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Practical AI: Machine Learning, Data Science, LLM
Changelog Media
Making artificial intelligence practical, productive & accessible to everyone. Practical AI is a show in which technology professionals, business people, students, enthusiasts, and expert guests engage in lively discussions about Artificial Intelligence and related topics (Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Neural Networks, GANs, MLOps, AIOps, LLMs & more). The focus is on productive implementations and real-world scenarios that are accessible to everyone. If you want to keep up with the latest advances in AI, while keeping one foot in the real world, then this is the show for you!
- 53 minutes 54 secondsMozart to Megadeath at CHRP
Daniel and Chris groove with Jeff Smith, Founder and CEO at CHRP.ai. Jeff describes how CHRP anonymously analyzes emotional wellness data, derived from employees’ music preferences, giving HR leaders actionable insights to improve productivity, retention, and overall morale. By monitoring key trends and identifying shifts in emotional health across teams, CHRP.ai enables proactive decisions to ensure employees feel supported and engaged.
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Featuring:
- Jeff Smith – Twitter, LinkedIn
- Chris Benson – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
- Daniel Whitenack – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Show Notes:
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
19 December 2024, 4:30 pm - 51 minutes 39 secondsSidekick is an AI Shopify expert
Today, Chris explores Shopify Magic and other AI offerings with Mike Tamir, Distinguished ML Engineer and Head of Machine Learning, and Matt Colyer, Director of Product Management for Sidekick. They talk about how Shopify uses generative AI and LLMs to enhance their products, and they take a deeper dive into Sidekick, a first-of-its-kind, AI-enabled commerce assistant that understands a merchant’s business (products, orders, customers) and has been trained to know all about Shopify.
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Featuring:
- Mike Tamir – LinkedIn
- Matt Colyer – Twitter, LinkedIn
- Chris Benson – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Show Notes:
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11 December 2024, 10:15 pm - 50 minutes 5 secondsFull-duplex, real-time dialogue with Kyutai
Kyutai, an open science research lab, made headlines over the summer when they released their real-time speech-to-speech AI assistant (beating OpenAI to market with their teased GPT-driven speech-to-speech functionality). Alex from Kyutai joins us in this episode to discuss the research lab, their recent Moshi models, and what might be coming next from the lab. Along the way we discuss small models and the AI ecosystem in France.
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Featuring:
- Alexandre Défossez – Twitter, GitHub, Website
- Chris Benson – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
- Daniel Whitenack – Twitter, GitHub, Website
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Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
4 December 2024, 4:00 pm - 53 minutes 12 secondsClones, commerce & campaigns
Chris and Daniel dive into what Trump’s impending second term could mean for AI companies, model developers, and regulators, unpacking the potential shifts in policy and innovation. Next, they discuss the latest models, like Qwen, that blur the performance gap between open and closed systems. Finally, they explore new AI tools for meeting clones and AI-driven commerce, sparking a conversation about the balance between digital convenience and fostering genuine human connections.
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Show Notes:
- New Models
- What Donald Trump’s Win Means for AI
- GetPickle.ai
- Docling
- AI and Commerce
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
29 November 2024, 5:30 pm - 52 minutes 4 secondsscikit-learn & data science you own
We are at GenAI saturation, so let’s talk about scikit-learn, a long time favorite for data scientists building classifiers, time series analyzers, dimensionality reducers, and more! Scikit-learn is deployed across industry and driving a significant portion of the “AI” that is actually in production. :probabl is a new kind of company that is stewarding this project along with a variety of other open source projects. Yann Lechelle and Guillaume Lemaitre share some of the vision behind the company and talk about the future of scikit-learn!
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Featuring:
- Yann Lechelle – LinkedIn
- Guillaume Lemaitre – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
- Chris Benson – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
- Daniel Whitenack – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Show Notes:
- :probabl.
- TechCrunch: Probabl is a new AI company built around popular library scikit-learn
- scikit-learn
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
19 November 2024, 9:00 pm - 50 minutes 9 secondsCreating tested, reliable AI applications
It can be frustrating to get an AI application working amazingly well 80% of the time and failing miserably the other 20%. How can you close the gap and create something that you rely on? Chris and Daniel talk through this process, behavior testing, and the flow from prototype to production in this episode. They also talk a bit about the apparent slow down in the release of frontier models.
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13 November 2024, 7:30 pm - 55 minutes 25 secondsAI is changing the cybersecurity threat landscape
This week, Chris is joined by Gregory Richardson, Vice President and Global Advisory CISO at BlackBerry, and Ismael Valenzuela, Vice President of Threat Research & Intelligence at BlackBerry. They address how AI is changing the threat landscape, why human defenders remain a key part of our cyber defenses, and the explain the AI standoff between cyber threat actors and cyber defenders.
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Featuring:
- Gregory Richardson – LinkedIn
- Ismael Valenzuela – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
- Chris Benson – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Show Notes:
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5 November 2024, 7:40 pm - 51 minutes 46 secondsThe path towards trustworthy AI
Elham Tabassi, the Chief AI Advisor at the U.S. National Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST), joins Chris for an enlightening discussion about the path towards trustworthy AI. Together they explore NIST’s ‘AI Risk Management Framework’ (AI RMF) within the context of the White House’s ‘Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence’.
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- Elham Tabassi | NIST
- Elham Tabassi | TIME 100 / AI
- NIST Trustworthy & Responsible AI Resource Center
- NIST AI Risk Management Framework (AI RMF)
- NIST Artificial Intelligence Risk Management Framework (AI RMF 1.0) (PDF)
- NIST AI RMF Playbook
- NIST AI RMF Development
- NIST AI Risk Management Framework - Engage
- NIST Risk Management Framework Aims to Improve Trustworthiness of Artificial Intelligence
- White House Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence
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29 October 2024, 7:00 pm - 50 minutes 21 secondsBig data is dead, analytics is alive
We are on the other side of “big data” hype, but what is the future of analytics and how does AI fit in? Till and Adithya from MotherDuck join us to discuss why DuckDB is taking the analytics and AI world by storm. We dive into what makes DuckDB, a free, in-process SQL OLAP database management system, unique including its ability to execute lighting fast analytics queries against a variety of data sources, even on your laptop! Along the way we dig into the intersections with AI, such as text-to-sql, vector search, and AI-driven SQL query correction.
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Featuring:
- Till Döhmen – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
- Adithya Krishnan – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
- Chris Benson – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
- Daniel Whitenack – Twitter, GitHub, Website
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24 October 2024, 3:30 pm - 58 minutes 26 secondsPractical workflow orchestration
Workflow orchestration has always been a pain for data scientists, but this is exacerbated in these AI hype days by agentic workflows executing arbitrary (not pre-defined) workflows with a variety of failure modes. Adam from Prefect joins us to talk through their open source Python library for orchestration and visibility into python-based pipelines. Along the way, he introduces us to things like Marvin, their AI engineering framework, and ControlFlow, their agent workflow system.
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- Shopify – Sign up for a $1/month trial period at shopify.com/practicalai
- Notion – Notion is a place where any team can write, plan, organize, and rediscover the joy of play. It’s a workspace designed not just for making progress, but getting inspired. Notion is for everyone — whether you’re a Fortune 500 company or freelance designer, starting a new startup or a student juggling classes and clubs.
Featuring:
- Adam Azzam – Twitter, LinkedIn
- Chris Benson – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
- Daniel Whitenack – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Show Notes:
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15 October 2024, 8:00 pm - 57 minutes 4 secondsTowards high-quality (maybe synthetic) datasets
As Argilla puts it: “Data quality is what makes or breaks AI.” However, what exactly does this mean and how can AI team probably collaborate with domain experts towards improved data quality? David Berenstein & Ben Burtenshaw, who are building Argilla & Distilabel at Hugging Face, join us to dig into these topics along with synthetic data generation & AI-generated labeling / feedback.
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Featuring:
- Ben Burtenshaw – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
- David Berenstein – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
- Chris Benson – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
- Daniel Whitenack – Twitter, GitHub, Website
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