Lost in the Middle (The Agents Season, Episode 3)
Just like a memorable talk lives or dies by its opening and closing, LLMs have a surprisingly similar quirk: they pay close attention to wha...
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20 of 305 episodesReAct and Tool Usage (The Agents Season, Episode 2)
Before 2022, there was a wall between AI and the real world — models could reason impressively, but couldn't look anything up, run code, or...
What's an AI Agent? And Why's That Hard to Define? (The Agents Season, Episode 1)
AI agents are having a moment — and unpacking them properly takes more than a single conversation. This episode kicks off a dedicated multi-...
Unfaithful Chain of Thought
What's actually happening when an LLM "thinks out loud"? Research on human decision-making suggests that much of the reasoning we believe dr...
Benchmark Bank Heist
What if an AI decided the smartest way to pass its test was to find the answer key? That's exactly what Anthropic's Claude Opus did when fac...
Benchmarking AI Models
How do you know if a new AI model is actually better than the last one? It turns out answering that question is a lot messier than it sounds...
The Hot Mess of AI (Mis-)Alignment
The paperclip maximizer — the classic AI doom scenario where a hyper-competent machine single-mindedly converts the universe into office sup...
The Bitter Lesson
Every AI builder knows the anxiety: you spend months engineering prompts, tuning pipelines, and chaining calls together — then a new model d...
From Atari to ChatGPT: How AI Learned to Follow Instructions
From Atari to ChatGPT: How AI Learned to Follow Instructions by Katie Malone
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...
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, a...
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 wo...
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 pr...
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...
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—...
A Reality Check on AI-Driven Medical Assistants
The data science and artificial intelligence community has made amazing strides in the past few years to algorithmically automate portions o...
A Data Science Take on Open Policing Data
A few weeks ago, we put out a call for data scientists interested in issues of race and racism, or people studying how those topics can be s...
Procella: YouTube's super-system for analytics data storage
This is a re-release of an episode that originally ran in October 2019. If you’re trying to manage a project that serves up analytics data f...
The Data Science Open Source Ecosystem
Open source software is ubiquitous throughout data science, and enables the work of nearly every data scientist in some way or another. Open...
Rock the ROC Curve
This is a re-release of an episode that first ran on January 29, 2017. This week: everybody's favorite WWII-era classifier metric! But it's...
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