Hilary Mason: Deterministic vs. Probabilistic, and How AI is Changing Storytelling

Описание: Hilary Mason was on the ground floor of data science research, and now she’s bringing that same pioneering spirit to generative AI. For this episode, Host and Partner at Lightspeed, Michael Mignano, talks with Hilary about how to safeguard probabilistic systems and how researchers and founders can form the most effective teams.

00:00 - Intro
05:18 - A founder’s thoughts - NYC vs. Silicon Valley
09:50 - Why Hilary thinks non-linear storytelling was wrong
13:44 - Understanding online traffic through bit.ly
15:57 - The taxonomy of data science
19:06 - Founding Fast Forward Labs - “Hire your nerd best friend”
23:05 - Can academia and startups coexist?
26:50 - Machine learning (ML) vs. Artificial Intelligence (AI)
34:00 - Selling Fast Forward Labs to Cloudera
38:51 - Hidden Door’s inception
44:29 - The challenge - and opportunity - of AI hallucinations
48:07 - What is Hidden Door?
52:38 - Building an architecture for unstructured input
57:38 - How can you try Hidden Door?
01:00:45 - Shifting the software engineer mindset
01:04:17 - How will product-building shift with generative AI?
01:07:34 - Is AI hype dangerous?
01:12:36 - Where to learn more about Hidden Door

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