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Hamza Farooq: World of LLMs, AI, Career Tips - AI Portfolio Podcast
In this first episode you will learn why Hamza left Google as a Senior Research Manager to start a search startup given all the progress of large language models (LLM). He covers some core tenants you need to start building LLM-based systems. More importantly, in this fast-moving field, you learn how Hamza navigated his career and what you can do to make progress.
Hamza Farooq is the CEO/founder of traversaal.ai. Previously, he was a Sr. Research Science Manager at Google, a lecturer at Stanford, and an adjunct professor at the University of Minnesota. Hamza has worked at top companies such as Walmart Labs and Gallup and teaches a course on Maven called Building LLMs Applications from Scratch into Production.
📲 Hamza Farooq Socials:
LinkedIn: / hamzafarooq
📲 Mark Moyou, PhD Socials:
LinkedIn: / markmoyou
Twitter: / markmoyou
Startup (Traversaal.ai) - https://www.traversaal.ai/
📒 Chapters
00:00:00 Intro
00:03:01 - LLM Summer
00:04:06 - Falcon AI
00:07:27 - Language Modelling
00:08:33 - Distance Vs Metric Space Modeling
00:11:36 - Context Learning vs fine-tuning
00:14:38 - Benefit of larger LLM
00:17:41 - Lexical, Hybrid, or Neural Approach
00:21:41 - Natural preferences in LLM
00:24:52 - LLM in user reviews
00:27:34 - FOMO of AI
00:30:16 - AI Hype or Innovation
00:34:26 - Generative Models
00:35:40 - Open AI vs open-source models
00:38:36 - Open Source Models monetization
00:40:18 - Mistakes in LLM journey
00:41:53 - What is LLM
00:44:01 - LLM optimization
00:46:09 - NLP or LLM
00:47:35 - LLM consumption
00:49:04 - Models Hosting
00:51:17 - Education
00:53:33 - Open Source work
00:55:29 - ML system design
00:58:14 - Career
01:04:15 - Career Optimization function
01:08:24 - Advice for international students
01:11:06 - MBA and PhD
01:15:06 - Imposter Syndrome
01:16:44 - Perspectives for People in their home country
01:20:24 - Unfair Advantage