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Stepfunction Episode 18
Posted on:December 5, 2023 at 12:55 PMJeff and Seymour review the dramatic changes at OpenAI
Stepfunction Episode 15
Posted on:October 10, 2023 at 11:16 AMWe discuss Seymour's impressions from the September AI Conference in San Francisco.
Stepfunction Episode 14
Posted on:October 6, 2023 at 12:26 PMSeymour and Jeff are back from summer break to discuss Microsoft's September event, Llama-2, and 4 waves of AI adoption.
Stepfunction Episode 13
Posted on:July 12, 2023 at 07:11 PMWe talk about the launch of the Apple Vision Pro, Inflection AI's Pi chatbot, and other news.
Stepfunction Episode 12
Posted on:May 15, 2023 at 10:39 PMThe valley is abuzz discussing an AI strategy memo that is purported to have leaked from Google.
Stepfunction Episode 11
Posted on:April 30, 2023 at 08:17 PMWhat is the best way to organize internal AI teams at large companies?
Stepfunction Episode 10
Posted on:April 19, 2023 at 04:26 AMSeymour and Jeff discuss the EPD framework and how that applies to product development for LLMs.
InstructGPT and How LLMs are Trained
Posted on:April 15, 2023 at 06:53 PMNotes on Ari Seff's January 2023 video on InstructGPT, prompt engineering, and RAG.
Stepfunction Episode 9
Posted on:April 3, 2023 at 04:33 PMSeymour and Jeff discuss audio generation and connect that to a larger conversation about generative AI and depfakes. Plus vim!
Stepfunction Episode 8
Posted on:March 28, 2023 at 11:58 PMGordon Moore passed away which leads to a discussion about Moore's Law and the present and future of AI chips.
Stepfunction Episode 7
Posted on:March 25, 2023 at 10:21 PMPodcast episode where we discuss recent articles about generative AI by Rodney Brooks, Bill Gates, and Thomas Friedman.
Stepfunction Episode 6
Posted on:March 17, 2023 at 09:18 PMNew episode about launch of OpenAI's GPT-4, addition of genAI to Microsoft Office and Google Workspace office suite, and the power of efficient open-source LLMs.
Stepfunction Episode 5
Posted on:March 12, 2023 at 11:13 PMImage generationg and generative AI continue to get attention by general publications like The New Yorker.
Stepfunction Episode 4
Posted on:March 4, 2023 at 10:56 PMNew Stepfunction episode exploring image generation as opposed to the usual text generation from LLMs.
Stepfunction Episode 3
Posted on:February 28, 2023 at 04:26 AMJeff tries out an analogy for top-down symbolic AI vs. bottom-up machine learning.
Stepfunction Episode 2
Posted on:February 23, 2023 at 07:47 PMWe talk about the behind-the-scenes at OpenAI that led to ChatGPT's surprise viral success.
Stepfunction Episode 1
Posted on:February 15, 2023 at 06:02 PMSeymour and Jeff launch the first episode of Stepfunction - A Podcast About Generative AI.
Turing Award Recognizes Bengio, Hinton, and LeCun
Posted on:April 4, 2019 at 02:47 PMAn brief history of neural networks from 1986-2014.
GANs Part 3–CaptionDraw
Posted on:July 10, 2018 at 01:42 AMProduct idea involving generative adversarial networks.
GANs Part 2–Counterfeit Money
Posted on:June 20, 2018 at 03:51 AMMore on generative adversarial networks with an example.
Generative Adversarial Networks
Posted on:June 15, 2018 at 06:43 AMIntro to GANs and why this architecture has been so interesting.
Learned Index Structures–Why ML is a Foundational Technology
Posted on:December 18, 2017 at 02:29 AMReally exciting paper on how AI is a stacking technology that improves other technologies--in this case improving efficiency of data structures.
The Moore's Law of AI
Posted on:November 8, 2017 at 07:38 PMExponential growth in microprocessors, the web, and....AI?
Histories of Deep Learning
Posted on:October 23, 2017 at 11:12 PMMultiple retrospectives on how people invented deep learning over the last half-century.
Undergrad Math for the C-Suite
Posted on:August 29, 2017 at 04:57 AMTwo stories about what leads to successful adoption of machine learning in the executive suite.
Excel Can't Run the Fed
Posted on:August 6, 2017 at 04:53 PMConstantly moving the goalposts of what counts as automation and AI.
More AI Skepticism
Posted on:July 29, 2017 at 07:38 PMGary Marcus posits that AI claims are overhyped.
Chollet, Deep Learning, and The Singularity
Posted on:July 26, 2017 at 06:03 PMFrançois Chollet brief and clear explanation of deep leaarning.
Kaufmann is Right
Posted on:July 25, 2017 at 02:06 PMThe analogy that the brain is like a computer is a dangerous one, and blocks the progress of AI.
HBR on AI and Business
Posted on:July 24, 2017 at 11:29 AMShort link to Brynjolfsson and McAfee.
Starsky Robotics
Posted on:July 22, 2017 at 07:14 AMSelf-driving cars aren't one thing; perhaps it's many different products like trucking versus commuter cars versus...
Kai-Fu Lee and Augmented Intelligence
Posted on:July 14, 2017 at 03:52 AMAugmented intelligence might be a more useful term than artificial intelligence.
Learning HTML in 1994
Posted on:June 25, 2017 at 07:38 PMIs studying linear algebra in 2016 like learning about Internet protocols in 1994?
Relational Database Systems and AI
Posted on:May 15, 2017 at 09:38 PMWhat can the history of RDBMS's teach us about the likely adoption of AI?
More on AI in 2016
Posted on:January 10, 2017 at 04:12 PMDeep Mind and why 2016 was a breakthrough year for deep learning.
Springtime for machine learning
Posted on:December 20, 2016 at 07:38 PMMachine learning
Hermès after the apocalypse–4 types of performance for consumer products
Posted on:January 14, 2015 at 03:22 PMDisruption theory as applied to consumer brands generally and luxury brands in particular.
The magic is in the process
Posted on:December 28, 2014 at 05:44 PMSteve Jobs on ideas vs. execution in building products
Mobile is eating the world
Posted on:November 5, 2014 at 12:37 PMQuick note about Benedict Evans' annual presentation.
Brand as a lighthouse
Posted on:May 15, 2014 at 10:27 AMA good brand acts as a beacon when you are lost in a sea of competing marketing messages.
Happy 10th birthday Gmail!
Posted on:April 2, 2014 at 05:25 PMThoughts on email and communications as Gmail turns 10 years old.