hr 43 min
  • Reading Minds from Shared Latent Space

    In this episode, we explore the cutting-edge world of AI-powered brain imaging with the MindEye2 Project. Discover how researchers are reconstructing images from fMRI data, offering unprecedented insights into the human mind. We discuss the implications for neuroscience, clinical diagnosis, and the future of AI-assisted brain decoding.


    RECOMMENDED PODCAST:

    How Do You Use ChatGPT with Dan Shipper.

    Dan Shipper talks to programmers, writers, founders, academics, tech executives, and others to walk through all of their ChatGPT use cases (including Nathan!). They even use ChatGPT together, live on the show. Listen to How Do You Use ChatGPT? from Dan Shipper and the team at Every, wherever you get your podcasts : https://link.chtbl.com/hdyuchatgpt


    SPONSORS:

    Omneky is an omnichannel creative generation platform that lets you launch hundreds of thousands of ad iterations that actually work customized across all platforms, with a click of a button. Omneky combines generative AI and real-time advertising data. Mention "Cog Rev" for 10% off https://www.omneky.com/


    The Brave search API can be used to assemble a data set to train your AI models and help with retrieval augmentation at the time of inference. All while remaining affordable with developer first pricing, integrating the Brave search API into your workflow translates to more ethical data sourcing and more human representative data sets. Try the Brave search API for free for up to 2000 queries per month at https://bit.ly/BraveTCR


    Plumb is a no-code AI app builder designed for product teams who care about quality and speed. What is taking you weeks to hand-code today can be done confidently in hours. Check out https://bit.ly/PlumbTCR for early access.


    Head to Squad to access global engineering without the headache and at a fraction of the cost: head to https://choosesquad.com/ and mention “Turpentine” to skip the waitlist.


    CHAPTERS:

    (00:00) Introduction

    (07:24) Evolution of Brain Decoding Tech

    (10:33) From MindEye1 to MindEye2

    (14:12) Sponsor: Omneky

    (14:43) Foundation Models for Enhanced AI

    (26:49) Future of Image Reconstruction from Brain Data

    (34:10) Sponsors: Brave / Plumb / Squad

    (44:23) Evaluating AI-Generated Reconstructions

    (48:10) Understanding Semantic Info in the Brain

    (51:47) Potential and Ethics of Brain Data Usage

    (57:13) Foundation Models in Neuroscience

    (01:02:46) Future of Brain-Computer Interfaces

    1 hr 35 min
  • Interfacing with AI, with Linus Lee of Notion

    In this episode, Linus Lee, AI product leader at Notion, joins us to discuss his groundbreaking projects and unique approach to exploring AI systems. He shares his toolkit and insights on language model capabilities, along with his vision for the future of AI, which is centered on amplifying human intelligence. Linus inspires listeners to engage deeply with AI and to steer its development in ways that enhance human creativity and agency.


    RECOMMENDED PODCAST:

    How Do You Use ChatGPT Dan Shipper talks to programmers, writers, founders, academics, tech executives, and others to walk through all of their ChatGPT use cases (including Nathan!). They even use ChatGPT together, live on the show. Listen to How Do You Use ChatGPT? from Dan Shipper and the team at Every, wherever you get your podcasts. https://link.chtbl.com/hdyuchatgpt


    SPONSORS:

    Omneky is an omnichannel creative generation platform that lets you launch hundreds of thousands of ad iterations that actually work customized across all platforms, with a click of a button. Omneky combines generative AI and real-time advertising data. Mention "Cog Rev" for 10% off https://www.omneky.com/


    The Brave search API can be used to assemble a data set to train your AI models and help with retrieval augmentation at the time of inference. All while remaining affordable with developer first pricing, integrating the Brave search API into your workflow translates to more ethical data sourcing and more human representative data sets. Try the Brave search API for free for up to 2000 queries per month at https://bit.ly/BraveTCR


    Plumb is a no-code AI app builder designed for product teams who care about quality and speed. What is taking you weeks to hand-code today can be done confidently in hours. Check out https://bit.ly/PlumbTCR for early access.


    Head to Squad to access global engineering without the headache and at a fraction of the cost: head to https://choosesquad.com/ and mention “Turpentine” to skip the waitlist.


    CHAPTERS :

    (00:00) Introduction

    (10:16) AI and Creativity

    (14:37) Sponsor: Omneky

    (14:57) AI Research Development

    (20:05) Bridging Modalities

    (32:38) Sponsor: Brave / Plumb / Squad

    (35:36) Transformer Models and Techniques

    (52:32) Personal AI Research Setup

    (58:55) Leveraging Language Models for Coding

    (01:02:05) AI Model Development and Notion AI

    (01:22:05) Future of AI Models and App Development

    (01:32:51) Emerging Trends in AI

    1 hr 47 min
  • Data, data, everywhere - enough for AGI?

    In this podcast, Nathan and Nick dive deep into the data requirements for achieving Artificial General Intelligence. They explore the current paradigms, the role of data in approximating intelligence, and the scaling trends for GPT models. The discussion covers various datasets, from email and Twitter to YouTube and genomic data, as they analyze the feasibility of reaching the target of 100 trillion high-quality tokens. While the bull case suggests an abundance of data, the bear case highlights the limits on high-quality data, prompting a fascinating exploration of what makes data good for AI and the potential for AI to generate its own data.


    Sponsors

    Omneky is an omnichannel creative generation platform that lets you launch hundreds of thousands of ad iterations that actually work customized across all platforms, with a click of a button. Omneky combines generative AI and real-time advertising data. Mention "Cog Rev" for 10% off https://www.omneky.com/


    The Brave search API can be used to assemble a data set to train your AI models and help with retrieval augmentation at the time of inference. All while remaining affordable with developer first pricing, integrating the Brave search API into your workflow translates to more ethical data sourcing and more human representative data sets. Try the Brave search API for free for up to 2000 queries per month at https://bit.ly/BraveTCR


    Head to Squad to access global engineering without the headache and at a fraction of the cost: head to http://choosesquad.com/ and mention “Turpentine” to skip the waitlist.


    Plumb is a no-code AI app builder designed for product teams who care about quality and speed. What is taking you weeks to hand-code today can be done confidently in hours. Check out https://bit.ly/PlumbTCR for early access.


    Chapters 

    (00:00) Introduction

    (05:04) Scaling Hypothesis of Intelligence

    (07:32) Is There Enough High Quality Data?

    (10:19) Algorithms Impacting Data Requirements

    (17:42) Sponsor : Omneky

    (18:04) Estimating High Quality Token Requirements

    (24:07) Astronomy and YouTube Data Scale

    (29:42) Genomics Data

    (37:58) Sponsors : Brave / Plumb / Squad

    (41:16) Code Datasets and Synthetic Data

    (45:48) The Bear Case: Quality and Usability of Data

    (50:54) Investment Trends and Compute Efficiency

    (54:19) Training Run

    (57:21) Synthetic Data Generation and Self-Play

    1 hr 2 min
  • Inside China's AI Ecosystem: A View From Beijing

    In this episode, we explore the Chinese AI ecosystem with 'L-squared,' an anonymous tech worker based in Beijing. We discuss major players, model quality, public engagement, regulation, and the US 'chip ban.' Discover the similarities and differences between US and Chinese AI landscapes, and gain a nuanced perspective on the current state of AI in China.


    USEFUL RESOURCES:

    Testing Chinese models: Yi-34B-Chat (made by Kai-Fu Lee's team 01.AI) can be tried out via Replicate (https://replicate.com/01-ai/yi-34b-chat) or Hugging Face. You can also use the ChatGLM playground (https://open.bigmodel.cn/trialcenter) and Baidu's ERNIE (https://yiyan.baidu.com/) without a Chinese SIM card.


    Benchmarking models: SuperCLUE is one of the most prominent benchmarks - the latest results are on GitHub (https://github.com/CLUEbenchmark/SuperCLUE) and the paper explaining the methodology is here (https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.15020).


    Regulation: Explainer (https://carnegieendowment.org/2023/07/10/china-s-ai-regulations-and-how-they-get-made-pub-90117) from Matt Sheehan; piece (https://www.chinatalk.media/p/how-tight-ai-regs-hurt-chinese-firms) on how genAI regs are affecting Chinese companies.


    US-China competition: Jeff Ding's work (https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09692290.2023.2173633) on the diffusion deficit in S&T; Bloomberg piece (https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2023-china-huawei-semiconductor/) on Huawei's semiconductor development efforts.


    Staying up to date: Sign up to alerts from CSET's Scout tool (https://scout.eto.tech/); subscribe to Concordia AI's AI safety (https://aisafetychina.substack.com/) in China newsletter (disclaimer: I used to work at Concordia!)


    A 2016 profile (https://chinai.substack.com/p/chinai-37-happy-20th-anniversary) on Microsoft Research Asia by Wang Jingjing, covered in Jeff Ding's ChinAI newsletter


    SPONSORS:

    Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is a single platform for your infrastructure, database, application development, and AI needs. OCI has four to eight times the bandwidth of other clouds; offers one consistent price, instead of...does data better than Oracle. If you want to do more and spend less, take a free test drive of OCI at https://oracle.com/cognitive


    Omneky is an omnichannel creative generation platform that lets you launch hundreds of thousands of ad iterations that actually work customized across all platforms, with a click of a button. Omneky combines generative AI and real-time advertising data. Mention "Cog Rev" for 10% off http://www.omneky.com/


    The Brave search API can be used to assemble a data set to train your AI models and help with retrieval augmentation at the time of inference. All while remaining affordable with developer first pricing, integrating the Brave search API into your workflow translates to more ethical data sourcing and more human representative data sets. Try the Brave search API for free for up to 2000 queries per month at https://bit.ly/BraveTCR


    Head to Squad to access global engineering without the headache and at a fraction of the cost: head to choosesquad.com and mention “Turpentine” to skip the waitlist.


    Plumb is a no-code AI app builder designed for product teams who care about quality and speed. What is taking you weeks to hand-code today can be done confidently in hours. Check out https://bit.ly/PlumbTCR for early access.


    TIMESTAMPS:

    (00:00) Introduction

    (07:24) China's AI Ecosystem

    (13:40) Public AI Engagement

    (17:33) Sponsors : OCI / Omneky

    (18:50) AI Tools Comparison

    (35:37) Sponsors : Brave / Squad / Plumb

    (39:14) AI Regulatory Maze

    (51:02) AI Performance, Censorship

    (55:28) Chinese AI Regulations

    (01:04:37) Tech, Research Role

    (01:12:11) Global AI Ecosystem

    (01:23:22) Cultural AI Perspectives

    (01:29:14) AI Safety, Cooperation



    1 hr 37 min
  • The AI Email Assistant I've Been Waiting for, with Andrew Lee of Shortwave

    In this episode, Nathan sits down with Andrew Lee, founder of Shortwave, an AI-powered email app that describes itself as “the smartest email app on planet earth.” They discuss Shortwave’s RAG stack, how the AI assistant works, the models Shortwave is using, and much more. This is truly a masterclass in RAG app development.


    Sponsors : 

    Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is a single platform for your infrastructure, database, application development, and AI needs. OCI has four to eight times the bandwidth of other clouds; offers one consistent price, and nobody does data better than Oracle. If you want to do more and spend less, take a free test drive of OCI at https://oracle.com/cognitive


    The Brave search API can be used to assemble a data set to train your AI models and help with retrieval augmentation at the time of inference. All while remaining affordable with developer first pricing, integrating the Brave search API into your workflow translates to more ethical data sourcing and more human representative data sets. Try the Brave search API for free for up to 2000 queries per month at https://bit.ly/BraveTCR


    Plumb is a no-code AI app builder designed for product teams who care about quality and speed. What is taking you weeks to hand-code today can be done confidently in hours. Check out https://bit.ly/PlumbTCR for early access.


    Head to Squad to access global engineering without the headache and at a fraction of the cost: head to choosesquad.com and mention “Turpentine” to skip the waitlist.


    TIMESTAMPS:

    (00:00) - Intro

    (01:07) - Shortwave: AI-Powered Email

    (06:22) - Genesis of Shortwave

    (15:25) - Sponsors: Oracle / Omneky

    (16:46) - Data Processing Pipeline

    (21:57) - Choosing a Vector Database

    (26:34) - How the AI Assistant Works

    (36:24) - Sponsors: Brave / Plumb / Squad

    (40:53) - Fine-Tuning & Hosting Models

    (45:11) - Email Automation

    (47:55) - Email Retrieval

    (51:44) - Optimizing AI Performance

    (53:20) - Safety & Embedded Ethics

    (01:04:51) - Strategic Product Launches

    (01:09:58) - Inbox Management

    (01:12:24) - The Future of Collaborative AI

    (01:18:54) - Scaling Personalized Outreach

    (01:26:04) - Closing Thoughts & What's Next

    1 hr 26 min

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A biweekly podcast where hosts Nathan Labenz and Erik Torenberg interview the builders on the edge of AI and explore the dramatic shift it will unlock in the coming years.

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