In this episode of Building With AI, host Haroon Choudery sits with Tomasz Tunguz, Founder and General Partner at Theory Ventures. Tomasz brings a valuable 10,000-foot view of the AI space, drawing from his 16 years of experience as a VC and previous work building machine learning systems at Google.
During the episode, Tomasz discusses:
- The modern data stack for LLMs,
- The significance of human evaluations,
- How to Identify high-value use cases for businesses,
- Midjourney's successful distribution strategy,
- And much more!
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[00:00] Up next:
[00:57] Episode introduction
[01:59] Autoblocks: AI Optimization Platform
[02:24] Tomasz's introduction
[03:47] The two waves of AI
[06:09] The modern data stack for LLMs
[11:27] The golden set of evaluations
[15:39] Why you need human evaluations
[17:27] Don't write off LLMs
[21:04] Identifying high-value AI use cases for your business
[25:30] The top industries LLMs will disrupt
[26:52] Advice for incumbents to win the AI race
[33:05] Advice for AI startups to disrupt industries
[34:31] The innovation equation
[37:16] Midjourney's successful distribution strategy
[39:15] Will AI move beyond non-determinism?
[43:21] The future relationship between AI and professionals
[48:05] How to keep up with AI developments
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Building with AI is a weekly podcast featuring conversations with top AI product builders and leaders. Through thoughtful dialogue, host Haroon Choudery (Co-founder of Autoblocks) uncovers tactical insights that help listeners build & scale world-class AI products.
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