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The Data Exchange with Ben Lorica — 364 episodes

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1

Reasoning Doesn't Start With Language

2

An Agent Is Just an LLM in a For-Loop

3

The Bloomberg Terminal for AI Compute

4

Can China Do to Robotaxis What It Did to Solar?

5

Why Video Is AI's Next Great Frontier

6

Your AI Safety Tests Are Lying to You

7

Enterprise AI Is Moving Slower Than You Think

8

Why Observability May Be AI’s Next Frontier

9

AI Is Producing More Code, but Is It Producing More Value?

10

Stop Renting Generic Intelligence for Your Business

11

The Data Layer Enterprise AI Has Been Missing

12

The Hidden Failure Modes of AI Agents

13

The Data Stack Wasn't Built for AI — Here's What Comes Next

14

The SaaSpocalypse Is Coming — But Don't Count Out the Incumbents

15

AI Agents Are Implemented, Not Adopted

16

Why Your AI Agent Isn't Ready to Ship (And How to Know When It Is)

17

Why Foundation Models Haven’t Replaced Classical Machine Learning

18

When "Garbage In, Garbage Out" Gets It Wrong

19

As Code Generation Speeds Up, Who Tests the Output?

20

The Gap Between AI Hype and Enterprise Reality

21

Reading the Tea Leaves: What the World's Top AI Researchers Are Really Working On

22

From Web Video to Real-World Robots

23

Why Your AI Committee Might Be Your Biggest AI Problem

24

Building Mathematical Superintelligence

25

Your First AI Employee Is Already Clocking In

26

Are Multi-Agent Systems More Complex Than They Need to Be?

27

Coding Agents Meet Data Science

28

World Models Are Here—But It’s Still the GPT-2 Phase

29

The Hidden Challenges of Running AI at Scale in Production

30

What No One Tells You About Staying Employable in the AI Era

31

Adaptation: The Missing Layer Between Apps and Foundation Models

32

Securing the "YOLO" Era of AI Agents

33

Building the Open Source Alternative to AWS

34

Breaking the Memory Wall in the Age of Inference

35

Is Waymo Actually Profitable? The Real Cost of the Robotaxi Revolution

36

Beyond Vibe Coding: Building Your Entire Business with AI

37

The Rise of the Machine Identity: Securing the AI Workforce and AI Agents

38

Why Traditional Observability Falls Short for AI Agents

39

Teaching AI How to Forget

40

The Humanoid Hype Cycle: Separating “Shiny Objects” from Real Utility

41

The Junior Data Engineer is Now an AI Agent

42

The Truth About Agents in Production

43

The best books we read this year 📚

44

The Developer’s Guide to LLM Security

45

Is AI a Utility? Defining Usability and Public Trust

46

How to Build AI Copilots That Teach Rather Than Automate

47

The AI Revolution Finally Comes to Structured Data

48

Building the Knowledge Layer Your Agents Need

49

How Language Models Actually Think

50

How AI Is Reshaping Jobs, Budgets, and Data Centers

51

Making Data Engineering Safe for Automation and Agents

52

Is Your Database Ready for an Army of AI Agents?

53

Beyond the Dashboard: Collaborative Analytics in Slack

54

Stop Piloting, Start Shipping: A Playbook for Measurable AI

55

Databases for Machines, Not People

56

When AI Agents Need to Talk: Inside the A2A Protocol

57

The Infrastructure for Production AI

58

How to Make Your Data Truly AI-Ready

59

Beyond the Agent Hype

60

How to Build and Optimize AI Research Agents

61

Why Digital Work is the Perfect Training Ground for AI Agents

62

Beyond the Chatbot: What Actually Works in Enterprise AI

63

Why China's Engineering Culture Gives Them an AI Advantage

64

Predictability Beats Accuracy in Enterprise AI

65

2025 AI Governance Survey

66

The Fenic Approach to Production-Ready Data Processing

67

When AI Eats the Bottom Rung of the Career Ladder

68

From NotebookLM to Audio Companions: Why Google’s AI Team Went Startup

69

The AI-Native Notebook That Thinks Like a Spreadsheet

70

How Agentic AI is Transforming Wall Street

71

The Quantum Advantage Is Real—But Where's the Infrastructure?

72

From Human-Readable to Machine-Usable: The New API Stack

73

Why Voice Security Is Your Next Big Problem

74

Unlocking Unstructured Data with LLMs

75

Building Production-Grade RAG at Scale

76

Unlocking AI Superpowers in Your Terminal

77

From Vibe Coding to Autonomous Agents

78

How a Public-Benefit Startup Plans to Make Open Source the Default for Serious AI

79

The Highly Uncertain Future of OpenAI’s Dominance

80

Beyond Guardrails: Defending LLMs Against Sophisticated Attacks

81

Navigating the Generative AI Maze in Business

82

The Practical Realities of AI Development

83

Beyond the Demo: Building AI Systems That Actually Work

84

Vibe Coding and the Rise of AI Agents: The Future of Software Development is Here

85

2025 Artificial Intelligence Index

86

How AI is Transforming Talent Development

87

Prompts as Functions: The BAML Revolution in AI Engineering

88

Building the Operating System for AI Agents

89

Bridging the AI Agent Prototype-to-Production Chasm

90

The Evolution of Reinforcement Fine-Tuning in AI

91

Beyond GPUs: Cerebras’ Wafer-Scale Engine for Lightning-Fast AI Inference

92

The Future of AI: Regulation, Foundation Models & User Experience

93

The AI Agent Rundown: 10 Things to Know Now

94

Why ‘Structure’ Is All You Need: A Deep Dive into Next-Gen AI Retrieval

95

Why Legal Hurdles Are the Biggest Barrier to AI Adoption

96

Unlocking Spreadsheet Intelligence with AI

97

Monthly Roundup: Deregulation, Hardware, and Inference Scaling

98

What AI Teams Need to Know for 2025

99

AI Unlocked: The Data Bottleneck

100

The Data-Centric Shift in AI: Challenges, Opportunities, and Tools

101

Monthly Roundup: Semiconductors, Frontier Models, and Practical Innovations

102

Breaking the Cloud Barrier: How DBOS Transforms Application Development

103

The Essential Guide to AI Guardrails

104

Beyond ETL: How Snow Leopard Connects AI, Agents, and Live Data

105

2024 Generative AI in Healthcare Survey Results

106

Monthly Roundup: BAML, Tencent’s Hunyuan Model, AI & Kubernetes, and the Future of Voice AI

107

Building the Future of Finance: Inside AI Valuation Bots

108

Unleashing the Power of BAML in LLM Applications

109

Cracking the Code: How Enterprises Are Adopting Generative AI

110

Monthly Roundup: Ray Compiled Graphs, Llama 3.2 and Multimodal AI, and Structured Data for RAG

111

Reimagining Code: The AI-Driven Transformation of Programming and Data Analytics

112

The Security Debate: How Safe is Open-Source Software?

113

Generative AI in Voice Technology

114

Building An Experiment Tracker for Foundation Model Training

115

Monthly Roundup: AI Regulations, GenAI for Analysts, Inference Services, and Military Applications

116

Unlocking the Power of LLMs with Data Prep Kit

117

Advancing AI: Scaling, Data, Agents, Testing, and Ethical Considerations

118

Bridging the Hardware-Software Divide in AI

119

Monthly Roundup: The Economic Realities of Large Language Models

120

From Hype to Reality: The Current State of Enterprise Generative AI Adoption

121

Automating Unstructured Data Extraction with LLMs

122

Generative AI in Context: Hybrid Intelligence and Responsible Development

123

Monthly Roundup: Navigating the Peaks and Valleys of Generative AI Technology

124

From Preparation to Recovery: Mastering AI Incident Response

125

Unlocking the Power of Unstructured Data

126

Postgres: The Swiss Army Knife of Databases

127

Supercharging AI with Graphs

128

Monthly Roundup: SB 1047, GraphRAG, and AI Avatars in the Workplace

129

Fine-tuning and Preference Alignment in a Single Streamlined Process

130

TinyML, Sensor-Driven AI, and Advances in Large Language Models

131

Machine Unlearning: Techniques, Challenges, and Future Directions

132

Unleashing the Power of AI Agents

133

Monthly Roundup: Llama 3, Agents, Evaluation Metrics, Cyc, TikTok, and more

134

LLMs for Data Access: Unlocking Insights with Text-to-SQL

135

2024 Artificial Intelligence Index

136

DBRX and the Future of Open LLMs

137

Monthly Roundup: New LLMs, GTC 2024, Constraint-Driven Innovation, Model Safety, and GraphRAG

138

Automating Software Upgrades: How to Combine AI and Expert Developers

139

Generative AI in the Industrial Sphere

140

The Intersection of LLMs, Knowledge Graphs, and Query Generation

141

Unlocking the Potential of Private Data Collaboration

142

Frontiers of AI: From Text-to-Video Models to Knowledge Graphs

143

Adaptive, Specialized, and Accessible: Where AI Systems Are Heading Next

144

2024 Themes and Trends in AI

145

The AI Infrastructure Revolution: From Cloud Computing to Data Center Design

146

AI in Depth: Transforming Transportation, Enterprise, and Policy

147

Software Meets Hardware: Enabling AMD for Large Language Models

148

Incentives are Superpowers: Mastering Motivation in the AI Era

149

Synthetic Futures: The Convergence of Biology and AI

150

AI Co-Pilots in Action: Transforming Function Calling in Cybersecurity

151

Leveling Up: Tools and Techniques to Make AI Development More Accessible

152

LLMs on CPUs, Period

153

Democratizing Wealth Management With AI

154

Knowledge Graphs: Contextualizing Enterprise Data for More Accurate LLMs

155

TimeGPT: Machine Learning for Time Series, Made Accessible

156

Best Practices for Building LLM-Backed Applications

157

The Evolution of Crypto, Blockchain, and Web3

158

Open Source Data and AI: Past, Present, Future

159

Orchestration for LLM and RAG applications

160

Reflections from the First AI Conference in San Francisco

161

Kùzu: A simple, extremely fast, and embeddable graph database

162

Navigating the Nuances of Retrieval Augmented Generation

163

The Rise of Generative AI-Powered Social Media Manipulation

164

Versioning and MLOps for Generative AI

165

Navigating the Generative AI Landscape

166

Trends in Data Management: From Source to BI and Generative AI

167

AI and the Future of Speech Technologies

168

The Future of Cybersecurity: Generative AI and its Implications

169

Ivy: The One-Stop Interface for AI Model Deployment and Development

170

Navigating the Risk Landscape: A Deep Dive into Generative AI

171

Software Development with AI and LLMs

172

A Lightweight SDK for Integrating AI Models and Plugins

173

Using LLMs to Build AI Co-pilots for Knowledge Workers

174

ETL for LLMs

175

The Future of Graph Databases

176

Delivering Safe and Effective LLM and NLP Applications

177

Using Data and AI to Democratize Entity Resolution and Master Data Management

178

An Open Source Data Framework for LLMs

179

Redefining AI Infrastructure: Deploying and Developing with a Next-Generation Developer Platform

180

The Rise of Custom Foundation Models

181

The Future of Vector Databases and the Rise of Instant Updates

182

LLMs Are the Key to Unlocking the Next Generation of Search

183

Building and Deploying Foundation Models for Enterprises

184

Building Robust AI Infrastructure for Critical Solutions

185

Machine Learning for High-Risk Applications

186

Boosting Perception With Synthetic Data

187

Revolutionizing B2B: Unleashing the Power of AI and Data

188

AI Metadata

189

The 2023 AI Index

190

Custom Foundation Models

191

Uncovering and Highlighting AI Trends

192

How Data and AI Happened

193

Blazing fast bulk data transfers between any cloud

194

Exhaustion of High-Quality Data Could Slow Down AI Progress in Coming Decades

195

Generating high-fidelity and privacy-preserving synthetic data

196

How technology is disrupting the venture capital industry

197

Running Machine Learning Workloads On Any Cloud

198

2023 Trends in Data Engineering and Infrastructure

199

Preparing for the Implementation of the EU AI Act and Other AI Regulations

200

The Open Source Stack Unleashing a Game-Changing AI Hardware Shift

201

Data Science and AI in Context

202

Evaluating Language Models

203

2023 Opportunities and Trends: Data, Machine Learning, and AI

204

Exploring DALL·E 2

205

Data Science at Shopify and Stitch Fix

206

Building a data management system for unstructured data

207

A Cloud Native Vector Database Management System

208

What’s Next for Machine Learning in Time Series

209

Efficient Methods for Natural Language Processing

210

Responsible and Trustworthy AI

211

Building a premier industrial AI research and product group

212

An open source, production grade vector search engine

213

A comprehensive suite of open source tools for time series modeling

214

Building Safe and Reliable AI applications

215

A new storage engine for vectors

216

Project Lightspeed: Next-generation Spark Streaming

217

The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Speech Data

218

Machine Learning Integrity

219

Synthetic data technologies can enable more capable and ethical AI

220

Confidential Computing for Machine Learning

221

Applied NLP Research at Primer

222

Using SQL to Retrieve Data from APIs and Web Services

223

Machine Learning for Time Series Intelligence

224

Unleashing the power of large language models

225

Building production-ready machine learning pipelines

226

Machine Learning at Gong

227

Data Infrastructure for Computer Vision

228

How DALL·E works

229

Scalable, end-to-end machine learning, for everyone

230

Orchestration and Pipelines for Data Scientists

231

Dataframes at scale

232

Software-Defined Assets

233

Adversarial Machine Learning

234

Orchestrating Machine Learning Applications

235

Narrative AI

236

Machine Learning Model Observability

237

Dataflow Automation

238

Practical Machine Learning and Deep learning

239

Machine Learning for Optimization

240

Efficient Scaling of Language Models

241

Data Science at Stitch Fix

242

The 2022 AI Index

243

Why You Need A Time-Series Database

244

Data Science at Shopify

245

An AI Risk Management Framework

246

An open source and end-to-end library for causal inference

247

The Graph Intelligence Stack

248

NLP and Language Models in Healthcare and the Life Sciences

249

Delivering Continuous Intelligence at Scale

250

Imperceptible NLP Attacks

251

Evolving Data Science Training Programs

252

Building Machine Learning Infrastructure at Netflix and beyond

253

Democratizing NLP

254

Machine Learning at Discord

255

Applications of Knowledge Graphs

256

Key AI and Data Trends for 2022

257

Large Language Models

258

Data and Machine Learning Platforms at Shopify

259

What is AI Engineering?

260

NLP and AI in Financial Services

261

Modern Experimentation Platforms

262

Reinforcement Learning in Real-World Applications

263

MLOps Anti-Patterns

264

Why You Need a Modern Metadata Platform

265

Making Large Language Models Smarter

266

AI Begins With Data Quality

267

Modernizing Data Integration

268

Deploying Machine Learning Models Safely and Systematically

269

Large-scale machine learning and AI on multi-modal data

270

Machine Learning in Astronomy and Physics

271

The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Multiple Dispatch

272

How To Lead In Data Science

273

Why interest in graph databases and graph analytics are growing

274

The State of Data Journalism

275

Auditing machine learning models for discrimination, bias, and other risks

276

An oscilloscope for deep learning

277

What’s new in data engineering

278

The evolution of the data science role and of data science tools

279

Data Augmentation in Natural Language Processing

280

Storage Technologies for a Multi-cloud World

281

Building a next-generation dataflow orchestration and automation system

282

Building a flexible, intuitive, and fast forecasting library

283

Neural Models for Tabular Data

284

Training and Sharing Large Language Models

285

Questioning the Efficacy of Neural Recommendation Systems

286

Automation in Data Management and Data Labeling

287

Reinforcement Learning For the Win

288

How Companies Are Investing in AI Risk and Liability Minimization

289

The Future of Machine Learning Lies in Better Abstractions

290

Why You Should Optimize Your Deep Learning Inference Platform

291

AI Beyond Automation

292

Injecting Software Engineering Practices and Rigor into Data Governance

293

Building a data store for unstructured data and deep learning applications

294

How Technology Companies Are Using Ray

295

Data quality is key to great AI products and services

296

Machine Learning in Healthcare

297

Measuring the Impact of AI and Machine Learning Research

298

The Mathematics of Data Integration and Data Quality

299

Pricing Data Products

300

Challenges, Opportunities, and Trends in EdTech

301

Towards Simple, Interpretable, and Trustworthy AI

302

The Rise of Metadata Management Systems

303

Tools for building robust, state-of-the-art machine learning models

304

Creating Master Data at Scale with AI

305

Bringing AI and computing closer to data sources

306

Deep Learning in the Sciences

307

Taking business intelligence and analyst tools to the next level

308

Data exchanges and their applications in healthcare and the life sciences

309

Key AI and Data Trends for 2021

310

A Unified Management Model for Successful Data-Focused Teams

311

Security and privacy for the disoriented

312

The State of Responsible AI

313

Improving the robustness of natural language applications

314

End-to-end deep learning models for speech applications

315

Securing machine learning applications

316

Testing Natural Language Models

317

Detecting Fake News

318

The Computational Limits of Deep Learning

319

Making deep learning accessible

320

Building and deploying knowledge graphs

321

Financial Time Series Forecasting with Deep Learning

322

A programming language for scientific machine learning and differentiable programming

323

Using machine learning to modernize medical triage and monitoring systems

324

Connecting Reinforcement Learning to Simulation Software

325

Using machine learning to detect shifts in government policy

326

What is AI Assurance?

327

Best practices for building conversational AI applications

328

Tools for scaling machine learning

329

From Python beginner to seasoned software engineer

330

Assessing Models and Simulations of Epidemic Infectious Diseases

331

Improving the hiring pipeline for software engineers

332

How to build state-of-the-art chatbots

333

Democratizing machine learning

334

How graph technologies are being used to solve complex business problems

335

Machines for unlocking the deluge of COVID-19 papers, articles, and conversations

336

Designing machine learning models for both consumer and industrial applications

337

Building open source developer tools for language applications

338

Viewing machine learning and data science applications as sociotechnical systems

339

Identifying and mitigating liabilities and risks associated with AI

340

How machine learning is being used in quantitative finance

341

Understanding machine learning model governance

342

Improving performance and scalability of data science libraries

343

Why TinyML will be huge

344

An open source platform for training deep learning models

345

Algorithms that continually invent both problems and solutions

346

Computational Models and Simulations of Epidemic Infectious Diseases

347

Human-in-the-loop machine learning

348

Next-generation simulation software will incorporate deep reinforcement learning

349

Business at the speed of AI: Lessons from Shopify

350

How deep learning is being used in search and information retrieval

351

The responsible development, deployment and operation of machine learning systems

352

Hyperscaling natural language processing

353

What businesses need to know about model explainability

354

Scalable Machine Learning, Scalable Python, For Everyone

355

Computational humanness, analogy and innovation, and soft concepts

356

Building domain specific natural language applications

357

The state of privacy-preserving machine learning

358

Taking messaging and data ingestion systems to the next level

359

Business at the speed of AI: Lessons from Rakuten

360

The combination of the right software and commodity hardware will prove capable of handling most machine learning tasks

361

Key AI and Data Trends for 2020

362

The evolution of TensorFlow and of machine learning infrastructure

363

Building large-scale, real-time computer vision applications

364

Taking stock of foundational tools for analytics and machine learning