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Podcast: Make Things That Matter
Episode: Chris Smith: How to think about adding AI to your product
Description: Chris Smith is a longtime engineering leader who has been in the trenches of building with AI & machine learning for years. He’s led the development of data systems & strategies at tech giants like early Google, Yahoo, and Sun; S&P 500's like Live Nation; and a wide variety of startups.—Topics discussed:(00:00) AI industry at inflection point, causing chaos(09:05) Machine learning, neural nets, and generative AI(14:03) Generative AI: LLMs + broad understanding(21:56) Open source models improve specialized problem solving(25:06) Access to data leads to competitive adva...