High Agency: The Podcast for AI Builders

Jason Liu is a true Renaissance Man in the world of AI. He began his career working on traditional ML recommender systems at tech giants like Meta and Stitch Fix and quickly pivoted into LLMs app development when ChatGPT opened its API in 2022. As the creator of Instructor, a Python library that structures LLM outputs for RAG applications, Jason has made significant contributions to the AI community. Today, Jason is a sought-after speaker, course creator, and Fortune 500 advisor. 

In this episode, we cut through the AI hype to explore effective strategies for building valuable AI products and discuss the future of AI across industries.

Chapters:
00:00 - Introduction and Background
08:55 - The Role of Iterative Development and Metrics
10:43 - The Importance of Hyperparameters and Experimentation
18:22 - Introducing Instructor: Ensuring Structured Outputs
20:26 - Use Cases for Instructor: Reports, Memos, and More
28:13 - Automating Research, Due Diligence, and Decision-Making
31:12 - Challenges and Limitations of Language Models
32:50 - Aligning Evaluation Metrics with Business Outcomes
35:09 - Improving Recommendation Systems and Search Algorithms
46:05 - The Future of AI and the Role of Engineers and Product Leaders
51:45 - The Raptor Paper: Organizing and Summarizing Text Chunks

I hope you enjoy the conversation and if you do, please subscribe!

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Humanloop is an Integrated Development Environment for Large Language Models. It enables product teams to develop LLM-based applications that are reliable and scalable. To find out more go to humanloop.com

What is High Agency: The Podcast for AI Builders?

High Agency is the podcast for AI builders. If you’re trying to understand how to successfully build AI products with Large Language Models and Generative AI then this podcast is made for you. Each week we interview leaders at companies building on the frontier who have already succeeded with AI in production. We share their stories, lessons and playbooks so you can build more quickly and with confidence.

AI is moving incredibly fast and no-one is truly an expert yet, High Agency is for people who are learning by doing and will share knowledge through the community.

Where to find us: https://hubs.ly/Q02z2HR40