Super Data Science: ML & AI Podcast with Jon Krohn
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938: Frontier AI Agents for Data Science, with Sphinx’s Rohan Kodialam
7 november 2025 · 19 min
Jon Krohn speaks to Rohan Kodialam, Cofounder and CEO of Sphinx, the company that redefines how machine intelligence reasons data with frontier AI. In this Feature Friday, Jon and Rohan discuss the benefits of using Sphinx to assist with data analysis. Get under the hood to learn how Sphinx operates, from running commands to ensuring your data stays secure, and find out how you can get your hands on this great tool for free. Lees meer
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937: How to Design AI-First Products, with Marc Dupuis
4 november 2025 · 1 uur
AI tools won’t eliminate but elevate data scientists, says Marc Dupuis. The CEO of fabi.ai talks to Jon Krohn about the new wave of AI-driven platforms that integrate workflows within popular work tools like Slack and email, and how building AI-first products means widening access to all ability levels. Lees meer
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In this episode you will learn:
(09:31) Will fabi.ai outshine data science practitioners
(20:40) Resolving workflows with fabi.ai
(24:08) Creating AI agents with fabi.ai
(45:23) How to avoid ‘gaming’ targets
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936: LLMs Are Delighted to Help Phishing Scams
31 oktober 2025 · 5 min
How much power – and risk – do we carry around with us in our pockets? A Reuters investigation about how easily LLMs can be utilized for online phishing scams is the subject of this week’s Five-Minute Friday with Jon Krohn. By asking six of the most popular LLMs (Grok, ChatGPT, Meta AI, Claude, DeepSeek and Gemini) to generate phishing emails specifically targeting elderly people, Reuters found the safety sometimes severely lacking in the models. Listen to the episode to hear Jon quantify this problem with real-world examples, why mere content warnings in LLM models don’t work, and the troubling results of the phishing requests. Lees meer
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935: Global Issues Accelerated by AI (with Solutions), feat. Stephanie Hare
28 oktober 2025 · 1 uur 17 min
Jon Krohn speaks to researcher, broadcaster and author Stephanie Hare about how the Hippocratic Oath might apply to artificial intelligence, and a guiding ethos for pushing innovation while protecting users from harm. A code of conduct, she says, could be one approach to ensuring that people are using technology more mindfully and ethically, as well as an opportunity for users to feel that they belong to a wider, global community. Although she sympathizes with people concerned by overregulation undermining innovation, Stephanie also notes that we expect certain standards to be met elsewhere, such as vehicle and drug safety, as well as fair journalistic practices. As Stephanie explains, we need to find a realistic middle ground between innovation and regulation. Lees meer
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In this episode you will learn:
(01:23) What ‘technology ethics’ is
(14:46) Developing a Hippocratic Oath for tech
(42:32) How to protect against sensationalism
(53:38) How to maintain a balance of growth and infrastructure
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934: Is AI Replacing Junior Workers?
24 oktober 2025 · 7 min
With the number of jobs dramatically slowing in the last year, many question if this decline is down to companies turning to AI for completing entry-level tasks in particular. Research published earlier this month by Yale University shows no major difference in the types of roles and tasks in so-called `white-collar jobs` since late 2022, an auspicious date that coincides with the launch of ChatGPT. In this week‘s Five-Minute Friday, host Jon Krohn discusses if and when AI will undercut junior-level jobs, particularly in the US. Lees meer
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933: Future-Proofing Your Career in the AI Era, feat. Sheamus McGovern
21 oktober 2025 · 1 uur 15 min
Sheamus McGovern, CEO of Open Data Science, takes Jon Krohn and his listeners on a journey to launching his popular data science and AI conference, now in its tenth year, as well as the great shifts to the fields that he has seen on the way. For Seamus, the growth of his Open Data Science Conference has shown him that an AI engineer is just the beginning of several roles that will emerge from the industry. He asks Jon to consider the breadth of tasks demanded of today’s engineers, from data profiling and transformation to feature engineering, hyper-parameter tuning, and model deployments. Just as the AI engineer emerged from the data scientist role, Seamus expects the industry to respond to the broadening range of projects and tools with new, niche, and dynamic job roles. Lees meer
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In this episode you will learn:
(02:50) Why Seamus started ODSC
(18:27) The differences in AI engineers and data scientists
(24:20) How to keep up with AI’s rapid pace
(33:51) How people hire for AI orchestration
(46:26) How companies can get team skillsets right
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932: Should You Build or Buy Your AI Solution? With Larissa Schneider
17 oktober 2025 · 29 min
Larissa Schneider speaks to Jon Krohn in this Feature Friday about finding the right time to invest in AI solutions, and when it’s better to build them yourself. She discusses her work leading global strategy and operations at Unframe, and how they raised $50 million in venture capital since the company’s launch in March 2025. Lees meer
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931: Boost Your Profits with Mathematical Optimization, feat. Jerry Yurchisin
14 oktober 2025 · 1 uur 13 min
AI predictions, and how to act on them: Data Science Strategist at Gurobi, Jerry Yurchisin, speaks to Jon Krohn about how mathematical optimization helps enterprises automate decisions for business success and where to find the resources to make it happen. Lees meer
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In this episode you will learn:
(02:34) What mathematical optimization is
(13:58) How to get started with mathematical optimization
(45:56) Gurobi’s use cases
(56:29) Quantum computing and mathematical optimization
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930: In Case You Missed It in September 2025
10 oktober 2025 · 37 min
Jon Krohn’s highlights from this month of interviews focus on ways to future-proof your career, looking at the hardware that will get you the most mileage, the emerging roles that are well worth a look, and the developments in AI that will endure in a field constantly testing the durability of its own breakthroughs. Lees meer
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929: Dragon Hatchling: The Missing Link Between Transformers and the Brain, with Adrian Kosowski
7 oktober 2025 · 1 uur 14 min
Breaking news: Jon Krohn welcomes Adrian Kosowski to the show to talk about the groundbreaking research happening at Pathway. Adrian and his team demonstrate how they have brought attention in AI closer to the way the brain functions, creating, in essence, a “massively parallel system of [artificial] neurons” that communicate with one another and exhibit properties similar to natural neurons. The goal is to move beyond the current limitations of transformers, where reasoning can be generalized across more complex and extended reasoning patterns, approximating a more human-like approach to problem-solving. Lees meer
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In this episode you will learn:
(01:27) Pathway’s ground-breaking new biologically inspired architecture
(20:40) Limitless context windows
(34:39) BDH architecture as positive space
(53:11) Building multilingual models
(1:01:07) How to access the BDH architecture
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928: The “Lethal Trifecta”: Can AI Agents Ever Be Safe?
3 oktober 2025 · 6 min
Prompt injections, malicious code, and AI agents: In this week’s Five-Minute Friday, Jon Krohn looks into the current security weaknesses found in AI systems. A structural vulnerability that The Economist dubs a “lethal trifecta” could cause havoc for AI users, unless we take the necessary steps to contain our systems. Lees meer
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927: Automating Code Review with AI, feat. CodeRabbit’s David Loker
30 september 2025 · 1 uur 19 min
Earlier this year, David Loker joined CodeRabbit as their Director of AI. As more people come to write code with the help of large language models, David believes CodeRabbit will become a helpful assistant for code reviewing and pull requests. He tells Jon Krohn how CodeRabbit assists developers with real-time feedback, as well as the reality of vibe coding, the optimization challenges of agentic AI, and other pressing questions in AI and tech. Lees meer
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In this episode you will learn:
(01:26) How CodeRabbit helps with coding
(17:30) Context engineering in context
(40:40) How CodeRabbit keeps data secure
(46:10) David’s thoughts on “vibe coding”
(1:03:04) If machines will ever be truly creative
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926: AI is Disrupting the Legal Industry: Are Paralegals Doomed?
26 september 2025 · 5 min
In this Five-Minute Friday, Jon Krohn explores how AI is reshaping the legal industry. He investigates how AI tools are helping lawyers make conclusions faster, how paralegals are being retrained, and the latest in-demand role in law (hint: It concerns AI). Listen to hear how Harvey AI and Thomson Reuters’ CoCounsel are using AI to help lawyers get ahead. Lees meer
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925: AI, Automation and the Future of Work, with Oxford’s Prof. Carl Benedikt Frey
23 september 2025 · 1 uur 10 min
Tech innovation’s dependence on economic systems, trust in technology throughout history, and job displacement through AI: The Dieter Schwartz Associate Professor of AI and work at the University of Oxford, Carl Benedikt Frey, talks to Jon Krohn about his latest book, How Progress Ends, as well as how different economic systems deal with innovation and scaling, dealing with the homogeneity of generative AI output, and how to stay afloat in the new wave of job automation. Lees meer
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In this episode you will learn:
(04:00) All about How Progress Ends: Technology, Innovation, and the Fate of Nations
(14:26) The role of weak ties in driving technological innovation
(18:22) How to keep innovating as a big business
(48:05) What we can learn and apply from previous industrial revolutions
(54:33) How workers can try to ‘future-proof’ themselves
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924: 95% of Enterprise AI Projects Fail (Per MIT Research)
19 september 2025 · 5 min
MIT lab NANDA (“Networked AI Agents in Decentralized Architecture”) reveals less than promising results for the future of AI adoption in businesses. According to “The GenAI Divide: State of AI in Business 2025”, a whopping 95% of enterprise AI projects “are getting zero return” on their $30-40 billion investment. Jon Krohn takes this Five-Minute Friday to look into why this has happened, with help from a critical response to the report written by Futuriom’s R. Scott Raynovich. Lees meer
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923: Graph Algorithms, GraphRAG and Causal Graphs, with Graph Guru Amy Hodler
16 september 2025 · 1 uur 4 min
Graphs, but not as you would expect them: Graph analytics guru Amy Hodler speaks to Jon Krohn about the graph data structure and graph applications, graph algorithms, graph RAG, and graphs as memory systems for AI agents. We can use graphs in a surprising number of ways. Money laundering and fraud, as well as supply-chain crime, leave breadcrumbs at multiple “touch-points” over time, behaviors that graphs are better suited to reveal than rows and tables. Amy sees that most interest in graphs has been in the cybersecurity space. But this work isn’t only restricted to fighting crime! Listen to the episode to hear more case examples and how to get into graph work. Lees meer
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In this episode you will learn:
01:49) A brief history of graphs
(10:08) Uncovering fraud with graphs
(28:31) Where graphs are most commonly applied, to date
(34:49) Retrieval augmented generation graphs
(48:04) The future of graphs
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922: AI for Manufacturing and Industry, with Hugo Dozois-Caouette
12 september 2025 · 28 min
Hugo Dozois-Caouette speaks to Jon Krohn about his startup MaintainX and how he secured $254 million in venture capital, reaching a $2.5 billion valuation. MaintainX builds computerized maintenance management systems (CMMS) and enterprise asset management (EAM) software for industrial and manufacturing companies. This "digital clipboard" delivered through web and mobile apps connects machines, work orders, and frontline teams to boost productivity, reduce downtime, and prevent costly breakdowns. The platform captures knowledge from experienced workers and delivers AI-powered insights, with features like MaintainX CoPilot helping teams troubleshoot issues and make faster decisions. Listen to the episode to hear Hugo's perspective on manufacturing gaps that technology can fill, MaintainX's tech stack, and how CMMS platforms address information disconnects that slow down frontline teams. Lees meer
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921: NPUs vs GPUs vs CPUs for Local AI Workloads, with Dell’s Ish Shah and Shirish Gupta
9 september 2025 · 1 uur 12 min
Using Windows for AI development and the bleeding edge of NPUs: Shirish Gupta and Ish Shah from Dell Technologies speak to Jon Krohn about the latest products from Dell, the future of neural-processing units (NPUs), and how AI developers can make sound hardware investments. Lees meer
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In this episode you will learn:
(04:18) Why Windows still outranks other operating systems
(20:58) The difference between GPUs and NPUs
(32:44) How to access and use Dell’s NPUs and GPUs
(49:08) Using processing units on the cloud versus locally
(57:43) About the Dell Pro Max
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920: In Case You Missed It in August 2025
5 september 2025 · 22 min
This month’s episode of In Case You Missed It gives us reasons to be cautiously optimistic about the future of large language models (LLMs), with guests discussing what to do about recent reports that found AI agents blackmailed human users when threatened, the importance of post-training LLMs, and the training we have available for data and AI engineers to create robust, secure, and useful AI. Jon Krohn includes clips from his interviews with Akshay Agrawal (Episode 911), Julien Launay (Episode 913), Michelle Yi (Episode 915), and Kirill Eremenko (Episode 917). Lees meer
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919: Hopes and Fears of AGI, with All-Time Bestselling ML Author Aurélien Géron
2 september 2025 · 1 uur 30 min
PyTorch, AGI, and the future of alignment research: Aurélien Géron joins Jon Krohn in this live interview to talk about the fourth edition of his bestselling Hands-On Machine Learning as well as what superintelligence makes him hopeful for, as well as what concerns him about machines surpassing human intelligence. Lees meer
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In this episode you will learn:
(02:04) Why Aurélien wrote Hands-On Machine Learning
(20:54) How Aurélien came to decide on material for the new edition
(28:53) Aurélien’s predictions for AGI
(51:21) How to support alignment research
(1:13:42) Does superintelligence mean super-capability
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918: Multi-Agent Systems with CrewAI
29 augustus 2025 · 9 min
In this Five-Minute Friday, Jon Krohn introduces listeners to CrewAI, an open-source Python framework that can create and manage multi-agent teams. The clue is in the title: CrewAI assembles specialized agents into single “crews” that achieve complex goals between them. CrewAI’s agent teams can also learn and iterate, meaning that after the crew has achieved its goals for the first time, they can refine and tailor their approach to future goals. Lees meer
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917: 8 Steps to Becoming an AI Engineer, with Kirill Eremenko
26 augustus 2025 · 1 uur 16 min
Founder of SuperDataScience, Kirill Eremenko, talks to Jon Krohn about how he found the best tools and approaches to help launch his 8-week AI engineering bootcamp. He breaks down the topics participants cover each week, and he also shares his tips with listeners who might want to start their own tech bootcamp or sign up for SuperDataScience’s September 2025 cohort. Lees meer
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In this episode you will learn:
(10:58) Weeks 1-4 of the SuperDataScience bootcamp
(37:52) How to use AI to drive the bottom line in business
(47:50) Weeks 5-8 of the SuperDataScience bootcamp
(54:50) How to convert LLMs to agents
(1:09:33) Jon’s feedback on the SuperDataSciencebootcamp
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916: The 5 Key GPT-5 Takeaways
22 augustus 2025 · 10 min
GPT-5 has just been released, but with not very much fanfare. In this Five-Minute Friday, Jon Krohn asks if GPT-5 deserves the community’s underwhelmed response to its release. He outlines five features of the model and explains why people might be feeling less than enthusiastic in the broader context of LLM development. Which LLMs are leading the way, and which are still playing the game of catch-up? Lees meer
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915: How to Jailbreak LLMs (and How to Prevent It), with Michelle Yi
19 augustus 2025 · 1 uur 10 min
Tech leader, investor, and Generationship cofounder Michelle Yi talks to Jon Krohn about finding ways to trust and secure AI systems, the methods that hackers use to jailbreak code, and what users can do to build their own trustworthy AI systems. Learn all about “red teaming” and how tech teams can handle other key technical terms like data poisoning, prompt stealing, jailbreaking and slop squatting. Lees meer
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In this episode you will learn:
(03:31) What “trustworthy AI” means
(31:15) How to build trustworthy AI systems
(46:55) About Michelle’s “sorry bench”
(48:13) How LLMs help construct causal graphs
(51:45) About Generationship
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914: Data Lakes 101 (and Why They’re Key for AI Models), with Oz Katz
15 augustus 2025 · 26 min
In this Five-Minute Friday, Cofounder and CTO of lakeFS Oz Katz talks to Jon Krohn about data warehouses, data lakes, and how companies can handle increasingly complex data infrastructures and formats. Hear about lakeFS’s collaboration with Legofest, lakeFS’s approach to helping users collaborate on data lakes, and how to overcome the challenges of working with multimodal data. Lees meer
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913: LLM Pre-Training and Post-Training 101, with Julien Launay
12 augustus 2025 · 1 uur 15 min
Julien Launay launched Adaptive to give data science teams in business enterprises their “RLOps tooling” to make reinforcement learning easier. Talking to Jon Krohn, Julien says, “Most of our users are data scientists who write Python codes to interface with the system”. Adaptive is also able to work with companies without data science teams, collaborating with partners like Deloitte to add the necessary personnel. Julien is currently working on making his platform more widely available. Lees meer
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912: In Case You Missed It in July 2025
8 augustus 2025 · 33 min
In this episode of In Case You Missed It, we look back on five great interview episodes from July. Hear from Lilith Bat-Leah (Episode 901), Sinan Ozdemir (Episode 903), Sebastian Gehrmann (Episode 905), Zohar Bronfman (Episode 907) and Robert Ness (Episode 909). They’ll tell you why data-centric machine learning is so important across disciplines, starting with law, and how we can use AI benchmarks and “red teaming” to refine our search for the best AI models. Lees meer
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911: The Future of Python Notebooks is Here, with Marimo’s Dr. Akshay Agrawal
5 augustus 2025 · 58 min
Reproducibility, Python notebooks, and data science communities: Software developer Akshay Agrawal speaks to Jon Krohn about Marimo, the next-generation computational notebook for Python, how he built and fostered a thriving community around the product, and what makes this notebook so versatile and accessible for users. Lees meer
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910: AI is Disrupting Journalism: The Good, The Bad and The Opportunity
1 augustus 2025 · 10 min
In this Five-Minute Friday, Jon Krohn looks into AI’s disruption of the journalism industry and how it has fundamentally reshaped news production. Multiple news outlets’ suing of ChatGPT over its use of copyrighted materials may have taken the most headlines to date, but this isn’t to say news media is rebuffing AI entirely. On the contrary, several outlets have launched summarization and analysis tools for both internal and external use, such as The New York Times’s Echo and The Washington Post’s Haystacker. This episode looks into the ways major news outlets are utilising AI, and what this means for journalists. Lees meer
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909: Causal AI, with Dr. Robert Usazuwa Ness
29 juli 2025 · 1 uur 22 min
Researcher at Microsoft Robert Usazuwa Ness talks to Jon Krohn about how to achieve causality in AI with correlation-based learning, the right libraries, and handling statistical inference. When dealing with causal AI, Robert notes how important it is to keep aware of variables in the data that may mislead us and force inaccurate assumptions. Not all variables will be useful. It is essential, then, that any assumptions are grounded in a deeper understanding of how the data were gathered, and not what appears in the dataset. Listen to the episode to hear how you can apply causal AI to your projects. Lees meer
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908: AI Agents Blackmail Humans 96% of the Time (Agentic Misalignment)
25 juli 2025 · 9 min
The moral and ethical implications of letting AI take the wheel in business, as revealed by Anthropic: Jon Krohn looks into Anthropic’s latest research on how to use and deploy LLMs safely, specifically in business environments. The team designed scenarios to test the behavior of AI agents when given a goal and a set of obstacles to reach it. Those obstacles included 1) threats to the AI’s continued operation, and 2) conflict between the AI’s goals and the goals of the company. Hear Jon break down the results of this research in this Five-Minute Friday. Lees meer
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907: Neuroscience, AI and the Limitations of LLMs, with Dr. Zohar Bronfman
22 juli 2025 · 1 uur 21 min
“Intelligence has many forms,” says Zohar Bronfman, who speaks with Jon Krohn about the fascinating intersection between computational neuroscience and philosophy, and how it has brought him closer to understanding what is necessary to develop human-like intelligence in machines, as well as his motivations for launching Pecan AI and why predictive models outstrip generative models in business. Lees meer
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In this episode you will learn:
(03:47) Why LLMs aren’t bringing us closer to AGI
(33:44) About Pecan AI
(51:03) Why data modeling is so challenging
(1:01:25) How Pecan AI makes its tools widely accessible
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906: How Prof. Jason Corso Solved Computer Vision’s Data Problem
18 juli 2025 · 29 min
Jason Corso speaks to Jon Krohn in this Five-Minute Friday all about Voxel51’s latest tool, Verified Auto-Labelling, and the company’s incredible success in developing popular tools for computer vision. Lees meer
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905: Why RAG Makes LLMs Less Safe (And How to Fix It), with Bloomberg’s Dr. Sebastian Gehrmann
15 juli 2025 · 58 min
RAG LLMs are not safer: Sebastian Gehrmann speaks to Jon Krohn about his latest research into how retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) actually makes LLMs less safe, the three ‘H’s for gauging the effectivity and value of a RAG, and the custom guardrails and procedures we need to use to ensure our RAG is fit-for-purpose and secure. This is a great episode for anyone who wants to know how to work with RAG in the context of LLMs, as you’ll hear how to select the best model for purpose, useful approaches and taxonomies to keep your projects secure, and which models he finds safest when RAG is applied. Lees meer
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In this episode you will learn:
(03:28) Findings from the paper “RAG LLMs are Not Safer: A Safety Analysis of Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Large Language Models”
(09:35) What attack surfaces are in the context of AI
(38:51) Small versus large models with RAG
(46:27) How to select an LLM with safety in mind
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904: A.I. is Disrupting the Entire Advertising Industry
11 juli 2025 · 9 min
In this Five-Minute Friday, Jon Krohn reveals how AI is taking on the glitzy world of advertising. Bold claims from Meta and OpenAI contend that users will soon be able to plug in what they want and have AI churn out an ad campaign for little to no cost are shaking the advertising industry to its core. The fact that the four biggest sellers of ads (Google, Meta, Amazon, and ByteDance) are digital companies and accounted for over half of the global market in 2024 adds salt to the wound. Hear the three ways that AI is disrupting the industry, and who (or what) has the most influence on digital consumers to date. Lees meer
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903: LLM Benchmarks Are Lying to You (And What to Do Instead), with Sinan Ozdemir
8 juli 2025 · 1 uur 28 min
Has AI benchmarking reached its limit, and what do we have to fill this gap? Sinan Ozdemir speaks to Jon Krohn about the lack of transparency in training data and the necessity of human-led quality assurance to detect AI hallucinations, when and why to be skeptical of AI benchmarks, and the future of benchmarking agentic and multimodal models. Lees meer
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In this episode you will learn:
(16:48) Sinan’s new podcast, Practically Intelligent
(21:54) What to know about the limits of AI benchmarking
(53:22) Alternatives to AI benchmarks
(1:01:23) The difficulties in getting a model to recognize its mistakes
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902: In Case You Missed It in June 2025
4 juli 2025 · 29 min
In this episode of “In Case You Missed It”, Jon recaps his June interviews on The SuperDataScience Podcast. Hear from Diane Hare, Avery Smith, Kirill Eremenko, and Shaun Johnson as they talk about the best portfolios for AI practitioners, how to stand out in a saturated candidate market for AI roles, how to tell when an AI startup is going places, and ways to lead AI change in business. Lees meer
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901: Automating Legal Work with Data-Centric ML (feat. Lilith Bat-Leah)
1 juli 2025 · 1 uur 6 min
Senior Director of AI Labs for Epiq Lilith Bat-Leah speaks to Jon Krohn about the ways AI have disrupted the legal industry using LLMs and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), as well as how the data-centric machine learning research movement (DMLR) is systematically improving data quality, and why that is so important. Lees meer
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In this episode you will learn:
(05:45) Deciphering legal tech terms (TAR, e-discovery)
(13:47) How legal firms use data and AI
(29:01) All about data-centric machine learning research (DMLR)
(46:58) Lilith’s career journey in the AI industry
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900: 95-Year-Old Annie on How to Stay Healthy and Happy
27 juni 2025 · 15 min
“Stay happy and healthy”: In this special Five-Minute Friday, Jon Krohn speaks with Annie, his grandmother, on her 95th birthday. Hear how she is physically and mentally coping with illnesses that limit her mobility and the joys of having a pet. Lees meer
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899: Landing $200k+ AI Roles: Real Cases from the SuperDataScience Community, with Kirill Eremenko
24 juni 2025 · 1 uur 33 min
Data science skills, a data science bootcamp, and why Python and SQL still reign supreme: In this episode, Kirill Eremenko returns to the podcast to speak to Jon Krohn about SuperDataScience subscriber success stories, where to focus in a field that is evolving incredibly quickly, and why in-person working and networking might give you the edge over other candidates in landing a top AI role. Lees meer
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In this episode you will learn:
(04:35) Stories from five SuperDataScience subscribers
(27:32) How to secure a career in a fast-paced industry
(44:19) How to stand out against huge competition in data science
(1:01:40) The importance of communication in data science
(1:16:41) Where to focus your skills in AI engineering
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898: My Four-Hour Agentic AI Workshop is Live and 100% Free
20 juni 2025 · 5 min
In this Five-Minute Friday, Jon Krohn announces his new, free workshop on Agentic AI. On this four-hour comprehensive course, you’ll learn the key terminology for working with these flexible, multi-agent systems and then get to grips with developing and deploying this artificial “team of experts” for all your AI-driven projects. Lees meer
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897: How to Enable Enterprise AI Transformation, with Strategy Consultant Diane Hare
17 juni 2025 · 1 uur 3 min
Diane Hare talks to Jon Krohn about the power of storytelling for corporate buy-in of AI initiatives, how to actively implement AI to transform organizations, and how emerging professionals can upskill themselves. Hear how she discovered her background in storytelling at Ernst & Young and her work with Simon Sinek, which she finds to be integral to her process. Inspired by Sinek’s aphorism “start with why”, Diane notes that many companies neglect this crucial part of their mission because they never take the time to work on it. Lees meer
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In this episode you will learn:
(04:51) How Y Carrot works with BizLove
(14:19) How BizLove prioritizes change management
(29:18) How to upskill effectively
(42:37) How BizLove integrated data from two enterprises
(48:52) How to enable change in your business
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896: AI (Probably) Isn’t Taking Your Job (At Least Anytime Soon)
13 juni 2025 · 8 min
The Economist reported that global Google searches for "AI unemployment" hit an all-time high earlier this year. But do we have to worry about AI taking our jobs? In this week’s Five-Minute Friday, Jon Krohn investigates whether the rise of AI has directly led to an increase in unemployment. Lees meer
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895: The Future of Enterprise AI: Investor Shaun Johnson Reveals What Actually Works
10 juni 2025 · 1 uur 16 min
How to get funded by a VC specializing in AI: Head of AIX Ventures Shaun Johnson talks to Jon Krohn about investment strategies, how to simplify AI adoption, why a little competition can be so beneficial to AI startups, and how Big Tech is circumventing anti-monopoly measures. Lees meer
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In this episode you will learn:
(10:36) What Shaun looks for when evaluating early-stage AI startups
(19:11) Building out AI startups
(41:44) How AI practitioners can future-proof their careers
(45:27) How to measure AI impact
(53:30) The key verticals ripe for AI disruption
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894: In Case You Missed It in May 2025
6 juni 2025 · 30 min
In this episode of “In Case You Missed It”, Jon Krohn takes clips from interviews with guests in May 2025. From AI agent integration and RAG-based chatbots to education through virtual reality headsets and data harmonization, this episode explores how industry leaders are developing the tools and technologies that can improve operations, education, healthcare, and marketing. Highlight clips are with John Roese, Global Chief Technology Officer and Chief AI Officer at Dell Technologies (Episode 887), Senior Developer Relations Engineer at Posit, PBC Jeroen Janssens and Lead Data Scientist at Xomnia Thijs Nieuwdorp (Episode 885), Founder of CEEK Mary Spio (Episode 889), and Martin Brunthaler, Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer at Adverity (Episode 891). Lees meer
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893: How to Jumpstart Your Data Career (by Applying Like a Scientist), with Avery Smith
3 juni 2025 · 1 uur 18 min
Avery Smith is a passionate and motivational YouTuber and careers educator for data science. In this episode, Jon Krohn asks Avery about the tools and tricks he has learned from personal experience and from his students in how to get ahead in the tech industry. Avery shares the “learning ladder” he uses to help newcomers start on the right foot with great examples from former bootcamp students who have put his theories into practice. And, if you’re using LinkedIn to find jobs, Avery explains why this might be one of the reasons you’re not getting work. Lees meer
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In this episode you will learn:
(04:02) How to take the jump into a data science career
(15:19) Avery’s recommended strategy for starting a career in data science
(18:10) Recommendations for people learning data science with LLMs
(32:52) What should go into a data science portfolio
(46:07) Why Avery prefers practice over theory in teaching data science
(48:25) The bare minimum to get your first job in data science
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892: We’re In The AI “Trough of Disillusionment” (and that’s Great!)
30 mei 2025 · 12 min
Businesses have entered a “trough of disillusionment” for AI. In this Five-Minute Friday, Jon Krohn learns why Fortune 500 execs are so frustrated with the tools and how they can work their way up the “slope of enlightenment” towards effective AI. Hear why AI takeup hasn’t so far gone to plan in the corporate world and what that world needs from AI to encourage greater business engagement. Lees meer
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891: Conversational AI is Overhauling Data Analytics, with Martin Brunthaler
27 mei 2025 · 1 uur 2 min
Martin Brunthaler talks to Jon Krohn about founding Adverity, a data analytics platform for marketing that simplifies integrating data from multiple sources and crunching them into actionable insights. Learn how Adverity became a data analytics powerhouse serving multiple industries, and why Martin thinks AI will strengthen rather than diminish the job market for data scientists, data analysts, and machine learning engineers. Lees meer
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In this episode you will learn:
(03:52) How Martin co-founded Adverity
(14:26) The features of Adverity
(39:24) If data analysts, data scientists, and ML engineers should worry about Adverity making their job redundant
(48:29) Martin’s predictions for the future for data analysts and data scientists
(51:39) Martin’s tips for success as a CTO
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890: The “State of AI” Report 2025
23 mei 2025 · 7 min
In this week’s Five-Minute Friday, Jon Krohn reveals highlights from Stanford University’s AI Index Report. Released a few weeks ago by the Institute for Human-Centered AI, this annual report details the incredible technical advances, policies, and investments in artificial intelligence. Hear which models achieve the best performance relative to their size, in what scenarios top AI systems can outperform humans (and when humans still outperform AI), and more in Jon’s five key takeaways. Lees meer
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889: AI-Powered Virtual Reality: The Future of Education and Entertainment, with Mary Spio
20 mei 2025 · 1 uur 7 min
Founder of CEEK’s Mary Spio talks to Jon Krohn about how the platform contributes to the emerging community of digital creators with its blockchain-powered virtual experiences. Hear how Mary got her first investors for CEEK and how it is used across industries as diverse as education, entertainment, aviation, and healthcare. Lees meer
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In this episode you will learn:
(03:42) What CEEK is and the multiple industries it serves
(38:47) How Mary developed VR headsets to reduce nausea experienced by women headset users
(42:10) The growing potential for immersive experiences
(44:36) How to mitigate the risks of immersive-experience misuse
(51:56) Mary’s tips for career success