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Emad Mostaque — Stable Diffusion, Stability AI, and What’s Next
Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI
11/15/22 • 70 min
Emad Mostaque is CEO and co-founder of Stability AI, a startup and network of decentralized developer communities building open AI tools. Stability AI is the company behind Stable Diffusion, the well-known, open source, text-to-image generation model.
Emad shares the story and mission behind Stability AI (unlocking humanity's potential with open AI technology), and explains how Stability's role as a community catalyst and compute provider might evolve as the company grows. Then, Emad and Lukas discuss what the future might hold in store: big models vs "optimal" models, better datasets, and more decentralization.
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🎶 Special note: This week’s theme music was composed by Weights & Biases’ own Justin Tenuto with help from Harmonai’s Dance Diffusion.
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Show notes (transcript and links): http://wandb.me/gd-emad-mostaque
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⏳ Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
00:42 How AI fits into the safety/security industry
09:33 Event matching and object detection
14:47 Running models on the right hardware
17:46 Scaling model evaluation
23:58 Monitoring and evaluation challenges
26:30 Identifying and sorting issues
30:27 Bridging vision and language domains
39:25 Challenges and promises of natural language technology
41:35 Production environment
43:15 Using synthetic data
49:59 Working with startups
53:55 Multi-task learning, meta-learning, and user experience
56:44 Optimization and testing across multiple platforms
59:36 Outro
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Connect with Jehan and Motorola Solutions:
📍 Jehan on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jehanw/
📍 Jehan on Twitter: https://twitter.com/jehan/
📍 Motorola Solutions on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MotoSolutions/
📍 Careers at Motorola Solutions: https://www.motorolasolutions.com/en_us/about/careers.html
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💬 Host: Lukas Biewald
📹 Producers: Riley Fields, Angelica Pan, Lavanya Shukla, Anish Shah
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AI’s Future: Investment & Impact with Sarah Guo and Elad Gil
Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI
01/18/24 • 64 min
Explore the Future of Investment & Impact in AI with Host Lukas Biewald and Guests Elad Gill and Sarah Guo of the No Priors podcast.
Sarah is the founder of Conviction VC, an AI-centric $100 million venture fund. Elad, a seasoned entrepreneur and startup investor, boasts an impressive portfolio in over 40 companies, each valued at $1 billion or more, and wrote the influential "High Growth Handbook."
Join us for a deep dive into the nuanced world of AI, where we'll explore its broader industry impact, focusing on how startups can seamlessly blend product-centric approaches with a balance of innovation and practical development.
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Timestamps:
0:00 - Introduction
5:15 - Exploring Fine-Tuning vs RAG in AI
10:30 - Evaluating AI Research for Investment
15:45 - Impact of AI Models on Product Development
20:00 - AI's Role in Evolving Job Markets
25:15 - The Balance Between AI Research and Product Development
30:00 - Code Generation Technologies in Software Engineering
35:00 - AI's Broader Industry Implications
40:00 - Importance of Product-Driven Approaches in AI Startups
45:00 - AI in Various Sectors: Beyond Software Engineering
50:00 - Open Source vs Proprietary AI Models
55:00 - AI's Impact on Traditional Roles and Industries
1:00:00 - Closing Thoughts
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Piero Molino — The Secret Behind Building Successful Open Source Projects
Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI
02/11/21 • 36 min

Richard Socher — The Challenges of Making ML Work in the Real World
Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI
09/29/20 • 50 min

Zack Chase Lipton — The Medical Machine Learning Landscape
Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI
09/17/20 • 59 min

Jeremy Howard — The Simple but Profound Insight Behind Diffusion
Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI
01/05/23 • 72 min
Jeremy Howard is a co-founder of fast.ai, the non-profit research group behind the popular massive open online course "Practical Deep Learning for Coders", and the open source deep learning library "fastai".
Jeremy is also a co-founder of #Masks4All, a global volunteer organization founded in March 2020 that advocated for the public adoption of homemade face masks in order to help slow the spread of COVID-19. His Washington Post article "Simple DIY masks could help flatten the curve." went viral in late March/early April 2020, and is associated with the U.S CDC's change in guidance a few days later to recommend wearing masks in public.
In this episode, Jeremy explains how diffusion works and how individuals with limited compute budgets can engage meaningfully with large, state-of-the-art models. Then, as our first-ever repeat guest on Gradient Dissent, Jeremy revisits a previous conversation with Lukas on Python vs. Julia for machine learning.
Finally, Jeremy shares his perspective on the early days of COVID-19, and what his experience as one of the earliest and most high-profile advocates for widespread mask-wearing was like.
Show notes (transcript and links): http://wandb.me/gd-jeremy-howard-2
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⏳ Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
1:06 Diffusion and generative models
14:40 Engaging with large models meaningfully
20:30 Jeremy's thoughts on Stable Diffusion and OpenAI
26:38 Prompt engineering and large language models
32:00 Revisiting Julia vs. Python
40:22 Jeremy's science advocacy during early COVID days
1:01:03 Researching how to improve children's education
1:07:43 The importance of executive buy-in
1:11:34 Outro
1:12:02 Bonus: Weights & Biases
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📝 Links
📍 Jeremy's previous Gradient Dissent episode (8/25/2022): http://wandb.me/gd-jeremy-howard
📍 "Simple DIY masks could help flatten the curve. We should all wear them in public.", Jeremy's viral Washington Post article: https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/03/28/masks-all-coronavirus/
📍 "An evidence review of face masks against COVID-19" (Howard et al., 2021), one of the first peer-reviewed papers on the effectiveness of wearing masks: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2014564118
📍 Jeremy's Twitter thread summary of "An evidence review of face masks against COVID-19": https://twitter.com/jeremyphoward/status/1348771993949151232
📍 Read more about Jeremy's mask-wearing advocacy: https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/australian-expat-s-push-for-universal-mask-wearing-catches-fire-in-the-us-20200401-p54fu2.html
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Connect with Jeremy and fast.ai:
📍 Jeremy on Twitter: https://twitter.com/jeremyphoward
📍 fast.ai on Twitter: https://twitter.com/FastDotAI
📍 Jeremy on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/howardjeremy/
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💬 Host: Lukas Biewald
📹 Producers: Riley Fields, Angelica Pan

Cristóbal Valenzuela — The Next Generation of Content Creation and AI
Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI
01/19/23 • 40 min
Cristóbal Valenzuela is co-founder and CEO of Runway ML, a startup that's building the future of AI-powered content creation tools. Runway's research areas include diffusion systems for image generation.
Cris gives a demo of Runway's video editing platform. Then, he shares how his interest in combining technology with creativity led to Runway, and where he thinks the world of computation and content might be headed to next. Cris and Lukas also discuss Runway's tech stack and research.
Show notes (transcript and links): http://wandb.me/gd-cristobal-valenzuela
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⏳ Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
1:06 How Runway uses ML to improve video editing
6:04 A demo of Runway’s video editing capabilities
13:36 How Cris entered the machine learning space
18:55 Cris’ thoughts on the future of ML for creative use cases
28:46 Runway’s tech stack
32:38 Creativity, and keeping humans in the loop
36:15 The potential of audio generation and new mental models
40:01 Outro
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🎥 Runway's AI Film Festival is accepting submissions through January 23! 🎥
They are looking for art and artists that are at the forefront of AI filmmaking. Submissions should be between 1-10 minutes long, and a core component of the film should include generative content
📍 https://aiff.runwayml.com/
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📝 Links
📍 "High-Resolution Image Synthesis with Latent Diffusion Models" (Rombach et al., 2022)", the research paper behind Stable Diffusion: https://research.runwayml.com/publications/high-resolution-image-synthesis-with-latent-diffusion-models
📍 Lexman Artificial, a 100% AI-generated podcast: https://twitter.com/lexman_ai
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Connect with Cris and Runway:
📍 Cris on Twitter: https://twitter.com/c_valenzuelab
📍 Runway on Twitter: https://twitter.com/runwayml
📍 Careers at Runway: https://runwayml.com/careers/
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💬 Host: Lukas Biewald
📹 Producers: Riley Fields, Angelica Pan
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Joaquin Candela — Definitions of Fairness
Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI
10/01/20 • 79 min

Jasper AI's Dave Rogenmoser & Saad Ansari on Growing & Maintaining an LLM-Based Company
Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI
02/17/23 • 69 min
About this episode
In this episode of Gradient Dissent, Lukas interviews Dave Rogenmoser (CEO & Co-Founder) and Saad Ansari (Director of AI) of Jasper AI, a generative AI company with a focus on text generation for content like blog posts, articles, and more. The company has seen impressive growth since it's launch at the start of 2021.
Lukas talks with Dave and Saad about how Jasper AI was able to sell the capabilities of large language models as a product so successfully, and how they are able to continually improve their product and take advantage of steps forward in the AI industry at large.
They also speak on how they keep their business ahead of the competition, where they put their focus on in terms of R&D, and how they are able to keep the insights they've learned over the years relevant at all times as their company grows in employee count and company value.
Other topics include the potential use of generative AI in domains it hasn't necessarily seen yet, as well as the impact that community and user feedback plays on the constant tweaking and tuning processes that machine learning models go through.
Connect with Dave & Saad:
Find Dave on Twitter and LinkedIn.
Find Saad on LinkedIn.
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💬 Host: Lukas Biewald
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AI's Future: Spatial Data with Paul Copplestone
Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI
12/21/23 • 58 min
Dive into the remarkable journey of Paul Copplestone, CEO of Supabase in this episode of Gradient Dissent Business. Paul recounts his unique experiences, having started with a foundation in web development before venturing into innovative projects in agriculture, blending his rural roots with technological advancements.Throughout our conversation with Paul we uncover his coding and database management skills, and learn how his diverse background was instrumental in shaping his approach to building a thriving tech company.
This episode covers everything from challenges in the AI and database industries to the future of spatial data and embeddings. Join us as we explore the fascinating world of innovation, the importance of diverse perspectives, and the future of AI, data storage, and spatial data.
We discuss:
0:00 What is supabase.com?
03:07 Exploration of exciting use cases
06:15 Challenges in the AI and Database Industry
12:30 Role of Multimodal Models
16:45 Innovations in Data Storage
22:10 Diverse Perspectives on Technology
29:20 The Importance of Intellectual Honesty
36:00 Building a Company and Navigating Challenges
42:30 The Impact of Global Experience
49:20 The Future of AI and Spatial Data
54:00 Integrating Spatial Data into Digital Systems
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