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Becoming an AI Evangelist // Alex Volkov // #215
1 hour 14 minutes Posted Mar 1, 2024 at 12:37 pm.
] Alex's preferred beverage
] Takeaways
] Take the Evaluation Survey!
] Alex's journey for the past 15 years
] Career moves
] Building communities
] AI/MLOps Growth in COVID
] Recent developments and insights
33:03] WandB Ad
] Multimodal RAG and Lucid Dreaming
] Evaluation Practices in MLOps
] Evaluating AI models effectively
] Embedding models and updates
] AI model trade-offs
] Optimizing LLM user experience
] Perceived performance optimization
] Agents' hype and reality
] Exploring DSPy for evaluation
] Wrap up
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Alex Volkov serves as the AI Evangelist with
Weights & Biases, Host of ThursdAI, Founder and CEO Targum and AI Consultant GPU POOR Def. not an owl.
MLOps podcast #215 with Alex Volkov, AI Evangelist at Weights & Biases, Becoming an AI Evangelist.
// Abstract
Follow Alex's journey into the world of AI, from being interested in running his first AI models to founding an AI startup, running a successful weekly AI news podcast & newsletter, and landing a job with  @WeightsBiases .
// Bio
Alex Volkov is an AI Evangelist at Weights & Biases, celebrated for his expertise in clarifying the complexities of AI and advocating for its beneficial uses. He is the founder and host of ThursdAI, a weekly newsletter and podcast that explores the latest in AI, its practical applications, open-source and innovation. With a solid foundation as an AI startup founder and 20 years in full-stack software engineering, Alex offers a deep well of experience and insight into AI innovation.
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// Related Links
Evaluation Survey: https://hq.yougot.us/primary/WebInterview/3AW6LW5D/Start
Website: https://thursdai.news
Alex on X (+X spaces also are also there) - https://twitter.com/altryne/
ThursdAI podcast/newsletter - https://sub.thursdai.news
Denver local AI tinkerers meetup - https://denver-boulder.aitinkerers.org/
Weights & Biases Growth Team hack week review - https://www.youtube.com/watchInterview w/
Crew AI creator Joao Moura - https://sub.thursdai.news/p/jan14-sunday-special-deep-dives
The Future of Search in the Era of Large Language Models // Saahil Jain // MLOps Podcast #150: https://youtu.be/hMoMvK89iogDSPy: Transforming Language Model Calls into Smart Pipelines // Omar Khattab // MLOps Podcast #194: https://youtu.be/NoaDWKHdkHg
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