Best Unsupervised Show Podcasts (2025)

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Ep 69: Co-Founder of Databricks & LMArena on Current Eval Limitations, Why China is Winning Open Source and Future of AI Infrastructure 54:57

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Ion Stoica helped define the modern data stack. Now he’s coming for AI evaluation. From co-founding Databricks and Anyscale to launching LMArena, Ion has shaped the infrastructure underlying some of the biggest shifts in computing. In this conversation, he unpacks what most people get wrong about model evaluation, the infrastructure challenges ahea…

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Two Besties. One. Wild. Idea. 29:49

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🎙 Episode 1: Two Besties. One. Wild. Idea. Hosts: Jennifer Hobbs & Jackie Schroeder Podcast: Slightly Unsupervised Summary: In the debut episode of Slightly Unsupervised, best friends Jennifer and Jackie dive into the heart of how Bestiemony® was born—from a wild idea during a bestie weekend to a fully trademarked ceremony honoring the one relation…

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That's No Moon: Bluey strikes again! 2:00:50

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Hello there! Another weekend and another GT takes place. This time the Harasser of Hounds, The Digester of Dog, The Canine Cuisine King went on to win the latest GT in the UK at UKGE. In this episode we dive into UKGE and talk about Andys win as well and Jacks above average output at a great event held recently in the UK. If you like what you hear …

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Ep 68: CEO of Mercor Brendan Foody on Evals Replacing Knowledge Work, AI x Hiring Today & the Future of Data Labeling 44:03

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Brendan Foody is the co-founder and CEO of Mercor, a company building the infrastructure for AI-native labor markets. Mercor’s platform is already used by top AI labs to label data, evaluate human and AI candidates, and make performance-driven hiring decisions. They’re operating at the intersection of recruiting, evals, and foundation model develop…

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That's No Moon: Post WTC 2025 Review 2:14:57

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Hello there! WTC 2025 is in the books and a new team stands a top of the globe as the kings of Legion. After last years outstanding performance by Team France led by Antoine Granet he the title heads over the English Channel to England with a team led by Dave Grant. Dave and his very humble team (proclaimed the all stars) of Dave, Geoff Porrit, Lyl…

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Ep 67: Max Junestrand (CEO, Legora) on Differentiating and Pricing AI Apps & How the Legal Industry Will Evolve 44:09

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Jacob and Logan sit down with Max Junestrand, founder and CEO of Legora - a rapidly growing legal AI platform (and Redpoint portfolio company). After announcing their Series B last week, Max joined the show to discuss why law is uniquely suited for AI, what it takes to scale an enterprise-ready product across global markets, and a few crazy moments…

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Ep 66: Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic Sholto Douglas on Claude 4, Next Phase for AI Coding, and the Path to AI Coworkers 57:45

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Sholto Douglas, a Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic, joined Unsupervised Learning to break down why coding is the clearest early signal of model progress, how AI agents are already accelerating research, and what it’ll take to unlock real-world breakthroughs in fields like biology and robotics. (0:00) Intro (0:48) Claude 4 (1:30) Capabilities …

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That's No Moon: Episode 62 - Legion does Eurovision 1:43:18

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Hello there! This week we preview the WTC tournament being held in Sheffield where over 100 player representing their countries will duke it out to see whos top dog. Last year the French were crowned the first WTC champions... the question is who, if any, will take their crown. We are joined by Patrik representing Sweden and Seweryn representing Po…

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That's No Moon - A WTC 2025 Special 3:03:39

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Hello there! Strap yourselves in for a marathon of legion lists. Andy and Kokozula review the lists form the teams competing at the World Team Championships this year in Sheffield. Form your EXDs to your Landos and everything in between, tune in for some great insight on what will be a great event. For information about events head to https://www.l…

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Ep 65: Co-Authors of AI-2027 Daniel Kokotajlo and Thomas Larsen On Their Detailed AI Predictions for the Coming Years 1:23:27

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The recent AI 2027 report sparked widespread discussion with its stark warnings about the near-term risks of unaligned AI. Authors @Daniel Kokotajlo (former OpenAI researcher now focused full-time on alignment through his nonprofit, @AI Futures, and one of TIME’s 100 most influential people in AI) and @Thomas Larsen joined the show to unpack their …

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181: Memory Management 1:46:21

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Intro topic: Video Game Prices News/Links: Step one: Jump in the Lava - Abyssoft https://youtu.be/WdadpHLAfdA?si=oXYnhB0EdkR_RaPE Scalable world models for continuous control https://www.tdmpc2.com/ Clever code is probably the worst code you could write - Engineer’s Codex https://read.engineerscodex.com/p/clever-code-is-probably-the-worst A new, op…

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Ep 64: GPT 4.1 Lead at OpenAI Michelle Pokrass: RFT Launch, How OpenAI Improves Its Models & the State of AI Agents Today 47:12

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In this episode, I sit down with Michelle Pokrass, who leads a research team at OpenAI within post-training focused on improving models for power users: developers using OpenAI models in the API and power users in ChatGPT. We unpack how OpenAI prioritized instruction-following and long context, why evals have a 3-month shelf life, what separates su…

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That's No Moon: Episode 61 - Pure unsupervised madness 2:17:54

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Hello there! Episode 61 brings you pure chaos a Cockles is on holiday so the boys are let loose, Discussions about many vs few activations as well as some game reviews take place in this show. Expect some comedy as well as Olly returns. For information about events head to https://www.legionevents.app/ If you like what you hear and want to support …

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Ep 63: Khan Academy Founder/CEO on Salman Khan on Classrooms in 20 years, Rolling out to 1.4M Users & Sal’s Hopes for AI Education 50:53

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When Khan Academy launched Khanmigo, Salman Khan thought they might reach 100k users by 2025. Today, they’re at 1.4 million. 🎧 Sal joined us on Unsupervised Learning to talk about AI's role in education— from the vantage point of someone deploying it at scale. As founder of Khan Academy, he’s overseen the rollout of AI tools to over a million teach…

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That's No Moon: Episode 60 - Lando of Hope and Glory 2:07:20

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Hello There! TNM Turns 60 this show and we talk about recent changes. We obviously cant go into every minute detail but we bloody try. From Jyn to Lando to Kallus and Iden Versio we break down the re work of the units and then talk about changes to the game such as cover and how command cards have been tweaked. For information about events head to …

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Ep 62: CEO of Cohere Aidan Gomez on Scaling Limits Emerging, AI Use-cases with PMF & Life After Transformers 50:44

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Aidan joined this week’s Unsupervised Learning for a wide-ranging conversation on model architectures, enterprise adoption, and what’s breaking in the foundation model stack. If you’re building or investing in AI infrastructure, Aidan is worth listening to. He co-authored the original Transformer paper, leads one of the most advanced model labs out…

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That's No Moon: Episode 59 - A New Hope 2:22:37

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Hello There! All hail the new king of legion Isaiah who joins us on this show as we dive into worlds 2025 and review the event and talk games form Andy and Isaiah's perspective. Isaiah also talks about his list and how his ideas came to fruition. From ISPs to Clone Commandos and the unused impact grenades in between. We also remember David 'Paul' B…

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Ep 61: Redpoint’s AI Investors Break Down What Separates Enduring AI Companies from the Hype 43:28

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At Redpoint’s annual meeting with investors, Redpoint partners Scott Raney, Alex Bard, Patrick Chase and Jacob Effron shared unfiltered thoughts on some of the most topical questions in AI today, where value will accrue, which industries are best positioned for defensibility at the application layer, and more. (0:00) Intro (0:39) AI Investment Land…

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Ep 60: Swyx and Alessio (Latent Space) on What has PMF Today, Google is Cooking & GPT Wrappers are Winning 1:01:30

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To unpack some of the most topical questions in AI, I’m joined by two fellow AI podcasters: Swyx and Alessio Fanelli, co-hosts of the Latent Space podcast. We’ve been wanting to do a cross-over episode for a while and finally made it happen. Swyx brings deep experience from his time at AWS, Temporal, and Airbyte, and is now focused on AI agents and…

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Ep 59: OpenAI Product & Eng Leads Nikunj Handa and Steve Coffey on OpenAI’s New Agent Development Tools 44:37

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Two weeks ago, OpenAI released its set of tools to help developers build agentic systems. Today on Unsupervised Learning, Nikunj Handa (Product Lead) and Steve Coffey (Eng Lead) answer some of the biggest questions around how developers should be thinking about building in the agentic paradigm in 2025. (0:00) Intro (0:53) OpenAI’s Vision for Consum…

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That's No Moon - Worlds 2025 Preview 1:44:40

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Hello there! A one off show drops with a preview from the Mooners of what they expect to see (or not) at Adepticon 2025 and more specifically Legion World Championships 2025. The Mooners are joined by the captain of streaming himself Dave "Endless" Zelenka and we give our takes on what to expect list wise and event wise from Adepticon in Milwaukee …

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Ep 58: Google Researchers Noam Shazeer and Jack Rae on Scaling Test-time Compute, Reactions to Ilya & AGI 1:09:28

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On the latest episode of Unsupervised Learning, Jacob is joined by two of the most influential minds in AI today. 🔹 Noam Shazeer, co-inventor of the Transformer 🔹 Jack Rae, Research Director at DeepMind and one of the leads behind Gemini’s Flash Thinking We got to ask them all of the top-of-mind questions in AI today about where we are, where we’re…

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180: Reinforcement Learning 1:52:22

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Intro topic: Grills News/Links: You can’t call yourself a senior until you’ve worked on a legacy project https://www.infobip.com/developers/blog/seniors-working-on-a-legacy-project Recraft might be the most powerful AI image platform I’ve ever used — here’s why https://www.tomsguide.com/ai/ai-image-video/recraft-might-be-the-most-powerful-ai-image-…

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That's No Moon: Episode 58 - Breaking-through Bad 1:47:38

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Hello There! This week its the turn of Breakthrough and Bring them to Heel in our continuation of how to play missions and secondary missions. To help us with this we welcome Timbo from Canada and we rejoice in the presence of the Reverend Podfrey. We also review a list sent to us from a patron supporter and share some news and information about up…

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That's No Moon: Episode 58 - Breaking-through Badly 1:47:38

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Hello There! This week its the turn of Breakthrough and Bring them to Heel in our continuation of how to play missions and secondary missions. To help us with this we welcome Timbo from Canada and we rejoice in the presence of the Reverend Podfrey. We also review a list sent to us from a patron supporter and share some news and information about up…

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Ep 57: Former CTO of Meta Mike Schroepfer on the Path to Powering the AI Revolution 44:47

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On today’s Unsupervised Learning, Mike Schroepfer (ex-CTO of Meta and founder of Gigascale Capital) reveals why energy is a key bottleneck holding AI progress back. Mike discusses how we can scale energy production to democratize AI globally and explores AI’s role in climate change. He also reflects on a decade as Meta’s CTO and how AI coding is tr…

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Ep 56: Distinguished Engineer at Waymo Vincent Vanhoucke Unpacks the Breakthroughs and Bottlenecks of Self-Driving 1:13:01

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Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver. The company operates a 24/7 public ride-hail service and provides over 150,000 trips each week across San Francisco, Los Angeles, Phoenix, and Austin, making mobility more accessible, sustainable, and safer for everyone. In this week’s episode …

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Ep 55: Head of Amazon AGI Lab David Luan on DeepSeek’s Significance, What’s Next for Agents & Lessons from OpenAI 43:49

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David is an OG in AI who has been at the forefront of many of the major breakthroughs of the past decade. His resume: VP of Engineering at OpenAI, a key contributor to Google Brain, co-founder of Adept, and now leading Amazon’s SF AGI Lab. In this episode we focused on how far test-time compute gets us, the real implications of DeepSeek, what agent…

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That's No Moon: Episode 57 - When Assaulting Bunkers 2:03:03

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Hello There! This week in episode 57 we re back to the OG trio and a very sharply dressed Olly. We discuss a recent UK event that featured the Creme de la Creme of UK legion players plus a bloke that play LAATS and how these games are shaping, guiding and influencing Olly and Andy as they gear up for worlds at the end of March. We also continue our…

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That's No Moon: Episode 56 - How does one close a pocket? 1:53:46

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Hello there! Episode 56 drops for your audio pleasure where we bring in a new feature... "How to" Each week the boys will discuss how to play missions and secondaries and offer suggestions as to the best way to win and also things to avoid. This week we talk about Close the Pocket and Marked Targets. To help us offer the most tactically sound advic…

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179: Project Planning 1:43:00

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Intro topic: Lego event space & retail store: https://www.instagram.com/bambeecave News/Links: StackOverflow Question Count Going Down https://gist.github.com/hopeseekr/f522e380e35745bd5bdc3269a9f0b132 DeepSeek claims its ‘reasoning’ model beats OpenAI’s o1 on certain benchmarks https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/20/deepseek-claims-its-reasoning-model-…

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Ep 54: Princeton Researcher Arvind Narayanan on the Limitations of Agent Evals, AI’s Societal Impact & Important Lessons from History 57:09

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Arvind Narayanan is one of the leading voices in AI when it comes to cutting through the hype. As a Princeton professor and co-author of AI Snake Oil, he’s one of the most thoughtful voices cautioning against both unfounded fears and overblown promises in AI. In this episode, Arvind dissects the future of AI in education, its parallels to past tech…

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That's No Moon: Episode 55 - A man with a penchant for canines and two rotund Gingers 1:58:19

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Hello there! Episode 55 brings some interesting discussions and reactions from the Nottingham GT and LVO. Andy also brings up tournament etiquette for debate and we round off with a list breakdown. Oh and we have 2 guests on as well in the form of the reverend Podfrey and Floridian Jesus, AKA Austin Miller. For information about events head to http…

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Ep 53: SemiAnalysis Founder Dylan Patel on New AI Regulations, Future of Chinese AI & xAI’s Scrappy Surge to Hyperscale 1:24:15

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In this episode of Unsupervised Learning, we sit down with Dylan Patel, Chief Analyst at SemiAnalysis, to break down what these sweeping changes really mean. From how they consolidate power among Big Tech to China's narrowing options for AI dominance, we unpacked the impact of this regulatory shift. Follow SemiAnalysis: https://semianalysis.com/ [0…

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Ep 52: Marc Benioff Responds to Satya and Unpacks the Agentic Era 39:57

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In this cross-over episode with The Logan Bartltett Show, Marc Benioff (CEO, Salesforce) responds to Satya Nadella’s recent predictions and shares his thoughts on the current reality of Agi. He dives into the rise of digital labor, the multi-trillion-dollar potential of agentic technology, and what the future split between software and agentic reve…

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That's No Moon: Episode 54 - Domo Arigato Mr B1-O 1:44:32

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Hello there! Happy New Year to you all! We are back with Episode 54 and its the turn of the CIS for us to review. We are joined by arguably the UK's most prominant CIS player in Paul Buller who offers his expert opinions on all things robotic and waxes lyrical about his bestie Mr Grievous. In addition we offer some New Years Resolutions that are le…

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Ep 51: Former Chief Research Officer of OpenAI Bob McGrew - What Comes Next for AI? 1:07:32

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In our new world of AI, few minds shine as brightly as Bob McGrew's. Until November Bob was the Chief Research Officer at OpenAI, and before that led Palantir’s engineering and product management for the first decade of its existence. He’s seen it all and we were fortunate to get his insights and vision for the future in one of my favorite episodes…

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That's No Moon: Episode 53 - Its Chriiiiiiiissssstmaaaaaaaaaaaas 2:03:28

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Hello there! Its our Christmas show!!! We've got guests, a quiz, list analysis, jokes, banter and so much more in this show. Tune in also for winners of giveaways as well as some insights from our array of guests drawn from our loyal cohort of "Mooners" For information about events head to https://www.legionevents.app/ If you like what you hear and…

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Ep 50: Fireworks CEO Lin Qiao on Why There Won’t be a Single Model, Will Hyperscalers Win Inference & AI Use-cases with PMF 55:49

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Lin Qiao, the co-founder of Fireworks.ai, sits down for a deep dive into the future of AI. Lin ran the PyTorch team at Meta, which developed some of the most fundamental open-source AI software in use today. She’s got a riveting perspective on the AI landscape that is a must-listen. [0:00] Intro [1:06] Fireworks: Revolutionizing AI Inference [2:12]…

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Ep 49: OpenAI Researcher Noam Brown Unpacks the Full Release of o1 and the Path to AGI 47:12

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Noam Brown, renowned AI researcher and key figure at OpenAI, joins us for a deep dive into the o1 release. Recorded just one day before o1’s full public debut, this episode explores the groundbreaking advancements and challenges behind this innovative test-time compute model. We discuss the technical breakthroughs that set o1 apart, its unique capa…

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That's No Moon: Episode 52 - All Hail King James 1:38:10

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Hello there! It's the return of the list analysis and this episode is the Republic's turn. We welcome a doctor to the show to tell us how he won not one but TWO GT's this year. His most recent win with the returning hero of the Republic Obi Wan... KenOBIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!!!!! Andy and Cockles offer a couple lists as well for some analysis as well an…

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178: Working from Home 1:45:15

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Intro topic: Smart homes News/Links: SpaceX Starship Flight Test Five / Six https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIKI7y3DTXk ShareDB https://github.com/share/sharedb Orion AR Glasses https://about.fb.com/news/2024/09/introducing-orion-our-first-true-augmented-reality-glasses/ Blade and Sorcery 1.0 is out https://www.meta.com/experiences/blade-sorcery-no…

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That's No Moon: Episode 51 - Atomic Visitations 1:40:48

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Hello there! Welcome to episode 51. This week we welcome a certain Will Pagani of Atomic Mass Games on the show. Tune in for developer insights and takes on everyone's favourite game! We also talk about a recent GT and the phenom that is Lyla Claire and her winning not one but 2 GTs with different lists. Also in this is a discussion on the recent c…

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Ep 48: Co-Founder/CEO of LiveKit Russ d'Sa on the Best ChatGPT Voice Use-Cases, New UX Paradigms in AI, and When Voice Makes Sense 45:28

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For this episode of Unsupervised Learning we spoke with Russ d'Sa, co-founder of LiveKit, a company at the forefront of voice AI technology. Russ thinks of LiveKit as a “nervous system,” powering the sensory interfaces humans use to interact with AI – including the Advanced Voice feature in ChatGPT as well as applications like Character.ai, Spotify…

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Ep 47: Chief AI Scientist of Databricks Jonathan Frankle on Why New Model Architectures are Unlikely, When to Pre-Train or Fine Tune, and Hopes for Future AI Policy 1:04:25

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Jonathan Frankle is the Chief AI Scientist at Databricks ($43B), which he joined through the acquisition of MosaicML in July 2023. Databricks has over 12,000 customers on the cutting edge of AI; Jonathan works to anticipate their needs and offer solutions even as the tech is rapidly evolving. [0:00] Intro [0:52] Incentives and Team Motivation at Da…

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That's No Moon: Episode 50 - 50 not out! 1:57:49

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Hello there! Whod have thought we'd get to 50 episodes and still be going strong. We continue our list review episodes and revisit the Rebels with 3 different lists for you to check out as well as hear Andys spin on them to make them "better". On top of this we reminisce on some favorite moments of the previous shows along with our usual witty bant…

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177: Vector Databases 1:28:26

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Intro topic: Buying a Car News/Links: Cognitive Load is what Matters https://github.com/zakirullin/cognitive-load Diffusion models are Real-Time Game Engines https://gamengen.github.io/ Your Company Needs Junior Devs https://softwaredoug.com/blog/2024/09/07/your-team-needs-juniors Seamless Streaming / Fish Speech / LLaMA Omni Seamless: https://hugg…

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Ep 46: CEO of DeepL Jarek Kutylowski on Specialized vs. General Models, Beating Google and a Future with Synchronous Translation 56:10

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I sat down with DeepL cofounder Jarek Kutylowski. DeepL is a comprehensive Language AI platform that enables organizations to communicate effectively across languages, cultures, and markets. Jarek shared a treasure trove of insights on the past, present, and future of AI translation. Here were some standout moments: [0:00] Intro [0:38] The Rise of …

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That's No Moon: Episode 49 - Imperial salt mines under new management 2:03:48

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Hello there! We bring you an Empire faction discussion post 2.6. We each bring you an empire list and critique it and hopefully give you some food for thought about what synergises works well and what to avoid. (Fear apparently) Check out our social media pages to see the lists made in detail so that you can get an idea of what was made. If you lik…

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Ep 45: Founder & CEO of HeyGen Josh Xu on TikTok’s GenAI Dilemma, Trust and Safety and the Path to Interactive Avatars 51:46

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Joshua Xu is co-founder and CEO of HeyGen -- the fast-growing AI video creation and translation platform. You can upload a video, or create a new one from a script using an AI avatar as your star, and HeyGen will translate it into 175 languages. HeyGen now serves over 40,000 customers and is generating $35+ million in revenue. [0:00] Intro [0:37] H…