Percy Liang is Associate Professor of Computer Science and Statistics, and Director of the new Center for Research on Foundation Models at Stanford University. We discussed a new suit of tools (HELM) designed to help users and researchers understand language models in their totality. We also discuss recent trends in AI including the rise of Generative AI and Foundation Models.

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Jenn Webb, special correspondent and managing editor at Gradient Flow, recently organized a mini-panel to discuss themes and trends for 2023. The panel consisted of myself and Mikio Braun. More information on these trends can be found in our Annual Trends Report, which is available for free download (see details below).

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Given the growing interest in Generative AI, we revisit a conversation with Mark Chen, Research Scientist at OpenAI and part of the team behind DALL·E 2, a new AI system that can create realistic images and art based on natural language descriptions. 

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On this special end of the year episode, we revisit conversations with two data science leaders in the e-commerce space:

1. Wendy Foster, Director, Engineering & Data Science at Shopify.
2. Olivia Liao, Senior Director of Data Science at Stitch Fix.

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Shayan Mohanty is the CEO of Watchful, a modern and interactive solution that places the control of data labeling back in the hands of data scientists, machine learning practitioners, and subject matter experts. This podcast focuses on a data management system (written in Rust) they built to support the level of automation and interactivity required to support Watchful.

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Frank Liu is Director of Operations & ML Architect at Zilliz, the company behind Milvus,  an open source vector database. We discuss their recent VLDB paper (“A Cloud Native Vector Database Management System”) that describes recent updates to Milvus, as well as vector databases and vector search in general.

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Ira Cohen is co-founder, Chief Data Scientist at Anodot, a startup that uses time series tools to monitor  business data in real time, so organizations can proactively resolve revenue, cost, and customer experience issues before they impact business performance. We recently wrote a well-received post that provided a detailed overview on the state of technologies for collecting, storing, and unlocking time series. 

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Roy Schwartz is Professor of Natural Language Processing at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. We discussed a recent survey paper that Roy co-wrote that presented a broad overview of existing methods to improve NLP efficiency through the lens of traditional NLP pipelines. 

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On this Thanksgiving holiday weekend in the U.S., we revisit a Twitter Spaces conversation I had with

• Andrew Burt, Managing Partner at BNH1, the first law firm focused on AI risks.
• Bob Friday, Chief AI Officer at Juniper Networks.

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Hung Bui is the CEO of VinAI, a premier Artificial Intelligence research-based company developing world-class products and services. Hung assembled the VinAI team just over three years ago and they are now among the Top 20 Global Companies in AI Research in 2022. 

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