006: AI Hot Topics with Kris Mondlane

Listen in as we talk with Kris Mondlane, AI Product & Innovation Leader in Somerville, MA.About Kris: He has 10+ years translating emerging technologies into scalable, high-impact solutions for Fortune 500s, governments, and startups. His expertise is in AI product strategy, enterprise adoption, and rapid prototyping, delivering internal tools and customer-facing products across insurance, fintech, and healthcare.His Approach: Kris combines user-centered design, agile execution, and executive facilitation to drive measurable performance gains, revenue lift, and improved customer outcomes.In the episode he shares his knowledge about:--Sundai Club--Evals for Agents--Observability, Alignment--Anthropic's recent blog post on how they do evals--Deterministic vs Non-deterministic programming--Finding "the best worst option"--Governance HIPAA, SOC 2, ISO--Negative Externalities--Agent Memory--Asking AI to articulate one's blind spots--Inference, Models, GPU's--BAA's (Business Associate Agreement)--The Holy Grail: Running One's Own ModelGUEST LINKS===========Kris on LinkedInlinkedin.com/in/kriscmonKris on Githubhttps://github.com/pappacorleoneAnthropic Blog post: "Demystifying evals for AI agents"***The capabilities that make agents useful also make them difficult to evaluate. The strategies that work across deployments combine techniques to match the complexity of the systems they measure.***https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/demystifying-evals-for-ai-agentsSundai.Club (Weekly AI Hackathons at MIT)https://www.sundai.club/HOST LINKS==========Robert MoranBoston, MALinkedIn profilehttps://www.linkedin.com/in/bobmoran/Director Audience, Community, and RevenueHowland, Gorham & Wolf ProductionsE: Robert (at) hgandw.comSTATION LINKS=============Brookline Interactive Group (BIG)46 Tappan St, Brookline, MA 02445https//brooklineinteractive.orgBIG is an integrated media and technology education center and a community media hub for Brookline, MA and the region. BIG facilitates diverse community dialogue, incubates and funds hyperlocal storytelling, arts, journalism, media literacy, and technology projects, including Virtual Reality (VR), and serves over 500 youth and adults annually through innovative classes and partnerships.BIG on Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/brooklineinteractive/The BIG Newsletter Archivehttps://us13.campaign-archive.com/home/?u=7992ace09f245d6a5d4410c3f&id=d0ba9e849c