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15:10ENAGI Beyond Chatbots: A 2023 Debate on Autonomy and SafetyA historical review of competing definitions, forecasts and safety proposals from AI leaders in September 2023.
1:08:23ENNikhil Basu Trivedi on Small Funds, Early Traction and Venture JudgmentGuest Nikhil Basu Trivedi · Host Harry StebbingsThe Footwork co-founder discusses fund size, the evidence he seeks before investing, portfolio decisions and his caution about the 2023 AI funding cycle.
4:35ENRunning WizardCoder on a Cloud GPU: A 2023 RunPod WalkthroughMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman demonstrates downloading a quantized 13B coding model into a hosted text-generation interface, then explains how to stop the pod and avoid ongoing charges.
1:20:06ENAccuracy Dropped From 93% to 7% — Cryptography Wants to Put a Dashcam on AIHost Nathan LabenzDaniel Kang explains how zero-knowledge proofs could verify that a model ran as promised, and that a user is human, without exposing weights or biometrics.
54:10ENMudassir Sheikha on Building Careem and the Uber AcquisitionGuest Mudassir Sheikha · Host Harry StebbingsThe Careem co-founder recounts an SMS-based launch, competing with a better-funded rival, board tensions and the decision to sell.
14:59ENAI News in September 2023: Tesla, Code Llama, Drone Racing and CopyrightMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman surveys a week of AI announcements, from Tesla's driving demonstration and ChatGPT Enterprise to model releases, generative media and a copyright inquiry.
2:18:25ENGrow Everything: Neri Oxman on Giving Nature a VoteGuest Neri Oxman · Host Lex FridmanThe designer-scientist who left MIT to build OXMAN talks silkworm pavilions, bees in space, and why the end of human agency might be the start of nature's.
36:33ENNoam Shazeer on Character.AI, the Cost of Training Models and the Uses of General AIGuest Noam Shazeer · Host Harry StebbingsThe Character.AI co-founder explains his consumer strategy, language-model training and why he expects users to invent applications the company cannot predict.
38:13ENChatGPT Runs on His Framework. He Still Doesn't Want You Training a ModelHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilVercel founder Guillermo Rauch tells No Priors why frontend is the last mile of AI, why first-generation AI frameworks will be rewritten, and why bots are already stealing your tokens.
1:01:09ENHugging Face Raised $235M. Community Still Is Not a MoatHost Nathan LabenzNathan Labenz and Erik Torenberg unpack Hugging Face's $4.5 billion Series D, and why a thriving open-source hub may still struggle to become a locked-in business.
6:11ENRunning WizardCoder Locally with Text Generation WebUIMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman walks through a 2023 setup for a quantized Code Llama-based coding model, from the Python environment to a simple test prompt.
0:23ENWhy Product Quality Matters After the SaleGuest Meltem Kuran BerkowitzMeltem Kuran Berkowitz on customer expectations in business software.
10:20ENPhind Code Llama 34B vs GPT-4: A 2023 Python Coding TestMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman compares a quantized Phind fine-tune with GPT-4 on games, short functions and refactoring, with mixed results.
55:08ENOne Model Inside 38 Products: Paige Bailey on How Google Trains and Ships PaLM 2Host Nathan LabenzAt Google I/O in May 2023, PaLM 2 arrived already running in more than two dozen products — and its lead product manager walks through what that actually took.
6:28ENA Historical GPT-3.5 Fine-Tuning WalkthroughMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman demonstrates generating synthetic examples in Colab and training a model to use a distinctive tone.
52:48ENCris Valenzuela on Creative AI, Runway and Building Through ChangeGuest Cris Valenzuela · Host Harry StebbingsRunway’s co-founder discusses early experimentation with video models, creative work, hiring and fundraising, and answers questions about the writers’ strike.
56:44ENHowie Liu on Airtable’s Enterprise Strategy and AI AdoptionGuest Howie Liu · Host Harry StebbingsThe Airtable founder discusses product-led growth, enterprise buying, AI implementation and the work that follows product-market fit.
16:22ENAI News in August 2023: Models, Copyright Disputes and the Business of AIMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman reviews a week of AI releases and legal battles, from Python in Excel and Meta's translation model to copyright and personalized feeds.
52:48ENOpenAI Cut Fine-Tuning 90 Percent, and Founders Crossed Llama 2 Off the ListHost Nathan LabenzNathan Labenz and Erik Torenberg walk through GPT-3.5 Turbo fine-tuning, why self-hosting still loses on total cost, and what is actually working in code, school, and medicine.
35:24ENThe Author of Attention Is All You Need Now Compiles mRNA Like BytecodeHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilJakob Uszkoreit on why Transformers won, why models spend compute on the wrong things, and why drug discovery has to become generation rather than screening.
15:49ENMatthew Berman on AI Adoption, Hype and the Case for CautionMatthew Berman · Forward FutureA 2023 response to a skeptical assessment of ChatGPT and Bing weighs early usage patterns, creative work and AI risks.
3:23ENLori Jiménez on Listening, Sales Leadership and RetentionGuest Lori Jiménez · Host Harry StebbingsA quickfire discussion of hiring expectations, remote selling and customer success.
1:12:29ENJason Lemkin and Rick Zullo Debate Venture Fund Size, Paper Marks and Founder RelationshipsGuest Jason Lemkin, Rick Zullo · Host Harry StebbingsThe investors disagree over pitching and portfolio construction while examining how fund economics shape founders, boards and returns.
24:40ENTim Urban on Curiosity, Research and the Writing ProcessGuest Tim Urban · Host Harry StebbingsThe Wait But Why writer explains how he chooses questions, learns unfamiliar subjects and turns research into stories for curious readers.
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