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

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:

• The modern data stack for LLMs,
• The significance of human evaluations,
• How to Identify high-value use cases for businesses,
• Midjourney's successful distribution strategy,
• And much more!

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[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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