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25 years of speech technology innovation
Practical AI
05/11/21 • 42 min


5 Listeners

RAG continues to rise
Practical AI
04/10/24 • 48 min
Daniel & Chris delight in conversation with “the funniest guy in AI”, Demetrios Brinkmann. Together they explore the results of the MLOps Community’s latest survey. They also preview the upcoming AI Quality Conference.
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- Demetrios Brinkmann – X
- Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
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- MLOps Community
- AI Quality Conference
- Evaluation Survey
- RAG failover talk from Jerry Lui
- Prompt Templates the Song
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Build a workspace of AI agents
Practical AI
03/08/25 • 47 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.
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- Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
- Scott Meyer - LinkedIn, X
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Creating tested, reliable AI applications
Practical AI
11/13/24 • 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.
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Should kids still learn to code?
Practical AI
04/02/24 • 39 min
In this fully connected episode, Daniel & Chris discuss NVIDIA GTC keynote comments from CEO Jensen Huang about teaching kids to code. Then they dive into the notion of “community” in the AI world, before discussing challenges in the adoption of generative AI by non-technical people. They finish by addressing the evolving balance between generative AI interfaces and search engines.
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- NVIDIA GTC March 2024 Keynote with NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang
- 5 Forces That Will Drive the Adoption of GenAI | Harvard Business Review
- Here’s why AI search engines really can’t kill Google | The Verge
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Deep-dive into DeepSeek
Practical AI
01/31/25 • 50 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.
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Gemini vs OpenAI
Practical AI
02/14/24 • 43 min
Google has been releasing a ton of new GenAI functionality under the name “Gemini”, and they’ve officially rebranded Bard as Gemini. We take some time to talk through Gemini compared with offerings from OpenAI, Anthropic, Cohere, etc.
We also discuss the recent FCC decision to ban the use of AI voices in robocalls and what the decision might mean for government involvement in AI in 2024.
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AI vs software devs
Practical AI
03/26/24 • 57 min
Daniel and Chris are out this week, so we’re bringing you conversations all about AI’s complicated relationship to software developers from other Changelog pods: JS Party, Go Time & The Changelog.
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- The Hacker Mindset – “The Hacker Mindset” written by Garrett Gee, a seasoned white hat hacker with over 20 years of experience, is available for pre-order now. This book reveals the secrets of white hat hacking and how you can apply them to overcome obstacles and achieve your goals. In a world where hacking often gets a bad rap, this book shows you the white hat side – the side focused on innovation, problem-solving, and ethical principles.
- Fly.io – The home of Changelog.com — Deploy your apps and databases close to your users. In minutes you can run your Ruby, Go, Node, Deno, Python, or Elixir app (and databases!) all over the world. No ops required. Learn more at fly.io/changelog and check out the speedrun in their docs.
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- Kent Quirk – GitHub, Mastodon, X
- Sharon DiOrio – X
- Steven Pyle – LinkedIn
- José Valim – Website, GitHub, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
- Johnny Boursiquot – Website, GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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- JS Party #317 (This will 404 until Thursday!)
- Go Time #306
- Changelog & Friends #28
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Computer scientists as rogue art historians
Practical AI
04/12/23 • 43 min
What can art historians and computer scientists learn from one another? Actually, a lot! Amanda Wasielewski joins us to talk about how she discovered that computer scientists working on computer vision were actually acting like rogue art historians and how art historians have found machine learning to be a valuable tool for research, fraud detection, and cataloguing. We also discuss the rise of generative AI and how we this technology might cause us to ask new questions like: “What makes a photograph a photograph?”
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AI search at You.com
Practical AI
03/15/23 • 42 min
Neural search and chat-based search are all the rage right now. However, You.com has been innovating in these topics long before ChatGPT. In this episode, Bryan McCann from You.com shares insights related to our mental model of Large Language Model (LLM) interactions and practical tips related to integrating LLMs into production systems.
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- Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
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FAQ
How many episodes does Practical AI have?
Practical AI currently has 461 episodes available.
What topics does Practical AI cover?
The podcast is about Deep Learning, Podcasts, Technology, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.
What is the most popular episode on Practical AI?
The episode title '25 years of speech technology innovation' is the most popular.
What is the average episode length on Practical AI?
The average episode length on Practical AI is 47 minutes.
How often are episodes of Practical AI released?
Episodes of Practical AI are typically released every 6 days, 19 hours.
When was the first episode of Practical AI?
The first episode of Practical AI was released on Jul 2, 2018.
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