Case studies from the GenAI frontier, scaling ML teams, from biologist to machine learning consultant- Erik Gafni - The Data Scientist Show #082
Description
Erik Gafni builds AI systems and teams. He founded Eventum AI (https://bit.ly/eventum-ai), an ML consulting company working with high-growth startups. We talked about GenAI projects he worked on, how he built production ML systems, how to scale ML teams, and his journey from biologist to ML researcher.
- Interested in working with Erik: https://bit.ly/erik-consulting
- Erik's LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/erik-gafni-LI
(00:00:00 ) Introduction
(00:01:59 ) Is GenAI overhyped?
(00:04:28 ) Ascent translation with AI
(00:11:58 ) Social media app with AI
(00:14:00 ) Stable diffusion model evaluation
(00:15:57 ) "Consult-to-hire" model
(00:17:35 ) AI in biotech
(00:22:46 ) Self-supervised learning
(00:31:22 ) How he hires people
(00:33:19 ) Research vs production
(00:35:57 ) Is AGI coming?
(00:37:30 ) New trends in GenAI
(00:41:45 ) Data quality in GenAI
(00:42:58 ) Philosophy in LLMs
(00:49:48 ) OpenAI vs Open Source
(00:53:58 ) Mistakes he made
(00:57:41 ) How did he get into ML
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