In this episode of Building With AI, host Haroon Choudery is joined by Logan Kilpatrick, who leads developer relations at OpenAI. After a year at the frontier of AI development, Logan digs into an important question: How do you empower developers to build with GenAI?

During the conversation, they discuss:

• Crafting robust and reliable AI systems,
• The trade-off between creativity and control,
• The role of OpenAI in the developer ecosystem,
• Opportunities & risks for AI developers,
• Best practices for AI product builders,
• And much more!

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[00:00 ] Up next: Logan from OpenAI

[00:28 ] Episode introduction

[01:04 ] Autoblocks: AI Optimization Platform

[01:56 ] Logan’s Introduction

[03:26 ] Challenges in AI development

[06:50 ] Trade-off between control and creativity

[09:51 ] Improving developer experience with OpenAI

[11:51 ] OpenAI’s vision for the future

[12:34 ] Opportunities and risks for AI developers

[15:01 ] Industry best practices for developers and builders

[16:84 ] Future of retrieval

[18:54 ] Evolution of the data ecosystem

[20:50 ] First principles approach to AI products

[23:12 ] Startups vs. incumbents

[26:01 ] What future models have in store

[29:54 ] Role of open-source models

[33:45 ] Advice for AI builders

[35:19 ] Reflections on recent events at OpenAI

[36:51 ] Logan’s hottest take on AI

[38:14 ] Predictions on the future of AGI

[39:52 ] Outro

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Building with AI is a weekly podcast featuring conversations with top AI product builders and leaders. Through thoughtful dialogue, host Haroon Choudery (CEO of Autoblocks) uncovers tactical insights that help listeners build & scale world-class AI products.

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