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Daniel Reid Cahn

Thinking Machines: AI & Philosophy

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Daniel Reid Cahn

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Dev Rishi is the founder and CEO of Predibase, the company behind Ludwig and LoRAX. Predibase just released LoRA Land, a technical report showing 310 models that can outcompete GPT-4 on specific tasks through fine-tuning. In this episode, Dev t
Talfan Evans is a research engineer at DeepMind, where he focuses on data curation and foundational research for pre-training LLMs and multimodal models like Gemini. I ask Talfan: Will one model rule them all?What does "high quality data" actua
"Understanding what's going on in a model is important to fine-tune it for specific tasks and to build trust."Bhavna Gopal is a PhD candidate at Duke, research intern at Slingshot with experience at Apple, Amazon and Vellum.We discussHow advers
Chris Gagne manages AI research at Hume, which just released an expressive text-to-speech model in a super impressive demo. Chris and Daniel discuss AI and emotional understanding:How does “prosody” add a dimension to human communication? What
Former OpenAI Research Scientist Joel Lehman joins to discuss the non-linear nature of technological progress and the present day implications of his book, Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned.Joel co-authored the book with Kenneth Stanley back in 2
“Where are the good AI products?” asks Varun Shenoy, ML engineer in his latest blog post. Varun and I talk through:What are the cool applications that exist? Why aren't there more of them?What do (the few) good AI application companies have in
ML Engineer and tech writer Donato Riccio wrote an article entitled "The End of RAG?" discussing what might replace Retrieval Augmented Generation in the near future. The article was received as highly controversial within the AI echo chamber,
What’s going on with GPUs? We talk through the GPU bottleneck/supply gut, Meta’s apparent 600,000 H100-equivalents and the future of the GPU cloud.Neel Master is the CEO and founder of Cedana, enabling pause/migrate/resume for compute jobs. Nee
Founders of Lingopal, Deven Orie and Casey Schneider, join to talk about their startup story, developing real-time translation software for enterprises.Topics include:Why is translation so hard?How are enterprise and consumer AI products differ
Founder of the SafeLlama community, Enoch Kan joins us today, to talk about safety in open source and medical AI. Enoch previously worked in AI for radiology, focused on mammography at Kheiron Medical. Enoch is an open source contributor, and h
Join Daniel Cahn on another SlingTalk episode with Kristian Freed (ex-CTO at Pariti and Elder), discussing the past, present and future of AI-assisted or AI-driven software.They talked about:The Evolution of Coding Tools: From basic text editor
In 1950, Alan Turing asked, “Can machines think?” He suggested the Imitation Game as a test to evaluate whether a machine can think, more commonly called the “Turing Test.” Today we ask, is the Turing Test outdated? Joining Slingtalks this week
Join Daniel Cahn on SlingTalks as he welcomes Jonathan Pedoeem (Founder of PromptLayer) to talk through Prompt Engineering. This episode offers an in-depth look into the past, present, and future of prompt engineering and the intricacies of cra
Adam Kirsh (Head of Product & Engineering, Stealth Startup) joins Slingshot to talk about how AI is transforming investment due diligence.Beyond AI in diligence, we discuss:“Horizontal” and “vertical” business models, that start from a point so
Ex-Datadog Founding PM, Ayush Kapur, joins Daniel Cahn on SlingTalks to talk through the overloaded term, "Human in the Loop". They hone in on the impact of both, emotional and philosophical aspects of human interactions, for instance, your int
AI is increasingly doing the heavy lifting in our communications and content generation. On this episode, Guilherme Freire, Founding ML Engineer at Slingshot, joins the podcast to discuss the impact of AI-generated content.Some of the topics di
Daniel hosts our machine learning research intern and Cambridge Masters student, Andy Lo, to talk about the present and future of ML programming. Topics include:PyTorch vs. TensorFlow vs. Jax vs MoJoNo-code, low-code and pro-code for ML enginee
In this episode, Daniel shares his perspective on the opportunities for the next wave of AI-native startups.Machine Learning isn’t just about sentiment classification, churn prediction, and revenue forecasting anymore. Generative models can sim
In this episode, Daniel shares his perspective on the opportunities for the next wave of AI-native startups.Machine Learning isn’t just about sentiment classification, churn prediction, and revenue forecasting anymore. Generative models can sim
Daniel hosts our Founding Engineer, Edwin Zhang to unravel the balance in Design Driven Developments. Key things they cover:The conundrums faced when balancing user wants with real, valuable needs - showcasing our stance on "Doing what people n
In this tech talk, we dive deep into the technical specifics around LLM inference.The big question is: Why are LLMs slow? How can they be faster? And might slow inference affect UX in the next generation of AI-powered software?We jump into:Is f
This episode delves into the ongoing debate of the competitiveness between open-source and closed-source models and the reasons behind Meta's decision to publish Llama2 with a permissive open-source licenseWe cover:How much bigger can closed-so
Ever seen a piece of work and thought, "Wow, a machine did that?" In our very first Slingtalk episode, we unravel the broad world of AI and where creativity plays a part in the process. We cover:- AI models and consciousness- Poetry in language
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