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GenAI risks and global adoption
27 augustus 2025 · 43 min
Daniel and Chris sit with Citadel AI’s Rick Kobayashi and Kenny Song and unpack AI safety and security challenges in the generative AI era. They compare Japan’s approach to AI adoption with the US’s, and explore the implications of real-world failures in AI systems, along with strategies for AI monitoring and evaluation. Lees meer
Featuring:
Rick Kobayashi – LinkedIn
Kenny Song – LinkedIn
Chris Benson – Website, LinkedIn, Bluesky, GitHub, X
Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
Links:
Citadel AI
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Inside America’s AI Action Plan
19 augustus 2025 · 44 min
Dan and Chris break down Winning the Race: America's AI Action Plan, issued by the White House in July 2025. Structured as three "pillars" — Accelerate AI Innovation, Build American AI Infrastructure, and Lead in International AI Diplomacy and Security — our dynamic duo unpack the plan's policy goals and its associated suggestions — while also exploring the mixed reactions it’s sparked across political lines. They connect the plan to international AI diplomacy and national security interests, discuss its implications for practitioners, and consider how political realities could shape its success in the years ahead. Lees meer
Featuring:
Chris Benson – Website, LinkedIn, Bluesky, GitHub, X
Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
Links:
Press Release: White House Unveils America's AI Action Plan
Paper: America's AI Action Plan
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Confident, strategic AI leadership
12 augustus 2025 · 48 min
Allegra Guinan of Lumiera helps leaders turn uncertainty about AI into confident, strategic leadership. In this conversation, she brings some actionable insights for navigating the hype and complexity of AI. The discussion covers challenges with implementing responsible AI practices, the growing importance of user experience and product thinking, and how leaders can focus on real-world business problems over abstract experimentation. Lees meer
Featuring:
Allegra Guinan – LinkedIn
Chris Benson – Website, LinkedIn, Bluesky, GitHub, X
Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
Links:
Lumiera
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Educating a data-literate generation
8 augustus 2025 · 45 min
Dan sits down with guests Mark Daniel Ward and Katie Sanders from The Data Mine at Purdue University to explore how higher education is evolving to meet the demands of the AI-driven workforce. They share how their program blends interdisciplinary learning, corporate partnerships, and real-world data science projects to better prepare students across 160+ majors. From AI chatbots to agricultural forecasting, they discuss the power of living-learning communities, how the data mine model is spreading to other institutions and what it reveals about the future of education, workforce development, and applied AI training. Lees meer
Featuring:
Mark Daniel Ward – LinkedIn
Katie Sanders – LinkedIn
Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
Links:
The Data Mine
Sponsors:
Shopify – The commerce platform trusted by millions. From idea to checkout, Shopify gives you everything you need to launch and scale your business—no matter your level of experience. Build beautiful storefronts, market with built-in AI tools, and tap into the platform powering 10% of all U.S. eCommerce. Start your one-dollar trial at shopify.com/practicalai
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Workforce dynamics in an AI-assisted world
1 augustus 2025 · 44 min
We unpack how AI is reshaping hiring decisions, shifting job roles, and creating new expectations for professionals — from engineers to marketers. They explore the rise of AI-assisted teams, the growing compensation bubble, why continuous learning is now table stakes, and how some service providers are quietly riding the AI wave. Lees meer
Featuring:
Chris Benson – Website, LinkedIn, Bluesky, GitHub, X
Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
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Reimagining actuarial science with AI
25 juli 2025 · 41 min
In this episode, Chris sits down with Igor Nikitin, CEO and co-founder of Nice Technologies, to explore how AI and modern engineering practices are transforming the actuarial field and setting the stage for the future of actuarial modeling. We discuss the introduction of programming into insurance pricing workflows, and how their Python-based calc engine, AI copilots, and DevOps-inspired workflows are enabling actuaries to collaborate more effectively across teams while accelerating innovation. Lees meer
Featuring:
Igor Nikitin – LinkedIn
Chris Benson – Website, LinkedIn, Bluesky, GitHub, X
Links:
Nice Technologies
Sponsors:
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Agentic AI for Drone & Robotic Swarming
15 juli 2025 · 46 min
In this episode of Practical AI, Chris and Daniel explore the fascinating world of agentic AI for drone and robotic swarms, which is Chris's passion and professional focus. They unpack how autonomous vehicles (UxV), drones (UaV), and other autonomous multi-agent systems can collaborate without centralized control while exhibiting complex emergent behavior with agency and self-governance to accomplish a mission or shared goals. Chris and Dan delve into the role of AI real-time inference and edge computing to enable complex agentic multi-model autonomy, especially in challenging environments like disaster zones and remote industrial operations. Lees meer
Featuring:
Chris Benson – Website, LinkedIn, Bluesky, GitHub, X
Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
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ROS - Robotic Operating System
Gazebo
Hugging Face Agents Course
Swarm Robotics | Wikipedia
Chris's definition of Swarming:
Swarming occurs when numerous independent fully-autonomous multi-agentic platforms exhibit highly-coordinated locomotive and emergent behaviors with agency and self-governance in any domain (air, ground, sea, undersea, space), functioning as a single independent logical distributed decentralized decisioning entity for purposes of C3 (command, control, communications) with human operators on-the-loop, to implement actions that achieve strategic, tactical, or operational effects in the furtherance of a mission.
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Outshift by Cisco: AGNTCY is an open source collective building the Internet of Agents. It's a collaboration layer where AI agents can communicate, discover each other, and work across frameworks. For developers, this means standardized agent discovery tools, seamless protocols for inter-agent communication, and modular components to compose and scale multi-agent workflows.
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AI in the shadows: From hallucinations to blackmail
7 juli 2025 · 45 min
In the first episode of an "AI in the shadows" theme, Chris and Daniel explore the increasing concerning world of agentic misalignment. Starting out with a reminder about hallucinations and reasoning models, they break down how today’s models only mimic reasoning, which can lead to serious ethical considerations. They unpack a fascinating (and slightly terrifying) new study from Anthropic, where agentic AI models were caught simulating blackmail, deception, and even sabotage — all in the name of goal completion and self-preservation. Lees meer
Featuring:
Chris Benson – Website, LinkedIn, Bluesky, GitHub, X
Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
Links:
Agentic Misalignment: How LLMs could be insider threats
Hugging Face Agents Course
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Finding Nemotron
2 juli 2025 · 46 min
In this episode, we sit down with Joey Conway to explore NVIDIA's open source AI, from the reasoning-focused Nemotron models built on top of Llama, to the blazing-fast Parakeet speech model. We chat about what makes open foundation models so valuable, how enterprises can think about deploying multi-model strategies, and why reasoning is becoming the key differentiator in real-world AI applications. Lees meer
Featuring:
Joey Conway – LinkedIn
Chris Benson – Website, LinkedIn, Bluesky, GitHub, X
Links:
Llama Nemotron Ultra
NVIDIA Llama Nemotron Ultra Open Model Delivers Groundbreaking Reasoning Accuracy
Independent analysis of AI
Parakeet Model
Parakeet Leaderboard
Try the Llama-3.1-Nemotron-Ultra-253B-v1 model here and here
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AI hot takes and debates: Autonomy
27 juni 2025 · 46 min
Can AI-driven autonomy reduce harm, or does it risk dehumanizing decision-making? In this “AI Hot Takes & Debates” series episode, Daniel and Chris dive deep into the ethical crossroads of AI, autonomy, and military applications. They trade perspectives on ethics, precision, responsibility, and whether machines should ever be trusted with life-or-death decisions. It’s a spirited back-and-forth that tackles the big questions behind real-world AI. Lees meer
Featuring:
Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
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The Concept of "The Human" in the Critique of Autonomous Weapons
On the Pitfalls of Technophilic Reason: A Commentary on Kevin Jon Heller’s “The Concept of ‘the Human’ in the Critique of Autonomous Weapons”
Sponsors:
Outshift by Cisco: AGNTCY is an open source collective building the Internet of Agents. It's a collaboration layer where AI agents can communicate, discover each other, and work across frameworks. For developers, this means standardized agent discovery tools, seamless protocols for inter-agent communication, and modular components to compose and scale multi-agent workflows.
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Behind-the-Scenes: VC Funding for AI Startups
18 juni 2025 · 42 min
It seems like we are bombarded by news about millions of dollars pouring into AI startups, which have crazy valuations. In this episode, Chris and Dan dive deep into the highs, lows, and hard choices behind funding an AI startup. They explore early bootstrapping, the transition to venture capital, and what it’s like to trade in code commits for investor decks. Lees meer
Featuring:
Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
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Builder.ai Collapses: $1.5bn 'AI' Startup Exposed as 'Actually Indians' Pretending to Be Bots
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AI-Automated Film Making
12 juni 2025 · 43 min
An recent article in Variety was titled: "Sylvester Stallone-Backed Largo.ai Teams With Brilliant Pictures for ‘World’s First Fully AI-Automated Film Company’". Obviously this caught our attention! We sit down with Sami Arpa, CEO of Largo.ai, to unpack how films are developed, funded, and brought to life using AI. We discover how tools like script analysis, financial forecasting, and digital twins are helping creators and studios make smarter decisions. Lees meer
Featuring:
Sami Arpa – LinkedIn
Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
Links:
Largo AI
Sylvester Stallone-Backed Largo.ai Teams With Brilliant Pictures for ‘World’s First Fully AI-Automated Film Company’
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Outshift by Cisco: AGNTCY is an open source collective building the Internet of Agents. It's a collaboration layer where AI agents can communicate, discover each other, and work across frameworks. For developers, this means standardized agent discovery tools, seamless protocols for inter-agent communication, and modular components to compose and scale multi-agent workflows.
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Federated learning in production (part 2)
4 juni 2025 · 45 min
Chong Shen from Flower Labs joins us to discuss what it really takes to build production-ready federated learning systems that work across data silos. We talk about the Flower framework and it's architecture (supernodes, superlinks, etc.), and what makes it both "friendly" and ready for real enterprise environments. We also explore how the generative Generative AI boom is reshaping Flower’s roadmap. Lees meer
Featuring:
Chong Shen Ng – LinkedIn
Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
Episode links:
The future of AI training is federated
DeepLearning.ai short course on Federated Learning with Flower
Flower Monthly
Federated Learning in Automotive
Federated AI in Finance
Federated Learning in Healthcare
Federated AI on IoT Systems
FlowerTune LLM Leaderboard
Flower Intelligence
GitHub
Slack
Flower Discuss
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Federated learning in production (part 1)
30 mei 2025 · 45 min
In this first of a two part series of episodes on federated learning, we dive into the evolving world of federated learning and distributed AI frameworks with Patrick Foley from Intel. We explore how frameworks like OpenFL and Flower are enabling secure, collaborative model training across silos, especially in sensitive fields like healthcare. The conversation touches on real-world use cases, the challenges of distributed ML/AI experiments, and why privacy-preserving techniques may become essential for deploying AI to production. Lees meer
Featuring:
Patrick Foley – LinkedIn
Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
Links:
Intel
OpenFL
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Emailing like a superhuman
20 mei 2025 · 47 min
Loïc Houssier, Head of Engineering at Superhuman, joins us to discuss how AI and LLMs are reshaping the email experience. He highlights challenges related to the variability of user prompts and infrastructure optimization. Loïc emphasizes that a deep focus on user experience and real human workflows is key to building AI tools people actually love to use. Lees meer
Featuring:
Loïc Houssier – LinkedIn
Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
Links:
Superhuman
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Model Context Protocol Deep Dive
8 mei 2025 · 42 min
In this episode, Daniel and Chris unpack the Model Context Protocol (MCP), a rising standard for enabling agentic AI interactions with external systems, APIs, and data sources. They explore how MCP supports interoperability, community contributions, and a rapidly developing ecosystem of AI integrations. The conversation also highlights some real-world tooling such as FastAPI-MCP. Lees meer
Featuring:
Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
Links:
Protocol website
Anthropic blog post
Blog post - Model Context Protocol (MCP) an overview
FastAPI-MCP
How to Use FastAPI MCP Server: A Complete Guide
Candle (Rust framework)
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Seeing beyond the scan in neuroimaging
30 april 2025 · 43 min
In this episode, we explore the intersection of AI, machine learning, and healthcare through the lens of neuroimaging and epilepsy diagnosis. Dr. Gavin Winston shares insights from his work using MRI data and machine learning to uncover subtle abnormalities in brain function. We discuss the cultural and ethical barriers to AI adoption in medicine, how predictive data analysis could transform the diagnostic workflow, and what the future holds for medical imaging in a world increasingly shaped by intelligent systems. Lees meer
Featuring:
Gavin Winston – LinkedIn, Website
Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
Links:
Detection of Epileptogenic Focal Cortical Dysplasia Using Graph Neural Networks: A MELD Study
Machine Learning in Neuroimaging across Disciplines
Automated and Interpretable Detection of Hippocampal Sclerosis in Temporal Lobe Epilepsy: AID-HS
Literature review and protocol for a prospective multicentre cohort study on multimodal prediction of seizure recurrence after unprovoked first seizure
Deep learning in neuroimaging of epilepsy
Non-parametric combination of multimodal MRI for lesion detection in focal epilepsy
Detection of covert lesions in focal epilepsy using computational analysis of multimodal magnetic resonance imaging data
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Open source AI to tackle your backlog
18 april 2025 · 42 min
Vibe coding, agentic workflows, and AI-assisted pull requests? In this episode, Daniel and Chris chat with Robert Brennan and Graham Neubig of All Hands AI about how AI is transforming software development—from senior engineer productivity to open source agents that address GitHub issues. They dive into trust, tooling, collaboration, and what it means to build software in the era of AI agents. Whether you're coding from your laptop or your phone on a morning walk, the future is hands-free (and All Hands). Lees meer
Featuring:
Robert Brennan – LinkedIn, X
Graham Neubig – LinkedIn, X
Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
Links:
All Hands
All Hands on GitHub
All Hands on Hugging Face
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Orchestrating agents, APIs, and MCP servers
14 april 2025 · 43 min
In this episode, Daniel sits down with Pavel Veller, EPAM’s Chief Technologist, to explore the practical challenges of orchestrating many AI agents and managing connections to disparate systems/tools. Pavel shares insights from his hands-on work with agentic architectures and internal tools like "DIAL". Pavel also helps us understand things like MCP servers and why connecting assistants via APIs is easy—but making them useful is hard. Lees meer
Featuring:
Pavel Veller – LinkedIn, X
Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
Links:
EPAM
DIAL
SWE-bench results
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Software and hardware acceleration with Groq
2 april 2025 · 43 min
How do you enable AI acceleration (at both the hardware and software layers) that stays ahead of rapid industry shifts? In this episode, Dhananjay Singh from Groq dives into the evolving landscape of AI inference and acceleration. We explore how Groq optimizes the serving layer, adapts to industry shifts, and supports emerging model architectures. Lees meer
Featuring:
Dhananjay Singh – LinkedIn, X
Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
Links:
Groq
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AI-assisted coding with GitHub's COO
21 maart 2025 · 50 min
Kyle Daigle, COO of GitHub, joins the hosts to discuss the evolving role of AI in software development, GitHub Copilot’s impact, and the challenges of AI-assisted coding. The conversation covers licensing concerns, ethical considerations, and how developers can navigate these complexities. Kyle also shares his vision for ambient AI, which seamlessly integrates into workflows to enhance productivity and innovation, shaping the future of developer tools. Lees meer
Featuring:
Kyle Daigle – LinkedIn
Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
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Optimizing for efficiency with IBM’s Granite
14 maart 2025 · 44 min
We often judge AI models by leaderboard scores, but what if efficiency matters more? Kate Soule from IBM joins us to discuss how Granite AI is rethinking AI at the edge—breaking tasks into smaller, efficient components and co-designing models with hardware. She also shares why AI should prioritize efficiency frontiers over incremental benchmark gains and how seamless model routing can optimize performance. Lees meer
Featuring:
Kate Soule – LinkedIn
Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
Links:
IBM Granite
IBM Granite on Hugging Face
IBM Expands Granite Model Family with New Multi-Modal and Reasoning AI Built for the Enterprise
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Build a workspace of AI agents
8 maart 2025 · 48 min
How can every single person build a personal AI protégé and then accumulate (and share) a host of other assistants? In this episode, we dive into the world of no-code AI with Scott Meyer from Chipp.ai. We discuss AI tooling for people that can't code, the cultural shift that needs to happen for widespread AI adoption in businesses, and the predicted growth trajectory of AI assistant that you can own. Lees meer
Featuring:
Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
Scott Meyer - LinkedIn, X
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Show Notes:
Chipp.ai
Chipp.ai's Discord
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GenAI hot takes and bad use cases
24 februari 2025 · 31 min
It seems like all we hear about are the great use cases for GenAI, but where should you NOT be using the technology? On this episode Chris and Daniel share their hot takes and bad use cases. Some may surprise you! Lees meer
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Tool calling and agents
14 februari 2025 · 45 min
It seems like everyone is uses the term “agent” differently these days. In this episode, Chris and Daniel dig into the details of tool calling and its connection to agents. They help clarify how LLMs can “talk to” and “interact with” other systems like databases, APIs, web apps, etc. Along the way they share related learning resources. Lees meer
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Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
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smolagents
Hugging Face agents course
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Deep-dive into DeepSeek
31 januari 2025 · 51 min
There is crazy hype and a lot of confusion related to DeepSeek’s latest model DeepSeek R1. The products provided by DeepSeek (their version of a ChatGPT-like app) has exploded in popularity. However, ties to China have raised privacy and geopolitical concerns. In this episode, Chris and Daniel cut through the hype to talk about the model, privacy implications, running DeepSeek models securely, and what this signals for open models in 2025. Lees meer
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Featuring:
Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
Daniel’s blog post on DeepSeek
DeepSeek R1 on Hugging Face
DeepSeek
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Video generation with realistic motion
23 januari 2025 · 45 min
We seem to be experiencing a surge of video generation tools, models, and applications. However, video generation models generally struggle with some basic physics, like realistic walking motion. This leaves some generated videos lacking true motion with disappointing, simplistic panning camera views. Genmo is focused on the motion side of video generation and has released some of the best open models. Paras joins us to discuss video generation and their journey at Genmo. Lees meer
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Featuring:
Paras Jain – LinkedIn, X
Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
Genmo
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Mozart to Megadeth at CHRP
19 december 2024 · 54 min
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. Lees meer
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Featuring:
Jeff Smith – LinkedIn, X
Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
CHRP | Website
MyCHRP
CHRP | Instagram
CHRP | LinkedIn
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Sidekick is an AI Shopify expert
11 december 2024 · 52 min
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. Lees meer
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Featuring:
Mike Tamir – LinkedIn
Matt Colyer – LinkedIn, X
Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Show Notes:
Shopify
Shopify’s Winter Edition ’25
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Full-duplex, real-time dialogue with Kyutai
4 december 2024 · 50 min
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. Lees meer
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Featuring:
Alexandre Défossez – Website, GitHub, X
Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
Kyutai
Kyutai on GitHub
Kyutai on Hugging Face
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Clones, commerce & campaigns
29 november 2024 · 53 min
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. Lees meer
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Featuring:
Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
New Models
Qwen2.5
Alibaba’s Qwen AI Model
Qwen2.5 Turbo Reads Ten Novels in One Minute
DeepSeek
DeepSeek API Docs Update
FLUX
Black Forest Labs’ FLUX.1-dev on Hugging Face
OuteTTS
OuteTTS 0.1 - 350M Blog
OuteTTS 0.2 - 500M Blog
Smol TTS Update on LinkedIn
SmolLVM
SmolLVM Updates on LinkedIn
What Donald Trump’s Win Means for AI
Practical AI Podcast: Episode 244
GetPickle.ai
Docling
Docling Paper on arXiv
Docling GitHub Repository
Red Hat Blog on Docling
LinkedIn Post on PDF Table Extraction
Hugging Face Blog on Observers…
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scikit-learn & data science you own
19 november 2024 · 52 min
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! Lees meer
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Featuring:
Yann Lechelle – LinkedIn
Guillaume Lemaitre – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
:probabl.
TechCrunch: Probabl is a new AI company built around popular library scikit-learn
scikit-learn
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Creating tested, reliable AI applications
13 november 2024 · 50 min
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. Lees meer
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MLOps Community “Agents in Production” event
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AI is changing the cybersecurity threat landscape
5 november 2024 · 55 min
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. Lees meer
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Featuring:
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Ismael Valenzuela – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Show Notes:
The AI Standoff: Attackers vs. Defenders | Blackberry Blog
Blackberry
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The path towards trustworthy AI
29 oktober 2024 · 52 min
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’. Lees meer
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Featuring:
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Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Show Notes:
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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Big data is dead, analytics is alive
24 oktober 2024 · 50 min
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. Lees meer
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Timescale – Real-time analytics on Postgres, seriously fast. Over 3 million Timescale databases power loT, sensors, Al, dev tools, crypto, and finance apps — all on Postgres. Postgres, for everything.
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:
Till Döhmen – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Adithya Krishnan – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
DuckDB
MotherDuck
Introducing FixIt: an unreasonably effective AI error fixer for SQL
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Practical workflow orchestration
15 oktober 2024 · 58 min
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. Lees meer
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Featuring:
Adam Azzam – LinkedIn, X
Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
Prefect
Marvin
ControlFlow
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Towards high-quality (maybe synthetic) datasets
9 oktober 2024 · 57 min
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. Lees meer
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Featuring:
Ben Burtenshaw – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
David Berenstein – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
Argilla
Distilabel
Synthetic Data Generator UI
Hugging Face and Argilla meetups
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Understanding what's possible, doable & scalable
3 oktober 2024 · 1 uur 2 min
We are constantly hearing about disillusionment as it relates to AI. Some of that is probably valid, but Mike Lewis, an AI architect from Cincinnati, has proven that he can consistently get LLM and GenAI apps to the point of real enterprise value (even with the Big Cos of the world). In this episode, Mike joins us to share some stories from the AI trenches & highlight what it takes (practically) to show what is possible, doable & scalable with AI. Lees meer
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Featuring:
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Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
Synthoni
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GraphRAG (beyond the hype)
25 september 2024 · 55 min
Seems like we are hearing a lot about GraphRAG these days, but there are lots of questions: what is it, is it hype, what is practical? One of our all time favorite podcast friends, Prashanth Rao, joins us to dig into this topic beyond the hype. Prashanth gives us a bit of background and practical use cases for GraphRAG and graph data. Lees meer
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Featuring:
Prashanth Rao – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
Kùzu: A highly scalable, extremely fast, easy-to-use embeddable, open source graph database: GitHub repo
The goals and vision of Kùzu: Blog post
Kùzu YouTube channel
Graph RAG strategies with Kùzu: GitHub repo
Prashanth Rao’s blog: thedataquarry.com
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Pausing to think about scikit-learn & OpenAI o1
17 september 2024 · 50 min
Recently the company stewarding the open source library scikit-learn announced their seed funding. Also, OpenAI released “o1” with new behavior in which it pauses to “think” about complex tasks. Chris and Daniel take some time to do their own thinking about o1 and the contrast to the scikit-learn ecosystem, which has the goal to promote “data science that you own.” Lees meer
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Fly.io – The home of Changelog.com — Deploy your apps close to your users — global Anycast load-balancing, zero-configuration private networking, hardware isolation, and instant WireGuard VPN connections. Push-button deployments that scale to thousands of instances. Check out the speedrun to get started in minutes.
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Featuring:
Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
Probabl seed funding announcement
OpenAI o1 announcement
Purdue Data4Good competition
MLOps Community homepage and Slack workspace
Latent Space homepage and Discord server
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Cybersecurity in the GenAI age
11 september 2024 · 52 min
Dinis Cruz drops by to chat about cybersecurity for generative AI and large language models. In addition to discussing The Cyber Boardroom, Dinis also delves into cybersecurity efforts at OWASP and that organization’s Top 10 for LLMs and Generative AI Apps. Lees meer
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Featuring:
Dinis Cruz – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
The Cyber Boardroom
OWASP - Top 10 for LLMs and Generative AI Apps
OWASP - Generative AI
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AI is more than GenAI
5 september 2024 · 40 min
GenAI is often what people think of when someone mentions AI. However, AI is much more. In this episode, Daniel breaks down a history of developments in data science, machine learning, AI, and GenAI in this episode to give listeners a better mental model. Don’t miss this one if you are wanting to understand the AI ecosystem holistically and how models, embeddings, data, prompts, etc. all fit together. Lees meer
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scikit-learn
AutoML in Google Cloud
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Metrics Driven Development
29 augustus 2024 · 42 min
How do you systematically measure, optimize, and improve the performance of LLM applications (like those powered by RAG or tool use)? Ragas is an open source effort that has been trying to answer this question comprehensively, and they are promoting a “Metrics Driven Development” approach. Shahul from Ragas joins us to discuss Ragas in this episode, and we dig into specific metrics, the difference between benchmarking models and evaluating LLM apps, generating synthetic test data and more. Lees meer
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Featuring:
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Ragas
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Threat modeling LLM apps
22 augustus 2024 · 55 min
If you have questions at the intersection of Cybersecurity and AI, you need to know Donato at WithSecure! Donato has been threat modeling AI applications and seriously applying those models in his day-to-day work. He joins us in this episode to discuss his LLM application security canvas, prompt injections, alignment, and more. Lees meer
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Featuring:
Donato Capitella – Website
Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
The Security Canvas for LLM Applications
LLM Security Chronicles Playlist on YouTube
Should you let ChatGPT control your browser?
When your AI assistant has an evil twin
Pliny the Liberator - jailbreak guru
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Only as good as the data
14 augustus 2024 · 46 min
You might have heard that “AI is only as good as the data.” What does that mean and what data are we talking about? Chris and Daniel dig into that topic in the episode exploring the categories of data that you might encounter working in AI (for training, testing, fine-tuning, benchmarks, etc.). They also discuss the latest developments in AI regulation with the EU’s AI Act coming into force. Lees meer
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Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
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Gaudi processors & Intel's AI portfolio
7 augustus 2024 · 46 min
There is an increasing desire for and effort towards GPU alternatives for AI workloads and an ability to run GenAI models on CPUs. Ben and Greg from Intel join us in this episode to help us understand Intel’s strategy as it related to AI along with related projects, hardware, and developer communities. We dig into Intel’s Gaudi processors, open source collaborations with Hugging Face, and AI on CPU/Xeon processors. Lees meer
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Benjamin Consolvo – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Greg Serochi – LinkedIn
Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
Intel’s AI & Machine Learning Ecosystem Developer Resources
Intel® Tiber™ Developer Cloud
Intel Gaudi AI Processors
Optimum Habana
Overview of AI tools from Intel
OpenVINO
Case Study: Prediction Guard De-Risks LLM Applications at Scale
How Prediction Guard Delivers Trustworthy AI on Intel® Gaudi® 2 AI Accelerators
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Broccoli AI at its best 🥦
31 juli 2024 · 43 min
We discussed “🥦 Broccoli AI” a couple weeks ago, which is the kind of AI that is actually good/healthy for a real world business. Bengsoon Chuah, a data scientist working in the energy sector, joins us to discuss developing and deploying NLP pipelines in that environment. We talk about good/healthy ways of introducing AI in a company that uses on-prem infrastructure, has few data science professionals, and operates in high risk environments. Lees meer
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Motific – Accelerate your GenAI adoption journey. Rapidly deliver trustworthy GenAI assistants. Learn more at motific.ai
Featuring:
Bengsoon Chuah – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
MLFlow
Prefect
DuckDB
Agrilla
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Hyperventilating over the Gartner AI Hype Cycle
24 juli 2024 · 55 min
This week Daniel & Chris hang with repeat guest and good friend Demetrios Brinkmann of the MLOps Community. Together they review, debate, and poke fun at the 2024 Gartner Hype Cycle chart for Artificial Intelligence. You are invited to join them in this light-hearted fun conversation about the state of hype in artificial intelligence. Lees meer
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Featuring:
Demetrios Brinkmann – X
Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
MLOps Community
MLOps Community Podcast
Gartner Hype Cycle for Artificial Intelligence, 2024
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The first real-time voice assistant
18 juli 2024 · 43 min
In the midst of the demos & discussion about OpenAI’s GPT-4o voice assistant, Kyutai swooped in to release the first real-time AI voice assistant model and a pretty slick demo (Moshi). Chris & Daniel discuss what this more open approach to a voice assistant might catalyze. They also discuss recent changes to Gartner’s ranking of GenAI on their hype cycle. Lees meer
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Featuring:
Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
Kyutai
Kyutai keynote video
Gartner Hype Cycle for AI
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