The Data Exchange with Ben Lorica

A series of informal conversations with thought leaders, researchers, practitioners, and writers on a wide range of topics in technology, science, and of course big data, data science, artificial intelligence, and related applications. Anchored by Ben Lorica (@BigData), the Data Exchange also features a roundup of the most important stories from the worlds of data, machine learning and AI. Detailed show notes for each episode can be found on https://thedataexchange.media/ The Data Exchange podcast is a production of Gradient Flow [https://gradientflow.com/].

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

This is our monthly conversation on topics in AI and Technology with Paco Nathan, the founder of Derwen, a boutique consultancy focused on Data and AI.Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter: https://gradientflow.substack.com/Subscribe: Apple • Spotify • Overcast • Pocket Casts • AntennaPod • Podcast Addict • Amazon • RSS.Detailed show notes - with links to many references - can be found on The Data Exchange web site.

11-21
49:22

Building the Future of Finance: Inside AI Valuation Bots

Vasant Dhar is a Professor at the Stern School of Business and the Center for Data Science at NYU. He’s one of the creators of the Damodaran Bot, an AI-powered system designed to emulate the valuation analysis and investment insights of renowned finance professor Aswath Damodaran. This episode explores the transformative impact of AI in finance, covering applications such as generative AI, AI-powered valuation bots, systematic investing, and narrative analysis. It delves into the development ...

11-14
37:45

Unleashing the Power of BAML in LLM Applications

Vaibhav Gupta is the CEO and co-founder of Boundary. In this episode, we explore BAML, an open source domain-specific language designed to streamline interactions with large language models (LLMs). Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter: https://gradientflow.substack.com/Subscribe: Apple • Spotify • Overcast • Pocket Casts • AntennaPod • Podcast Addict • Amazon • RSS.Detailed show notes - with links to many references - can be found on The Data Exchange web site.

11-07
45:45

Cracking the Code: How Enterprises Are Adopting Generative AI

In this conversation with Tim Persons, AI Leader at PwC, we explore the current landscape of generative AI adoption, examining how enterprises are navigating budget trends, moving from experimentation to full-scale deployment, and addressing cultural challenges along the way.Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter: https://gradientflow.substack.com/Subscribe: Apple • Spotify • Overcast • Pocket Casts • AntennaPod • Podcast Addict • Amazon • RSS.Detailed show notes - with links t...

10-31
30:09

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

This is our monthly conversation on topics in AI and Technology with Paco Nathan, the founder of Derwen, a boutique consultancy focused on Data and AI.Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter: https://gradientflow.substack.com/Subscribe: Apple • Spotify • Overcast • Pocket Casts • AntennaPod • Podcast Addict • Amazon • RSS.Detailed show notes - with links to many references - can be found on The Data Exchange web site.

10-24
52:57

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

Matt Welsh is a technical leader at Aryn AI, an AI-powered ETL system for RAG frameworks, LLM-based applications, and vector databases. In this episode, we explore how AI is revolutionizing programming and software development. Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter: https://gradientflow.substack.com/Subscribe: Apple • Spotify • Overcast • Pocket Casts • AntennaPod • Podcast Addict • Amazon • RSS.Detailed show notes - with links to many references - can be found on The Dat...

10-17
41:05

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

Mars Lan, Co-Founder & CTO at Metaphor1, an AI-powered social platform that enhances data governance by empowering all employees, not just data teams, to easily collaborate, search, and share insights through an intuitive, AI-driven interface. Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter: https://gradientflow.substack.com/Subscribe: Apple • Spotify • Overcast • Pocket Casts • AntennaPod • Podcast Addict • Amazon • RSS.Detailed show notes - with links to many references - can...

10-10
51:06

Generative AI in Voice Technology

Yishay Carmiel is the CEO of Meaning, a startup building real-time generative AI systems focused on voice applications.Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter: https://gradientflow.substack.com/Subscribe: Apple • Spotify • Overcast • Pocket Casts • AntennaPod • Podcast Addict • Amazon • RSS.Detailed show notes - with links to many references - can be found on The Data Exchange web site.

10-03
59:41

Building An Experiment Tracker for Foundation Model Training

Aurimas Griciūnas is the Chief Product Officer of Neptune.AI, a startup building experiment tracking tools for foundation model training. Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter: https://gradientflow.substack.com/Subscribe: Apple • Spotify • Overcast • Pocket Casts • AntennaPod • Podcast Addict • Amazon • RSS.Detailed show notes - with links to many references - can be found on The Data Exchange web site.

09-26
37:56

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

This is our monthly conversation on topics in AI and Technology with Paco Nathan, the founder of Derwen, a boutique consultancy focused on Data and AI.Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter: https://gradientflow.substack.com/Subscribe: Apple • Spotify • Overcast • Pocket Casts • AntennaPod • Podcast Addict • Amazon • RSS.Detailed show notes - with links to many references - can be found on The Data Exchange web site.

09-19
45:49

Unlocking the Power of LLMs with Data Prep Kit

Petros Zerfos and Hima Patel of IBM Research are part of the team behind Data Prep Kit, an open-source toolkit that helps process and prepare raw text and code data at scale for use in large language model applications.Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter: https://gradientflow.substack.com/Subscribe: Apple • Spotify • Overcast • Pocket Casts • AntennaPod • Podcast Addict • Amazon • RSS.Detailed show notes - with links to many references - can be found on The Data Exchange web...

09-12
38:15

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

Dr. Andrew Ng is a globally recognized AI leader, founder of DeepLearning.AI and Landing AI, General Partner at AI Fund, Chairman and Co-Founder of Coursera, and Adjunct Professor at Stanford University. Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter: https://gradientflow.substack.com/Subscribe: Apple • Spotify • Overcast • Pocket Casts • AntennaPod • Podcast Addict • Amazon • RSS.Detailed show notes - with links to many references - can be found on The Data Exchange web site.

09-05
24:37

Bridging the Hardware-Software Divide in AI

Jay Dawani is CEO and founder of Lemurian Labs, a pioneering startup building a software stack for developing advanced AI systems, focusing on pushing the boundaries of computational capabilities and model performance.Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter: https://gradientflow.substack.com/Subscribe: Apple • Spotify • Overcast • Pocket Casts • AntennaPod • Podcast Addict • Amazon • RSS.Detailed show notes - with links to many references - can be found on The Data Exchange web ...

08-29
48:27

Monthly Roundup: The Economic Realities of Large Language Models

This is our monthly conversation on topics in AI and Technology with Paco Nathan, the founder of Derwen, a boutique consultancy focused on Data and AI.Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter: https://gradientflow.substack.com/Subscribe: Apple • Spotify • Overcast • Pocket Casts • AntennaPod • Podcast Addict • Amazon • RSS.Detailed show notes - with links to many references - can be found on The Data Exchange web site.

08-22
43:31

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

Evangelos Simoudis is Managing Director at Synapse Partners, a firm that assists corporations in implementing AI solutions, and invests in startups developing applications that exploit data using AI.Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter: https://gradientflow.substack.com/Subscribe: Apple • Spotify • Overcast • Pocket Casts • AntennaPod • Podcast Addict • Amazon • RSS.Detailed show notes - with links to many references - can be found on The Data Exchange web site.

08-15
44:53

Automating Unstructured Data Extraction with LLMs

Shuveb Hussain is co-founder of Unstract, a no-code platform that uses large language models to extract structured data from unstructured documents, allowing users to build API endpoints and ETL pipelines to automate document processing workflows. Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter: https://gradientflow.substack.com/Subscribe: Apple • Spotify • Overcast • Pocket Casts • AntennaPod • Podcast Addict • Amazon • RSS.Detailed show notes - with links to many references - can...

08-08
35:29

Generative AI in Context: Hybrid Intelligence and Responsible Development

Alfred Spector’s distinguished career includes groundbreaking work in networked computing systems and leadership roles in research at IBM, Google, and Two Sigma Investments. He is currently a visiting scholar at MIT.Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter: https://gradientflow.substack.com/Subscribe: Apple • Spotify • Overcast • Pocket Casts • AntennaPod • Podcast Addict • Amazon • RSS.Detailed show notes - with links to many references - can be found on The Data Exchange web site.

08-01
36:04

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

This is our monthly conversation on trending topics in AI and Technology with Paco Nathan, the founder of Derwen, a boutique consultancy focused on Data and AI.Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter: https://gradientflow.substack.com/Subscribe: Apple • Spotify • Overcast • Pocket Casts • AntennaPod • Podcast Addict • Amazon • RSS.Detailed show notes - with links to many references - can be found on The Data Exchange web site.

07-25
46:18

From Preparation to Recovery: Mastering AI Incident Response

Andrew Burt is co-founder of both Luminos.Law and Luminos.ai, entities building tools to help companies mitigate and manage AI risks. We dive into the critical topic of AI incident response, highlighting its unique challenges compared to traditional software incidents.Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter: https://gradientflow.substack.com/Subscribe: Apple • Spotify • Overcast • Pocket Casts • AntennaPod • Podcast Addict • Amazon • RSS.Detailed show notes can be found on The D...

07-18
34:38

Unlocking the Power of Unstructured Data

Chang She is CEO and co-founder of LanceDB, an open-source database designed for multimodal AI applications, offering scalable vector search, streaming training data, and interactive exploration of large AI datasets. In this episode we discuss Lance, an open-source columnar data format that tackles the unique challenges posed by modern AI and machine learning workloads.Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter: https://gradientflow.substack.com/Subscribe: Apple • Spotify • Overcast • Po...

07-11
49:32

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