Could AI wipe out software engineers? In Episode 28 of Mixture of Experts, host Tim Hwang is joined by Chris Hay, Kaoutar El Maghraoui, and Shobhit Varshney. First, the experts discuss GitHub reporting a rise of developers driven by AI code assistant tools. Next, Big Sleep finds a vulnerability in SQLite, what is the future for these kinds of AI agents? Finally, OpenAI released SearchGPT, what is the future of AI search? Tune-in today to find out! The opinions expressed in this podcast are solely those of the participants and do not necessarily reflect the views of IBM or any other organization or entity.

Kaoutar El Maghraoui

Principal Research Scientist, AI Engineering, AI 

Chris Hay

Distinguished Engineer, CTO Customer Transformation

Shobhit Varshney

Senior Partner Consulting on AI for US/Canada/LatAm

Could AI wipe out software engineers? In Episode 28 of Mixture of Experts, host Tim Hwang is joined by Chris Hay, Kaoutar El Maghraoui, and Shobhit Varshney to discuss updates from the GitHub Octoverse, SearchGPT, and Big Sleep!

Episode 28: SearchGPT, from Naptime to Big Sleep, and GitHub Octoverse updates

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Agents, agents, and more agents! In Episode 27 of&nbsp;Mixture of Experts, host Tim Hwang is joined by Volkmar Uhlig and Vyoma Gajjar. First, the experts chat about Mark Benioff’s spicy tweet, and what this means for the future of AI agents. Next, how much energy is needed to power AI models, and should we be concerned? Then, the experts debrief Anthropic’s release of computer use. Finally, Google is integrating SynthID-Text into Gemini to help watermark AI-generated text, do we need this feature? Learn more on today’s Mixture of Experts. The opinions expressed in this podcast are solely those of the participants and do not necessarily reflect the views of IBM or any other organization or entity.

Vyoma Gajjar

AI Technical Solution Architect

Volkmar Uhlig

VP, AI Infrastructure Portfolio Lead

Agents, agents, and more agents! In Episode 27 of Mixture of Experts, host Tim Hwang is joined by Volkmar Uhlig and Vyoma Gajjar to discuss Google’s AI-generated text watermarks, AI energy consumption, Anthropic’s release of computer use, and the future of AI agents.

Episode 27: The future of agents, AI energy consumption, Anthropic's computer use, and Google watermarking AI

The future of agents, AI energy consumption, Anthropic's computer use, and Google watermarking AI

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Can chat replace search? In Episode 26 of Mixture of Experts, host Tim Hwang is joined by Kate Soule, Kush Varshney and Petros Zerfos for IBM TechXchange week! First, the experts describe how the team created the Granite 3.0 models. Next, NVIDIA enters the open source model game, what does this mean for the competition? Finally, Perplexity AI is seeking over double their valuation in new funding rounds, what does this mean for start-ups? All that and more on today’s episode. The opinions expressed in this podcast are solely those of the participants and do not necessarily reflect the views of IBM or any other organization or entity.

Kush Varshney

IBM Fellow, AI Governance

Kate Soule

Program Director, Generative AI Research

Petros Zerfos

Principal Research Scientist, Data Engineering for Generative AI

Can chat replace search? In Episode 26 of Mixture of Experts, host  Kate Soule, Kush Varshney and Petros Zerfos for IBM TechXchange week—we chat Granite 3.0, NVIDIA’s Nemotron AI model, and Perplexity’s fundraising!

Episode 26: Granite 3.0, NVIDIA’s Nemotron AI model, and Perplexity’s fundraising

Can AI solve infectious disease? In Episode 25 of Mixture of Experts, host Tim Hwang is joined by Kaoutar El Maghraoui, Maya Murad, and Ruben Boonen. Today we analyze some papers. First, the experts dissect Machines of Loving Grace, a 15,000 word essay written by Anthropic’s CEO making some major AI predictions. Then, Apple generated a new benchmark based of GSM8K in a recent paper, the findings were intriguing. Next, we talk Entropix, a sampler intending to replicate chain of thought features. Finally, OpenAI disclosed they are seeing an increase in AI models faking articles, what can we do to fix this? All this and more, on today’s Mixture of Experts. The opinions expressed in this podcast are solely those of the participants and do not necessarily reflect the views of IBM or any other organization or entity.

Principal Research Scientist, AI Engineering, AI Hardware Center

Maya Murad

Product Manager, AI Incubation

Ruben Boonen

CNE Capability Lead

Can AI solve infectious disease? In Episode 25 of Mixture of Experts, host Tim Hwang is joined by Kaoutar El Maghraoui, Maya Murad, and Ruben Boonen to chat Machines of Loving Grace, AI and elections, Entropix, and GSM8K.

Episode 25: Machines of Loving Grace, Entropix, AI and elections, GSM8K

Machines of Loving Grace, Entropix, AI and elections, GSM8K

Could AI win a Nobel Prize in the future? In Episode 24 of Mixture of Experts, host Tim Hwang is joined by Chris Hay and Edward Calvesbert. First, the experts debrief the ‘Godfather of AI’ sharing a Nobel Prize. Next, we talk AI platforms and the hype around DGX B200. Finally, unstructured data is becoming usable for LLMs, why are companies like NVIDIA so interested in this data? Tune-in today to find out! The opinions expressed in this podcast are solely those of the participants and do not necessarily reflect the views of IBM or any other organization or entity.

Edward Calvesbert

VP, Product Management, watsonx Platform

Could AI win a Nobel Prize in the future? In Episode 24 of Mixture of Experts, host Tim Hwang is joined by Chris Hay and Edward Calvesbert to chat the AI in the Nobels, DGX B200, and all things unstructured data.

Episode 24: AI in the Nobels, DGX B200 arrival, and Unstructured’s $40M funding round

AI in the Nobels, DGX B200 arrival, and Unstructured’s $40M funding round

Will DeepDive replace the Mixture of Experts podcast? In Episode 23, host Tim Hwang is joined by IBM Researchers Marina Danilevsky, Nathalie Baracaldo and Vagner Santana to dissect this week’s AI news. First, the experts talk about the hype around Google’s NotebookLM, specifically regarding the DeepDive podcast feature. Next, OpenAI DevDay sparks some interesting conversation around vision fine-tuning and multimodality. Finally, it’s Cybersecurity Awareness Month and IBM X-Force released the Cloud Threat Landscape Report. Will AI prevent phishing attacks? Tune-in to this week’s episode to learn more! The opinions expressed in this podcast are solely those of the participants and do not necessarily reflect the views of IBM or any other organization or entity.

Marina Danilevsky

Senior Research Scientist

Vagner Santana

Staff Research Scientist - Master Inventor, Responsible Tech Team

Nathalie Baracaldo

Senior Research Scientist, Master Inventor

Will DeepDive replace the Mixture of Experts podcast? In Episode 23, our experts discuss Google’s NotebookLM, OpenAI DevDay 2024 announcements, and IBM X-Force’s Cloud Threat Landscape Report.

Episode 23: NotebookLM, OpenAI DevDay, and will AI prevent phishing attacks?

NotebookLM, OpenAI DevDay, and will AI prevent phishing attacks?

Meta releases Llama 3.2! In Episode 22 of Mixture of Experts, host Tim Hwang is joined by Maryam Ashoori, Skyler Speakman, and Shobhit Varshney to debrief an exciting week of AI news. First, Meta is back with the release of Llama 3.2, and lightweight (1B/3B) models. Next, it’s Climate Week NYC, we chat the use of gen AI in achieving sustainable development goals. Specifically, IBM and NASA’s AI model for weather and climate. Finally, the book version of “AI Snake Oil” officially dropped and the authors claim they will be wrong in 2.5 years. What do our experts think? Tune-in today to find out! The opinions expressed in this podcast are solely those of the participants and do not necessarily reflect the views of IBM or any other organization or entity.

Skyler Speakman

Senior Research Scientist 

Maryam Ashoori

Director of Product Management, watsonx.ai

Meta releases Llama 3.2! In Episode 22 of Mixture of Experts, our panelists analyze the capabilities of Llama 3.2 and lightweight (1B/3B) models, the “AI Snake Oil” book release, and the impacts of gen AI on sustainability. 

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Episode 28: SearchGPT, from Naptime to Big Sleep, and GitHub Octoverse updates

Episode 27: The future of agents, AI energy consumption, Anthropic's computer use, and Google watermarking AI

Episode 26: Granite 3.0, NVIDIA’s Nemotron AI model, and Perplexity’s fundraising

Episode 25: Machines of Loving Grace, Entropix, AI and elections, GSM8K

Episode 24: AI in the Nobels, DGX B200 arrival, and Unstructured’s $40M funding round

Episode 23: NotebookLM, OpenAI DevDay, and will AI prevent phishing attacks?

Episode 22: Llama 3.2, AI Snake Oil, and gen AI for sustainability

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