The NeuralPod

In this episode, we chat with Marco, who is extremely passionate and accomplished in NLP research; with a diverse background from the University of Amsterdam to industry giants like Amazon and Cohere. Marco shares his unique transition from academia to industry, his work on fake news detection, and his contributions to advancements in Amazon Alexa's conversational abilities.

We dig into the future of Large Language Models (LLMs), the challenges with LLM evals, and the promise of AI agents in simplifying daily tasks. Marco also discusses the emerging research directions and the potential of AI agents becoming integral to our daily lives.

00:00 Introduction and Guest Welcome
01:01  Background and Research Journey
06:28 Transition from Academia to Industry
10:13 LLMs and Their Future
15:10 Evaluating LLMs
23:43 Interpretability and Explainability
28:50 Understanding AI Agents
37:26 Research and Future of AI Agents
52:14 Predictions and Closing Remarks

Connect with Marco: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marco-del-tredici-316a2984/

What is The NeuralPod?

The NeuralPod AI Podcast

The NeuralPod is all about deep diving into technical machine learning topics and showing its real-world impact, bridging the gap between AI-first companies and adoption.

We chat with subject matter experts across reinforcement learning, recommender systems, deep learning and generative AI. As well as chatting with business leaders, VCs, operations and strategy experts.

Who are NeuralRec.ai? NeuralRec is a recruitment staffing agency. We build niche ML teams and represent some of the globe's best ML talent.