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Join us – Tom Chavez and Vivek Vaidya – where we reveal all the joys and sorrows of company building. From the guttermost to the uttermost, we’re not going to hold back.
Featured episode
super{set} Partners Tom, Vivek, and Jeremy Chat Fund II
super{set} General Partner Jeremy Klein joins Tom and Vivek for this special episode digging into Jeremy's background and early work at the inception of super{set}, the immense data+AI opportunity today, why super{set} has raised Fund II, and how super{set} will partner with co-founders in Fund II. Don't miss this big news!
AI Hot Takes: Deepfakes, The Big Stakes, and What to Make
Is AI our salvation or is it going to kill us all? Tom and Vivek roam widely on others’ takes about artificial intelligence, adding their insight and experience to the mix. Along the way they consider Descartes, Ray Kurzweil, Salt Bae, Marc Andreessen among others. If you are looking for a down to earth conversation that tempers the extremes at either end of the debate, this is the one you’ve been waiting for.
AI Alignment with Brian Christian of 'The Alignment Problem'
What does ‘AI alignment mean? Can philosophy help make AI less biased? How does reinforcement learning influence AI's unpredictability? How does AI's ‘frame problem’ affect its ability to understand objects? What role does human feedback play in machine learning and AI fine-tuning?
MIT Professor Rama Ramakrishnan on How ChatGPT Works
MIT Professor Rama Ramakrishnan joins Vivek on the pod to delve into the evolution of Generative AI and ChatGPT, as well as his own journey as an entrepreneur turned business school professor.