
Infinite Curiosity Pod with Prateek Joshi
Prateek Joshi
The best place to find out how AI builders build. The host Prateek Joshi interviews world-class AI founders and VCs on this podcast. You can visit prateekj.com to learn more about the host.
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Voice-to-Voice Foundation Models
Infinite Curiosity Pod with Prateek Joshi
10/30/24 • 39 min
Alan Cowen is the cofounder and CEO of Hume, a company building voice-to-voice foundation models. They recently raised their $50M Series B from Union Square Ventures, Nat Friedman, Daniel Gross, and others.
Alan's favorite book: 1984 (Author: George Orwell)
(00:01) Introduction
(00:06) Defining Voice-to-Voice Foundation Models
(01:26) Historical Context: Handling Voice and Speech Understanding
(03:54) Emotion Detection in Voice AI Models
(04:33) Training Models to Recognize Human Emotion in Speech
(07:19) Cultural Variations in Emotional Expressions
(09:00) Semantic Space Theory in Emotion Recognition
(12:11) Limitations of Basic Emotion Categories
(15:50) Recognizing Blended Emotional States
(20:15) Objectivity in Emotion Science
(24:37) Practical Aspects of Deploying Voice AI Systems
(28:17) Real-Time System Constraints and Latency
(31:30) Advancements in Voice AI Models
(32:54) Rapid-Fire Round
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Where to find Prateek Joshi:
Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com
Website: https://prateekj.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19
Twitter: https://twitter.com/prateekvjoshi

Building Autonomous Greenhouses with AI and Robotics
Infinite Curiosity Pod with Prateek Joshi
11/12/24 • 37 min
Gilwoo Lee is the founder and CEO of Zordi, a company that builds and operates autonomous greenhouses with mobile robots and AI. They raised $20M in their most recent funding round led by Khosla Ventures. She has degrees from MIT, CMU, and University of Washington.
Gilwoo's favorite book: Masayoshi Son's 300-Year Plan (Author: Takashi Sugimoto)
(00:01) Introduction
(00:08) What is a Greenhouse?
(01:08) Greenhouse Usage in Different Regions
(02:45) Advantages and Challenges of Greenhouses
(06:15) Crops Suitable for Greenhouses
(08:23) Introduction to Autonomous Greenhouses
(10:40) Technology Stack of Autonomous Greenhouses
(12:17) Factors Affecting Crop Growth and Automation
(14:00) Data Requirements for AI Models in Greenhouses
(15:14) Upgrading Traditional Greenhouses to Autonomous
(17:26) Tasks Managed by Robots in Greenhouses
(18:45) Engineering Challenges in Robotics for Greenhouses
(20:16) Future of Robotics in Greenhouses
(21:39) Robotics Supply Chain and Standardization
(23:23) Verticalized vs. General-Purpose Robots
(27:16) Robotics Foundation Models
(29:52) Economics of Autonomous Greenhouses
(33:16) Future of Autonomous Farming
(34:01) Rapid Fire Round
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Where to find Prateek Joshi:
Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com
Website: https://prateekj.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19
Twitter: https://twitter.com/prateekvjoshi

AI Agents Have Brains, But Where Are Their Wallets?
Infinite Curiosity Pod with Prateek Joshi
12/10/24 • 47 min
Amias Gerety is a partner at QED Investors, a fintech-focused VC firm with $3.8 Billion under management. He was previously the Assistant Secretary at the US Department of Treasury. And he graduated from Harvard.
Amias's favorite book: The Origin of Species (Author: Charles Darwin)
(00:01) Introduction and Setting the Stage
(00:29) The Status Quo: AI Agents and Online Purchases
(02:20) The Current Payment Infrastructure Explained
(04:42) Automation Today: Auto-Complete and Recurring Payments
(06:09) Why AI Agents Need Dedicated Financial Infrastructure
(08:29) Historical Examples: Auctions, Bots, and Payment Systems
(09:32) Identifying and Verifying AI Agents in Commerce
(11:59) Risks of Agentic Commerce: Lessons from Knight Capital
(14:47) Stripe’s Role in Agent Payments: SDKs and Gaps
(19:46) Opportunities for Startups in Agentic Frameworks
(22:49) Challenges: Disputes, Chargebacks, and Reversals
(26:32) Regulation and Governance in Agentic Payments
(28:24) Building Merchant Trust in AI Transactions
(30:11) Needs of AI Developers: Reliability in Transactions
(33:04) The Future of Agentic Commerce and Microtransactions
(35:42) Building Consumer Trust in Agentic Systems
(38:45) Broader AI Applications in Finance
(40:13) Rapid Fire
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Where to find Amias Gerety:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amias-gerety/
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Where to find Prateek Joshi:
Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com
Website: https://prateekj.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19
Twitter: https://twitter.com/prateekvjoshi

What's new in ML: Space telescope, rare earth elements, universal speech translator, quantitative reasoning, quantum computing, robots handling deformable material, and how AI systems can explain a piece of code.
Infinite Curiosity Pod with Prateek Joshi
07/14/22 • 13 min
In this episode, Prateek Joshi talks about:
- Images captured by James Webb space telescope
- Discovery of rare earth elements in Turkey
- Meta's large language model NLLB-200 that can translate 200 languages
- Minerva: Google's AI system that can solve quantitative reasoning problems
- Google demonstrates quantum advantage for machine learning
- MIT and Stanford researchers show how robots can handle deformable material
- How GPT-3 can explain a piece of code

AMA with Prateek Joshi: Space industry, synthetic data in machine learning, foundation models, AI-infused coding tools
Infinite Curiosity Pod with Prateek Joshi
06/02/22 • 14 min
In this AMA episode, the host Prateek Joshi answers the following questions:
- How is machine learning being used in the space industry?
- How is synthetic data being used to train AI systems?
- Are foundation models going to become more prevalent in production ML systems?
- What do you think about AI-infused coding tools?

Thom Ives on his AI journey, creating educational content, establishing online presence, building a portfolio of machine learning projects, preventing burnout, how growth happens through cycles, storytelling for data scientists.
Infinite Curiosity Pod with Prateek Joshi
05/09/22 • 41 min
Thom Ives is the founder of Integrated Machine Learning & AI providing services and instruction in the data science community. And he is the lead data scientist at AI Strategy Corporation. He is the recipient of more than 25 US Patents for many different types of devices. He has a PhD in mechanical engineering and has over 47,000 followers on LinkedIn. He has built an amazing career over the last 30 years.
In this episode, we cover a range of topics including:
- His AI journey
- Creating educational content
- His upcoming book
- Building communities
- "You must first BE to DO to HAVE". What does this mean in our context of data science?
- Building a portfolio of projects as a data scientist
- Growth happens through cycles and maintenance is integral to cycling. How should a machine learning professional think about it?
- Establishing your online presence as a data scientist
- Preventing burnout and the importance of recovery periods
- Storytelling for data scientists
- Why he loves Python

Prateek talks about 11 things to keep in mind for software engineers to get into AI
Infinite Curiosity Pod with Prateek Joshi
07/13/23 • 18 min
AI has been attracting talent from many different sectors. In this episode, the host Prateek Joshi talks about 11 things to keep in mind for software engineers to get into AI.
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Where to find Prateek Joshi:
Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com
Website: https://prateekj.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19
Twitter: https://twitter.com/prateekvjoshi

Prateek talks about Federated Learning
Infinite Curiosity Pod with Prateek Joshi
07/20/23 • 18 min
In this episode, the host Prateek Joshi talks about why we need Federated Learning, how it works, and where it's used in the real world.
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Where to find Prateek Joshi:
Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com
Website: https://prateekj.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19
Twitter: https://twitter.com/prateekvjoshi

Prateek talks about Geometric Deep Learning
Infinite Curiosity Pod with Prateek Joshi
08/03/23 • 15 min
In this episode, the host Prateek Joshi talks about:
- The concept of Geometric Deep Learning
- Why do we need it
- How does it work
- Where is it used in the real world
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Where to find Prateek Joshi:
Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com
Website: https://prateekj.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19
Twitter: https://twitter.com/prateekvjoshi

Object store for AI workloads | Anand Babu Periasamy, cofounder and CEO of MinIO
Infinite Curiosity Pod with Prateek Joshi
08/28/23 • 40 min
Anand Babu "AB" Periasamy is the cofounder and CEO of MinIO, a high performance object storage for AI that's built for large scale workloads. They have raised $126M in funding from the likes of General Catalyst, Softbank, Intel Capital, and Nexus Venture Partners. It's the world's fastest growing object storage company with more than 1 billion Docker pulls and more than 35K stars on GitHub. He's also an angel investor with investments in companies like H2O.ai, Isovalent, Starburst, Postman, and many more. He was previously the cofounder and CTO of Gluster, which got acquired by Red Hat.
In this episode, we cover a range of topics including:
- Why is storage important for AI workflows
- What are the characteristics of a good data storage product
- Repatriation of data from public cloud to on-prem
- Running ML experiments in parallel
- AI compute offerings from data infrastructure providers
- Making data infrastructure faster and cheaper
AB's favorite book: An Awesome Book! (Author: Dallas Clayton)
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Where to find Prateek Joshi:
Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com
Website: https://prateekj.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19
Twitter: https://twitter.com/prateekvjoshi
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Infinite Curiosity Pod with Prateek Joshi currently has 171 episodes available.
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The average episode length on Infinite Curiosity Pod with Prateek Joshi is 37 minutes.
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Episodes of Infinite Curiosity Pod with Prateek Joshi are typically released every 6 days, 23 hours.
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The first episode of Infinite Curiosity Pod with Prateek Joshi was released on Mar 16, 2022.
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