Humans of AI

<p>In the race to build AI, we forget that it was made by real people, with real stories. These are their stories.</p><p>Inspired by the photoblog "Humans of New York", this series is a video podcast showcasing the different people who are either building things in AI or are using it in their daily lives.</p><p>If you think you would make a good guest or want to sponsor the podcast, send me a note at <a href="mailto:alex@humansofai.xyz">alex@humansofai.xyz</a></p>

Jeremy Toeman: Empowering Creators To Make Compelling Videos with AI

Jeremy Toeman is the founder of AugXLabs, an AI video technology startup, helping creators make compelling videos at a fraction of the time & effort. Jeremy's had a storied career in the media industry leading product and innovation at places like WarnerMedia, CBS Interactive and more and is now directing his energies towards building a new venture in the era of generative AI.Check out AugXLabs and make your very first Augie! http://www.augxlabs.com/?via=alex And use promo code AUGIE1MONTH for 1 month free of premium Augie!If you would like to be a guest or sponsor the podcast, send me a note at alex@humansofai.xyzAnd follow me on other platforms so youā€™ll never miss out on my updates!šŸ’Œ Sign up for my free AI newsletter Chaos Theory: https://alexchao.substack.com/subscribešŸ¦ Follow me on Twitter https://twitter.com/alexchaomanderšŸ“· And Instagram! https://www.instagram.com/alexchaomander/šŸŽ„ And TikTok! https://www.tiktok.com/@alexchaomanderšŸ‘„ Connect with me on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexchao56/

02-17
48:38

Charles Packer: Giving AI Infinite Memory with MemGPT

Charles Packer is a current 5th-year PhD student at UC Berkeley and author of MemGPT an open-source project teaching large language models to manage their own memory for unbounded context! Charles is also a core member of the Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research (BAIR) Lab and Real-Time Intelligent Secure Explainable Systems (RISE) Lab where his work has spanned reinforcement learning and autonomous driving.Check out MemGPT and join their Discord community! https://memgpt.ai/And Charles's personal website: https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cpacker/If you would like to be a guest or sponsor the podcast, send me a note at alex@humansofai.xyzAnd follow me on other platforms so youā€™ll never miss out on my updates!šŸ’Œ Sign up for my free AI newsletter Chaos Theory: https://alexchao.substack.com/subscribešŸ¦ Follow me on Twitter https://twitter.com/alexchaomanderšŸ“· And Instagram! https://www.instagram.com/alexchaomander/šŸŽ„ And TikTok! https://www.tiktok.com/@alexchaomanderšŸ‘„ Connect with me on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexchao56/

11-06
31:06

Amanda Bickerstaffi: How AI is Transforming the Classroom

Amanda Bickerstaff is the co-founder and CEO of AI for Education, an organization aiming to help teachers and schools unlock their full potential through AI by providing workshops, trainings, tools and resources to educators and policymakers.Find Amanda on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amanda-bickerstaff-edu/If you would like to be a guest or sponsor the podcast, send me a note at alex@humansofai.xyzAnd follow me on other platforms so youā€™ll never miss out on my updates!šŸ’Œ Sign up for my free AI newsletter Chaos Theory: https://alexchao.substack.com/subscribešŸ¦ Follow me on Twitter https://twitter.com/alexchaomanderšŸ“· And Instagram! https://www.instagram.com/alexchaomander/šŸŽ„ And TikTok! https://www.tiktok.com/@alexchaomanderšŸ‘„ Connect with me on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexchao56/

10-30
35:27

Sudip Chakrabarti: The opportunities to build open-source enterprise AI startups

Sudip Chakrabarti is an early-stage investor and partner at Decibel where he focuses on enterprise and infrastructure companies. Before becoming an investor, Sudip was an entrepreneur and an engineer, starting his first company when he was at Georgia Tech, and his second while in business school at Wharton. He's been in venture ever-since with a particular focus on enterprise and open-source companies.Find Sudip on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sudipchakrabartiIf you would like to be a guest or sponsor the podcast, send me a note at alex@humansofai.xyzAnd follow me on other platforms so youā€™ll never miss out on my updates!šŸ’Œ Sign up for my free AI newsletter Chaos Theory: https://alexchao.substack.com/subscribešŸ¦ Follow me on Twitter https://twitter.com/alexchaomanderšŸ“· And Instagram! https://www.instagram.com/alexchaomander/šŸŽ„ And TikTok! https://www.tiktok.com/@alexchaomanderšŸ‘„ Connect with me on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexchao56/

10-23
35:36

Josh Fechter: Creating AI Story Writers for Books and Screenplays

Josh Fechter is the CEO and founder of Squibler, a startup seeking to be your AI Copywriter and Storyteller. Josh is a growth hacking expert, a builder of communities and has written several books on software tech writing and copywriting for personal brands.Find Josh on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshua-fechter/And check out Squibler: https://www.squibler.io/If you would like to be a guest or sponsor the podcast, send me a note at alex@humansofai.xyzAnd follow me on other platforms so youā€™ll never miss out on my updates!šŸ’Œ Sign up for my free AI newsletter Chaos Theory: https://alexchao.substack.com/subscribešŸ¦ Follow me on Twitter https://twitter.com/alexchaomanderšŸ“· And Instagram! https://www.instagram.com/alexchaomander/šŸŽ„ And TikTok! https://www.tiktok.com/@alexchaomanderšŸ‘„ Connect with me on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexchao56/

09-17
32:35

Aayush Mudgal: Building Modern Recommendation Systems with the latest AI

Aayush Mudgal is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Pinterest, currently leading the efforts around Privacy Aware Conversion Modelling.Ayush has expertise in large-scale recommendation systems, personalization, and ads marketplaces. and in the past has conducted research on intelligent tutoring systems, developing data-driven feedback to aid students in learning computer programming. Find Aayush on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aayushmudgal/And for the books that Aayush recommends:Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams (https://amzn.to/48cVdmn)How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big (https://amzn.to/3P5AUOG)An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management (https://amzn.to/3Z91kUA)If you would like to be a guest or sponsor the podcast, send me a note at alex@humansofai.xyzAnd follow me on other platforms so youā€™ll never miss out on my updates!šŸ’Œ Sign up for my free AI newsletter Chaos Theory: https://alexchao.substack.com/subscribešŸ¦ Follow me on Twitter https://twitter.com/alexchaomanderšŸ§µ And Threads! https://www.threads.net/@alexchaomanderšŸ‘„ Connect with me on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexchao56/

09-09
39:34

Adam Steinle: Reimagining Medical Records with Generative AI

Adam Steinle is the cofounder and CEO of hona.ai. Adam started out as a biomedical engineer, and after stints at Goldman Sachs and Facebook, he returned to his roots to help medical systems communicate so that providers can learn about their patients more effectively.Find Adam on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamsteinle/And on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@adam_steinleAnd to read more about Hona AI check out their website: https://www.hona.ai/For the YouTube channel that Adam recommends: https://www.youtube.com/@jayhoovyIf you would like to be a guest or sponsor the podcast, send me a note at alex@humansofai.xyzAnd follow me on other platforms so youā€™ll never miss out on my updates!šŸ’Œ Sign up for my free AI newsletter Chaos Theory: https://alexchao.substack.com/subscribešŸ¦ Follow me on Twitter https://twitter.com/alexchaomanderšŸ§µ And Threads! https://www.threads.net/@alexchaomanderšŸ‘„ Connect with me on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexchao56/

08-28
51:03

Shishir Patil: Teaching AI to Use APIs with Gorilla LLM

Shishir Patil is currently a 5th year PhD student at UC Berkeley and inventor of the large language model called Gorilla. Shishir's work broadly covers ML-Systems, LLMs, Edge-ML, and Sky computing.Find Shishir on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shishir-patil/And on Twitter: https://twitter.com/shishirpatil_To read more about Gorilla, check out the project page: https://gorilla.cs.berkeley.edu/For the book that Shishir recommends: The Life of an Economist: An Autobiography (https://amzn.to/3EpscWV)If you would like to be a guest or sponsor the podcast, send me a note at alex@humansofai.xyzAnd follow me on other platforms so youā€™ll never miss out on my updates!šŸ’Œ Sign up for my free AI newsletter Chaos Theory: https://alexchao.substack.com/subscribešŸ¦ Follow me on Twitter https://twitter.com/alexchaomanderšŸ§µ And Threads! https://www.threads.net/@alexchaomanderšŸ‘„ Connect with me on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexchao56/

08-22
48:14

Chun Jiang: Pursuing Design in AI

Chun Jiang is the founder of Monterey AI, an AI startup looking to be your copilot for product insights. Coming from a background of urban design and architecture, Chun has built design-centric AI products across industries like self-driving cars and geospatial data platforms.Find Chun on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chunonlineAnd on Twitter: https://twitter.com/chunonlineFor the book that Chun recommends:Exhalation by Ted Chiang (https://amzn.to/3rUI14z)And the movies:Isle of Dogs (https://m.imdb.com/title/tt5104604/)Dune (https://m.imdb.com/title/tt1160419/)If you would like to be a guest or sponsor the podcast, send me a note at alex@humansofai.xyzAnd follow me on other platforms so youā€™ll never miss out on my updates!šŸ’Œ Sign up for my free AI newsletter Chaos Theory: https://alexchao.substack.com/subscribešŸ¦ Follow me on Twitter https://twitter.com/alexchaomanderšŸ§µ And Threads! https://www.threads.net/@alexchaomanderšŸ‘„ Connect with me on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexchao56/

07-29
40:03

Tara Walker: Blending Math and Music to Building Vector Databases

Tara Walker, a principal software engineer, currently working on open-source and vector databases in Microsoft's Developer Division. Passionate about building software at scale and the intersection of AI and robotics, Tara has served as a tech evangelist and mentor for underrepresented minorities and the next generation of computer scientists.Find Tara on LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/taraewalker/And on Discord at: tawalkeIf you would like to be a guest or sponsor the podcast, send me a note at alex@humansofai.xyzAnd follow me on other platforms so youā€™ll never miss out on my updates!šŸ’Œ Sign up for my free AI newsletter Chaos Theory: https://alexchao.substack.com/subscribešŸ¦ Follow me on Twitter https://twitter.com/alexchaomanderšŸ§µ And Threads! https://www.threads.net/@alexchaomanderšŸ‘„ Connect with me on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexchao56/

07-22
44:25

Evan Mays: From Iron Man and Halo to Hackathon Winner and AI Founder

Evan Mays is the founder of Rootbeer Computer, where he is building Zero, a prototyping tool for generating mock data.Previously, he worked as a software engineer at Meta, where he built products to help content creators make a living.Find Evan on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/evanon0pingAnd see the submission that won the Scale AI hackathon from Evan and his teammates: https://github.com/RootbeerComputer/backend-GPTFor the book that Evan recommends - Three Body Problem (https://amzn.to/44JA5RY)If you would like to be a guest or sponsor the podcast, send me a note at alex@humansofai.xyzAnd follow me on other platforms so youā€™ll never miss out on my updates!šŸ’Œ Sign up for my free AI newsletter Chaos Theory: https://alexchao.substack.com/subscribešŸ¦ Follow me on Twitter https://twitter.com/alexchaomanderšŸ§µ And Threads! https://www.threads.net/@alexchaomanderšŸ‘„ Connect with me on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexchao56/

07-16
45:25

Meryem Arik: Building Cheaper Large Language Models

Meryem Arik, an Oxford-trained physicist, is the co-founder of TitanML, working to significantly simplifies the deployment of large language models. Outside her professional life, Meryem dedicates her time to mentoring underrepresented groups in STEM and watching Rugby.Check out Meryem's startup TitanML: https://www.titanml.co/Meryem's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/meryemarik/For the books that Meryem recommends:- Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones (https://amzn.to/3NKDysD)- Thinking Fast and Slow (https://amzn.to/3D5DKxw)And for the book I recommend:- Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (https://amzn.to/3NNI0a6)If you would like to be a guest or sponsor the podcast, send me a note at alex@humansofai.xyzAnd follow me on other platforms so youā€™ll never miss out on my updates! šŸ’Œ Sign up for my free AI newsletter Chaos Theory: https://alexchao.substack.com/subscribešŸ¦ Follow me on Twitter https://twitter.com/alexchaomanderšŸ§µ And Threads! https://www.threads.net/@alexchaomanderšŸ‘„ Connect with me on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexchao56/

07-12
41:46

Govind Kamtamneni: Solving the toughest problems in enterprises with Microsoft's Copilot stack

Govind Kamtamneni is deeply passionate about the transformative potential of technologies that are at the frontier when they're rapidly adopted and experimented with. He currently works with strategic customers in the Azure Global Black Team, helping to drive clarity on the capabilities of Microsoft's Copilot and cloud-native stack. He is now fostering the wider adoption of AI for intelligent apps, the capabilities of which are used to address real-world use cases.Project Miyagi: Azure-Samples/miyagi: Sample to envision intelligent apps with Microsoft's Copilot stack for AI-infused product experiences. (https://github.com/Azure-Samples/miyagi)Govind's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thegovind/And Twitter: https://twitter.com/t2govindIf you would like to be a guest or sponsor the podcast, send me a note at alex@humansofai.xyzAnd follow me on other platforms so youā€™ll never miss out on my updates!šŸ’Œ Sign up for my free AI newsletter Chaos Theory: https://alexchao.substack.com/subscribešŸ¦ Follow me on Twitter https://twitter.com/alexchaomanderšŸ§µ And Threads! https://www.threads.net/@alexchaomanderšŸ‘„ Connect with me on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexchao56/

07-07
48:54

Cassandra Ansara: Safeguarding against Prompt Injection

Cassandra Ansara, known as MadameArchitect on Discord, is the founder of AI Empower and is a highly skilled IT Solutions Architect who also focuses on ethical AI practices.AI Empower: https://aiempower.org/cassandra-ansara/Cassandra's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cassandraansara/If you would like to be a guest, send me a note at alex@humansofai.xyzAnd follow me on other platforms so youā€™ll never miss out on my updates!šŸ’Œ Sign up for my free AI newsletter Chaos Theory: https://alexchao.substack.com/subscribešŸ¦ Follow me on Twitter https://twitter.com/alexchaomanderšŸ‘„ Connect with me on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexchao56/

07-01
24:39

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