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Identifying high-value use cases for AI | Tomasz Tunguz (Founder of Theory Ventures)

Episode Notes

In this episode of Building With AI, host Haroon Choudery sits with Tomasz Tunguz, Founder and General Partner at Theory Ventures. Tomasz brings a valuable 10,000-foot view of the AI space, drawing from his 16 years of experience as a VC and previous work building machine learning systems at Google.

During the episode, Tomasz discusses:

[00:00] Up next: 

[00:57] Episode introduction 

[01:59] Autoblocks: AI Optimization Platform 

[02:24] Tomasz's introduction 

[03:47] The two waves of AI 

[06:09] The modern data stack for LLMs 

[11:27] The golden set of evaluations 

[15:39] Why you need human evaluations 

[17:27] Don't write off LLMs 

[21:04] Identifying high-value AI use cases for your business 

[25:30] The top industries LLMs will disrupt 

[26:52] Advice for incumbents to win the AI race 

[33:05] Advice for AI startups to disrupt industries 

[34:31] The innovation equation 

[37:16] Midjourney's successful distribution strategy 

[39:15] Will AI move beyond non-determinism? 

[43:21] The future relationship between AI and professionals 

[48:05] How to keep up with AI developments

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Building with AI is a weekly podcast featuring conversations with top AI product builders and leaders. Through thoughtful dialogue, host Haroon Choudery (Co-founder of Autoblocks) uncovers tactical insights that help listeners build & scale world-class AI products.

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