Around the Prompt

Dec 01 2024 10 ep. 51 mins 11
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'Around the Prompt' goes deep, peeling back the layers of AI innovation to reveal the hidden gems, the untapped potential, based on conversations with leading experts. Whether you're a seasoned AI enthusiast or just dipping your toes into the world of artificial intelligence, we will be your compass for navigating the ever-changing landscape. Discover how AI is transforming industries, enhancing our daily lives, and shaping the world of tomorrow. Our conversations transcend mere trends and buzzwords, giving you the practical insights you need to harness the power of AI effectively.

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Simon Willison: The Future of Open Source and AI

Dec 01 2024 54 mins  
In this conversation, Simon Willison discusses the intersection of AI, Open Source, and journalism, emphasizing the importance of tools like Dataset in enhancing data journalism. He reflects on his journey from developing Django to his current work with AI, highlighting the role of open source in software development. Willison shares insights on how AI can augment human capabilitie

Shreya Rajpal: Guardrails AI, AI Production Challenges, & AI Reliability

Sep 30 2024 50 mins  
Join Logan Kilpatrick and Nolan Fortman for a discussion with Shreya Rajpal that covers the inception and evolution of Guardrails, a tool designed to enhance reliability in AI applications. She emphasizes the importance of AI validation, the challenges of moving from proof of concept to production, and the organizational buy-in required for implementing such tools. The discussion a

Quinn Slack: Sourcegraph, AI Coding, and Cody

Aug 19 2024 54 mins  
Join Logan and Nolan in a deep dive into the world of AI coding with Quinn Slack, the CEO of Sourcegraph. Sourcegraph was founded in 2013 with the goal of solving the problem of code search. The founders, who had experience working with massive code bases, wanted to create a code search tool similar to Google for code. They started by building code search as their first product and

Andrew Mayne: Prompt Engineering, Joining OpenAI, & Shark AI

Jun 19 2024 68 mins  
Andrew Mayne shares his non-traditional journey into AI, from being a magician and illusionist to becoming a science communicator at OpenAI. He discusses his early experiences with AI as a child, his interest in robotics and AI, and his fascination with chatbots. Andrew also talks about his experience using AI to deceive great white sharks and how it led him to explore the capabili

Marily Nika: AI Product Management, Building AI Products, & MetaAI

Jun 15 2024 45 mins  
In this episode, Logan and Nolan dive deep into building AI product's with Marily Nika, a lead product manager at Google. We explore how AI on its own is not a product. AI product managers act as a bridge between AI and user needs. The role of AI product managers is to solve the right problems for users by leveraging AI capabilities. The demand for AI product managers is increasing

Ben Tossell: AI Automation, Ben's Bites, Makerpad, & Low / No code AI

Jun 02 2024 46 mins  
In this conversation, Ben discusses the intersection of low/no code tools and AI. He shares his experience in the low/no code space and how it relates to the current trends in large language models (LLMs) and AI. Ben highlights the democratization of software development and the ability for non-technical founders to build functional products using low/no code tools. He also explore

Conor Grennan: AI Mindset, NYU GenAI, & Practical AI

May 24 2024 53 mins  
Join Logan Kilpatrick and Nolan Fortman as we dive deep into how having an AI-first mindset is one of the key enablers for the broad adoption of AI. Conor has trained hundreds of thousands of people to use AI and currently serves as the head of generative AI at NYU Stern. Takeaways - Stay out of the AI bubble and understand how people outside of the tech industry think. - Simplify

Jerry Li: AI Community Superintelligence, Gradual & AI Communities

May 21 2024 50 mins  
Jerry is the CEO of Gradual, a community platform, and is seeing the front line of how AI is effecting both online and in-person communities. We are in uncharted waters and in this conversation, we explore how AI might impact these communities, why AI could lead to more sustainable online spaces of gathering, and much more. Summary Gradual was born out of the ELC community, a commu

Yohei Nakajima: BabyAGI, AI Agents, & AI Investing

May 11 2024 49 mins  
Join Logan Kilpatrick and Nolan Fortman as we dive deep into the future of AI Agents, how they will affect businesses, developers, and the world. Yohei is one of the deepest thinkers in the world of AI agents, as the creator of Baby AGI and the backer of many companies in the agent space. I hope you all enjoy this conversation as much as Nolan and I did. Takeaways - Building AI too

Jeremy Howard: AnswerAI, FastAI, Fine-tuning & AI recruiting | Around the Prompt #1

Mar 27 2024 41 mins  
Join Logan Kilpatrick and Nolan Fortman as we dive into a conversation with Jeremy Howard on: - Why Jeremy created a new startup AswerAI - Why fine-tuning is still underrated - How attracting the world's best AI talent requires global and remote hiring - What the future for FastAI will look like - Building AI community And so much more. This was an immensely inspiring and thoughtfu