{"podcast":{"title":"Latent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast","slug":"latent-space-ai-engineer","podcast_index_feed_id":6058902,"rss_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/1084089.rss","website_url":"https://www.latent.space/podcast","image_url":"https://substackcdn.com/feed/podcast/1084089/ca7468da5614a246d2906ee8926f6de7.jpg","author":"Latent.Space","episode_count":204,"summary":"The AI Engineer newsletter + Top technical AI podcast. How leading labs build Agents, Models, Infra, & AI for Science. See https://latent.space/about for highlights from Greg Brockman, Andrej Karpathy, George Hotz, Simon Willison, Soumith Chintala et al!","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/latent-space-ai-engineer"},"episode":{"title":"Unsupervised Learning x Latent Space Crossover Special","slug":"unsupervised-learning-x-latent-space-crossover-special","published_at":"2025-03-29T13:51:50+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/latent-space-ai-engineer/unsupervised-learning-x-latent-space-crossover-special","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/latent-space-ai-engineer","url":"https://www.latent.space/p/unsupervised-learning","audio_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/160102198/a635f4ecffb552b34ede0ca9e8be6518.mp3","summary":"If you’re in SF: Join us for the Claude Plays Pokemon hackathon this Sunday! If you’re not: Fill out the 2025 State of AI Eng survey for $250 in Amazon cards! Unsupervised Learning is a podcast that interviews the sharpest minds in AI about what’s real today, what will be real in the future and what it means for businesses and the world - helping builders, researchers and founders deconstruct and understand the biggest breakthroughs. Top guests: Noam Shazeer, Bob McGrew, Noam Brown, Dylan Patel, Percy Liang, David Luan Full Episode on Their YouTube Timestamps * 00:00 Introduction and Excitement for Collaboration * 00:27 Reflecting on Surprises in AI Over the Past Year * 01:44 Open Source Models and Their Adoption * 06:01 The Rise of GPT Wrappers * 06:55 AI Builders and Low-Code Platforms * 09:35 Overhyped and Underhyped AI Trends * 22:17 Product Market Fit in AI * 28:23 Google's Current Momentum * 28:33 Customer Support and AI * 29:54 AI's Impact on Cost and Growth * 31:05 Voice AI and Scheduling * 32:59 Emerging AI Applications * 34:12 Education and AI * 36:34 Defensibility in AI Applications * 40:10 Infrastructure and AI * 47:08 Challenges and Future of AI * 52:15 Quick Fire Round and Closing Remarks Transcript [00:00:00] Introduction and Podcast Overview [00:00:00] Jacob: well, thanks so much for doing this, guys. I feel like we've we've been excited to do a collab for a while. I [00:00:13] swyx: love crossovers. Yeah. Yeah. This, this is great. Like the ultimate meta about just podcasters talking to other podcasters. Yeah. It's a lot. Podcasts all the way up. [00:00:21] Jacob: I figured we'd have a pretty free ranging conversation today but brought a few conversation starters to, to, to kick us off. [00:00:27] Reflecting on AI Surprises and Trends [00:00:27] Jacob:…","meta_description":"If you’re in SF: Join us for the Claude Plays Pokemon hackathon this Sunday! If you’re not: Fill out the 2025 State of AI Eng survey for $250 in Amazon ca…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3713,"processing_state":"processed","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/latent-space-ai-engineer/episodes/unsupervised-learning-x-latent-space-crossover-special/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/latent-space-ai-engineer/unsupervised-learning-x-latent-space-crossover-special.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}