Practical AI: Roles to play in the AI dev workflow

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Education is Failing our Students in this AI-Driven World (Oct 15th)
Narrative intelligence and the human advantage (Oct 8th)
Open models and the future of Physical AI with NVIDIA (Oct 1st)
From AGENTS.md to Enterprise Deployment (Sep 24th)
How to get discovered in AI search (Sep 17th)
Computer-Use Agents and the Future of the Agentic Internet (Sep 10th)
Less about Models; More about Architecture (Sep 3rd)
Building the Foundation for the Agentic AI Era (Aug 28th)
AI Proficiency: From Users to Builders (Aug 25th)
Models, Harnesses, and Multi-Agent Systems (Aug 6th)
Reconstructing how OpenAI agents attacked Hugging Face (Jul 30th)
Surviving the New Economics of a Post-Agentic World (Jul 23rd)
The Future of AI Infrastructure with CoreWeave (Jul 17th)
Building Durable AI Agents (Jul 9th)
Image Generation and Visual Intelligence with Black Forest Labs (Jul 2nd)
AIUC-1: Building trust in AI agents (Jun 25th)
Zero Trust for AI Agents (Jun 11th)
Breaking down the 2026 Stanford AI Index Report (Jun 4th)
Rebooting Enterprise AI with MCP and Kubernetes (May 28th)
Hermes Agent: Agents that grow with you (May 21st)
U.S. Congressman Beyer on AI challenges facing America and the World (May 14th)
The Myth of Model Wars: Open vs Closed AI in 2026 (May 7th)
The mythos of Mythos and Allbirds takes flight to the neocloud (Apr 23rd)
Open Source Self-Driving with Comma AI (Apr 16th)
Post-Mortem of Anthropic's Claude Code Leak (Apr 9th)
Agentic Coding and the Economics of Open Source (Apr 2nd)
AI at the Edge is a different operating environment (Mar 25th)
Humility in the Age of Agentic Coding (Mar 17th)
AI policy and the battle for computing power (Mar 9th)
Cognitive Synthesis and Neural Athletes (Feb 18th)
AI incidents, audits, and the limits of benchmarks (Feb 13th)
Inside an AI-Run Company (Feb 2nd)
How is AI shaping democracy? (Jan 27th)
Controlling AI Models from the Inside (Jan 20th)
2025 was the year of agents, what's coming in 2026? (Jan 9th)
Beyond chatbots: Agents that tackle your SOPs (Dec 17th, 2025)
The AI engineer skills gap (Dec 10th, 2025)
Technical advances in document understanding (Dec 2nd, 2025)
Chris on AI, autonomous swarming, home automation and Rust! (Nov 26th, 2025)
Beyond note-taking with Fireflies (Nov 19th, 2025)
Autonomous Vehicle Research at Waymo (Nov 13th, 2025)
Are we in an AI bubble? (Nov 10th, 2025)
While loops with tool calls (Oct 30th, 2025)
Tiny Recursive Networks (Oct 24th, 2025)
Dealing with increasingly complicated agents (Oct 16th, 2025)
The impact of AI on the workforce: A state-level case study (Oct 9th, 2025)
We've all done RAG, now what? (Sep 29th, 2025)
Creating a private AI assistant in Thunderbird (Sep 23rd, 2025)
Cracking the code of failed AI pilots (Sep 11th, 2025)
GenAI risks and global adoption (Aug 27th, 2025)
Inside America’s AI Action Plan (Aug 19th, 2025)
Confident, strategic AI leadership (Aug 12th, 2025)
Educating a data-literate generation (Aug 8th, 2025)
Workforce dynamics in an AI-assisted world (Aug 1st, 2025)
Reimagining actuarial science with AI (Jul 25th, 2025)
Agentic AI for Drone & Robotic Swarming (Jul 15th, 2025)
AI in the shadows: From hallucinations to blackmail (Jul 7th, 2025)
Finding Nemotron (Jul 2nd, 2025)
AI hot takes and debates: Autonomy (Jun 27th, 2025)
Behind-the-Scenes: VC Funding for AI Startups (Jun 18th, 2025)
AI-Automated Film Making (Jun 12th, 2025)
Federated learning in production (part 2) (Jun 4th, 2025)
Federated learning in production (part 1) (May 30th, 2025)
Emailing like a superhuman (May 20th, 2025)
Model Context Protocol Deep Dive (May 8th, 2025)
Seeing beyond the scan in neuroimaging (Apr 30th, 2025)
Open source AI to tackle your backlog (Apr 17th, 2025)
Orchestrating agents, APIs, and MCP servers (Apr 14th, 2025)
Software and hardware acceleration with Groq (Apr 2nd, 2025)
AI-assisted coding with GitHub's COO (Mar 21st, 2025)
Optimizing for efficiency with IBM’s Granite (Mar 14th, 2025)
Build a workspace of AI agents (Mar 8th, 2025)
GenAI hot takes and bad use cases (Feb 24th, 2025)
Tool calling and agents (Feb 14th, 2025)
Deep-dive into DeepSeek (Jan 31st, 2025)
Video generation with realistic motion (Jan 23rd, 2025)
Mozart to Megadeth at CHRP (Dec 19th, 2024)
Sidekick is an AI Shopify expert (Dec 11th, 2024)
Full-duplex, real-time dialogue with Kyutai (Dec 4th, 2024)
Clones, commerce & campaigns (Nov 29th, 2024)
scikit-learn & data science you own (Nov 19th, 2024)
Creating tested, reliable AI applications (Nov 13th, 2024)
AI is changing the cybersecurity threat landscape (Nov 5th, 2024)
The path towards trustworthy AI (Oct 29th, 2024)
Big data is dead, analytics is alive (Oct 24th, 2024)
Practical workflow orchestration (Oct 15th, 2024)
Towards high-quality (maybe synthetic) datasets (Oct 9th, 2024)
Understanding what's possible, doable & scalable (Oct 3rd, 2024)
GraphRAG (beyond the hype) (Sep 25th, 2024)
Pausing to think about scikit-learn & OpenAI o1 (Sep 17th, 2024)
Cybersecurity in the GenAI age (Sep 11th, 2024)
AI is more than GenAI (Sep 5th, 2024)
Metrics Driven Development (Aug 29th, 2024)
Threat modeling LLM apps (Aug 22nd, 2024)
Only as good as the data (Aug 14th, 2024)
Gaudi processors & Intel's AI portfolio (Aug 7th, 2024)
Broccoli AI at its best 🥦 (Jul 31st, 2024)
Hyperventilating over the Gartner AI Hype Cycle (Jul 24th, 2024)
The first real-time voice assistant (Jul 18th, 2024)
Vectoring in on Pinecone (Jul 10th, 2024)
Stanford's AI Index Report 2024 (Jul 2nd, 2024)
Apple Intelligence & Advanced RAG (Jun 25th, 2024)
The perplexities of information retrieval (Jun 19th, 2024)
Using edge models to find sensitive data (Jun 13th, 2024)
Rise of the AI PC & local LLMs (Jun 4th, 2024)
AI in the U.S. Congress (May 29th, 2024)
First impressions of GPT-4o (May 22nd, 2024)
Full-stack approach for effective AI agents (May 15th, 2024)
Autonomous fighter jets?! (May 8th, 2024)
Private, open source chat UIs (Apr 30th, 2024)
Mamba & Jamba (Apr 24th, 2024)
Udio & the age of multi-modal AI (Apr 16th, 2024)
RAG continues to rise (Apr 10th, 2024)
Should kids still learn to code? (Apr 2nd, 2024)
AI vs software devs (Mar 26th, 2024)
Prompting the future (Mar 20th, 2024)
Generating the future of art & entertainment (Mar 12th, 2024)
YOLOv9: Computer vision is alive and well (Mar 6th, 2024)
Representation Engineering (Activation Hacking) (Feb 28th, 2024)
Leading the charge on AI in National Security (Feb 20th, 2024)
Gemini vs OpenAI (Feb 14th, 2024)
Data synthesis for SOTA LLMs (Feb 6th, 2024)
Large Action Models (LAMs) & Rabbits 🐇 (Jan 30th, 2024)
Collaboration & evaluation for LLM apps (Jan 23rd, 2024)
Advent of GenAI Hackathon recap (Jan 17th, 2024)
AI predictions for 2024 (Jan 10th, 2024)
Open source, on-disk vector search with LanceDB (Dec 19th, 2023)
The state of open source AI (Dec 12th, 2023)
Suspicion machines ⚙️ (Dec 5th, 2023)
The OpenAI debacle (a retrospective) (Nov 29th, 2023)
Generating product imagery at Shopify (Nov 21st, 2023)
AI trailblazers putting people first (Nov 14th, 2023)
Government regulation of AI has arrived (Nov 7th, 2023)
Self-hosting & scaling models (Oct 31st, 2023)
Deep learning in Rust with Burn 🔥 (Oct 24th, 2023)
AI's impact on developers (Oct 20th, 2023)
Generative models: exploration to deployment (Oct 3rd, 2023)
Automate all the UIs! (Sep 20th, 2023)
Fine-tuning vs RAG (Sep 6th, 2023)
Automating code optimization with LLMs (Aug 29th, 2023)
The new AI app stack (Aug 23rd, 2023)
Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights (Aug 9th, 2023)
Vector databases (beyond the hype) (Aug 1st, 2023)
There's a new Llama in town (Jul 25th, 2023)
Legal consequences of generated content (Jul 18th, 2023)
A developer's toolkit for SOTA AI (Jul 12th, 2023)
Cambrian explosion of generative models (Jul 6th, 2023)
Automated cartography using AI (Jun 28th, 2023)
From ML to AI to Generative AI (Jun 21st, 2023)
AI trends: a Latent Space crossover (Jun 14th, 2023)
Accidentally building SOTA AI (Jun 6th, 2023)
Controlled and compliant AI applications (May 31st, 2023)
Data augmentation with LlamaIndex (May 23rd, 2023)
Creating instruction tuned models (May 16th, 2023)
The last mile of AI app development (May 11th, 2023)
Large models on CPUs (May 2nd, 2023)
Causal inference (Apr 25th, 2023)
Capabilities of LLMs 🤯 (Apr 19th, 2023)
Computer scientists as rogue art historians (Apr 12th, 2023)
Accelerated data science with a Kaggle grandmaster (Apr 4th, 2023)
Explainable AI that is accessible for all humans (Mar 28th, 2023)
AI search at You.com (Mar 15th, 2023)
End-to-end cloud compute for AI/ML (Mar 7th, 2023)
Success (and failure) in prompting (Feb 28th, 2023)
Applied NLP solutions & AI education (Feb 22nd, 2023)
Serverless GPUs (Feb 14th, 2023)
MLOps is alive and well (Feb 7th, 2023)
3D assets & simulation at NVIDIA (Jan 31st, 2023)
GPU dev environments that just work (Jan 24th, 2023)
Machine learning at small organizations (Jan 17th, 2023)
ChatGPT goes prime time! (Jan 10th, 2023)
NLP research by & for local communities (Jan 3rd, 2023)
SOTA machine translation at Unbabel (Dec 13th, 2022)
AI competitions & cloud resources (Dec 7th, 2022)
Copilot lawsuits & Galactica "science" (Nov 29th, 2022)
Protecting us with the Database of Evil (Nov 16th, 2022)
Hybrid computing with quantum processors (Nov 8th, 2022)
The practicalities of releasing models (Nov 1st, 2022)
AI adoption in large, well-established companies (Oct 26th, 2022)
Data for All (Oct 18th, 2022)
What's up, DocQuery? (Oct 12th, 2022)
Production data labeling workflows (Sep 27th, 2022)
Evaluating models without test data (Sep 20th, 2022)
Stable Diffusion (Sep 13th, 2022)
Licensing & automating creativity (Sep 6th, 2022)
Privacy in the age of AI (Aug 30th, 2022)
Practical, positive uses for deep fakes (Aug 24th, 2022)
CMU's AI pilot lands in the news 🗞 (Aug 16th, 2022)
AlphaFold is revolutionizing biology (Aug 9th, 2022)
AI IRL & Mozilla's Internet Health Report (Aug 2nd, 2022)
The geopolitics of artificial intelligence (Jul 26th, 2022)
DALL-E is one giant leap for raccoons! 🔭 (Jul 19th, 2022)
Cloning voices with Coqui (Jul 12th, 2022)
AI's role in reprogramming immunity (Jun 28th, 2022)
Machine learning in your database (Jun 22nd, 2022)
Digital humans & detecting emotions (Jun 14th, 2022)
Generalist models & Iceman's voice (Jun 7th, 2022)
🤗 The AI community building the future (May 31st, 2022)
Active learning & endangered languages (May 17th, 2022)
Learning the language of life (May 3rd, 2022)
MLOps is NOT Real (Apr 26th, 2022)
🌍 AI in Africa - Agriculture (Apr 19th, 2022)
Quick, beautiful web UIs for ML apps (Apr 5th, 2022)
It's been a BIG week in AI news 🗞 (Mar 29th, 2022)
"Foundation" models (Mar 23rd, 2022)
Clothing AI in a data fabric (Mar 16th, 2022)
Creating a culture of innovation (Mar 8th, 2022)
Deploying models (to tractors 🚜) (Mar 1st, 2022)
One algorithm to rule them all? (Feb 15th, 2022)
🌍 AI in Africa - Voice & language tools (Feb 9th, 2022)
Exploring deep reinforcement learning (Feb 1st, 2022)
The world needs an AI superhero (Jan 25th, 2022)
Democratizing ML for speech (Jan 19th, 2022)
Eliminate AI failures (Jan 11th, 2022)
🌍 AI in Africa - Radiant Earth (Jan 5th, 2022)
OpenAI and Hugging Face tooling (Dec 14th, 2021)
Friendly federated learning 🌼 (Dec 7th, 2021)
Technology as a force for good (Dec 2nd, 2021)
AI-generated code with OpenAI Codex (Nov 30th, 2021)
Zero-shot multitask learning (Nov 24th, 2021)
Analyzing the 2021 AI Index Report (Nov 10th, 2021)
Photonic computing for AI acceleration (Nov 2nd, 2021)
Eureka moments with natural language processing (Oct 26th, 2021)
🌍 AI in Africa - Makerere AI Lab (Oct 19th, 2021)
Federated Learning 📱 (Oct 12th, 2021)
The mathematics of machine learning (Oct 5th, 2021)
Balancing human intelligence with AI (Sep 28th, 2021)
From notebooks to Netflix scale with Metaflow (Sep 21st, 2021)
Trends in data labeling (Sep 14th, 2021)
Stellar inference speed via AutoNAS (Sep 7th, 2021)
Anaconda + Pyston and more (Sep 1st, 2021)
Exploring a new AI lexicon (Aug 24th, 2021)
NLP to help pregnant mothers in Kenya (Aug 17th, 2021)
SLICED - will you make the (data science) cut? (Aug 10th, 2021)
AI is creating never before heard sounds! 🎵 (Aug 3rd, 2021)
Building a data team (Jul 27th, 2021)
Towards stability and robustness (Jul 20th, 2021)
From symbols to AI pair programmers 💻 (Jul 13th, 2021)
Vector databases for machine learning (Jun 22nd, 2021)
Multi-GPU training is hard (without PyTorch Lightning) (Jun 15th, 2021)
Learning to learn deep learning 📖 (Jun 8th, 2021)
The fastest way to build ML-powered apps (Jun 1st, 2021)
Elixir meets machine learning (May 26th, 2021)
Apache TVM and OctoML (May 18th, 2021)
25 years of speech technology innovation (May 11th, 2021)
Generating "hunches" using smart home data 🏠 (May 4th, 2021)
Mapping the world (Apr 27th, 2021)
Data science for intuitive user experiences (Apr 20th, 2021)
Going full bore with Graphcore! (Apr 13th, 2021)
Next-gen voice assistants (Apr 6th, 2021)
Women in Data Science (WiDS) (Mar 30th, 2021)
Recommender systems and high-frequency trading (Mar 23rd, 2021)
Deep learning technology for drug discovery (Mar 9th, 2021)
Green AI 🌲 (Mar 2nd, 2021)
Low code, no code, accelerated code, & failing code (Feb 23rd, 2021)
The AI doc will see you now (Feb 16th, 2021)
Cooking up synthetic data with Gretel (Feb 2nd, 2021)
The nose knows (Jan 26th, 2021)
Accelerating ML innovation at MLCommons (Jan 19th, 2021)
The $1 trillion dollar ML model 💵 (Jan 11th, 2021)
Getting in the Flow with Snorkel AI (Dec 21st, 2020)
Engaging with governments on AI for good (Dec 14th, 2020)
From research to product at Azure AI (Dec 7th, 2020)
The world's largest open library dataset (Dec 1st, 2020)
A casual conversation concerning causal inference (Nov 24th, 2020)
Building a deep learning workstation (Nov 17th, 2020)
Killer developer tools for machine learning (Nov 9th, 2020)
Reinforcement Learning for search (Oct 26th, 2020)
When data leakage turns into a flood of trouble (Oct 20th, 2020)
Productionizing AI at LinkedIn (Oct 13th, 2020)
R, Data Science, & Computational Biology (Oct 6th, 2020)
Learning about (Deep) Learning (Sep 21st, 2020)
When AI goes wrong (Sep 14th, 2020)
Speech tech and Common Voice at Mozilla (Sep 9th, 2020)
Getting Waymo into autonomous driving (Sep 1st, 2020)
Hidden Door and so much more (Aug 24th, 2020)
Building the world's most popular data science platform (Aug 17th, 2020)
Practical AI turns 100!!! 🎉 (Aug 11th, 2020)
Attack of the C̶l̶o̶n̶e̶s̶ Text! (Aug 3rd, 2020)
🤗 All things transformers with Hugging Face (Jul 27th, 2020)
MLOps and tracking experiments with Allegro AI (Jul 20th, 2020)
Practical AI Ethics (Jul 14th, 2020)
The ins and outs of open source for AI (Jul 7th, 2020)
Operationalizing ML/AI with MemSQL (Jun 29th, 2020)
Roles to play in the AI dev workflow (Jun 22nd, 2020)
The long road to AGI (Jun 15th, 2020)
Explaining AI explainability (Jun 8th, 2020)
Exploring NVIDIA's Ampere & the A100 GPU (May 26th, 2020)
AI for Good: clean water access in Africa (May 11th, 2020)
Ask us anything (about AI) (May 4th, 2020)
Reinforcement learning for chip design (Apr 27th, 2020)
Exploring the COVID-19 Open Research Dataset (Apr 20th, 2020)
Achieving provably beneficial, human-compatible AI (Apr 13th, 2020)
COVID-19 Q&A and CORD-19 (Apr 6th, 2020)
Mapping the intersection of AI and GIS (Mar 30th, 2020)
Welcome to Practical AI (Mar 25th, 2020)
Speech recognition to say it just right (Mar 23rd, 2020)
Building a career in Data Science (Mar 16th, 2020)
What exactly is "data science" these days? (Mar 9th, 2020)
TensorFlow in the cloud (Mar 2nd, 2020)
NLP for the world's 7000+ languages (Feb 24th, 2020)
Real-time conversational insights from phone call data (Feb 17th, 2020)
AI-powered scientific exploration and discovery (Feb 10th, 2020)
Insights from the AI Index 2019 Annual Report (Feb 3rd, 2020)
Testing ML systems (Jan 27th, 2020)
AI-driven automation in manufacturing (Jan 20th, 2020)
How the U.S. military thinks about AI (Jan 13th, 2020)
2019's AI top 5 (Jan 6th, 2020)
AI for search at Etsy (Dec 23rd, 2019)
Escaping the "dark ages" of AI infrastructure (Dec 16th, 2019)
Modern NLP with spaCy (Dec 9th, 2019)
Making GANs practical (Dec 2nd, 2019)
Build custom ML tools with Streamlit (Nov 25th, 2019)
Intelligent systems and knowledge graphs (Nov 18th, 2019)
Robot hands solving Rubik's cubes (Nov 11th, 2019)
Open source data labeling tools (Nov 5th, 2019)
It's time to talk time series (Oct 28th, 2019)
AI in the browser (Oct 21st, 2019)
Blacklisted facial recognition and surveillance companies (Oct 15th, 2019)
Flying high with AI drone racing at AlphaPilot (Oct 7th, 2019)
AI in the majority world and model distillation (Sep 30th, 2019)
The influence of open source on AI development (Sep 25th, 2019)
Worlds are colliding - AI and HPC (Sep 17th, 2019)
AutoML and AI at Google (Sep 9th, 2019)
On being humAIn (Aug 26th, 2019)
Serving deep learning models with RedisAI (Aug 12th, 2019)
AI-driven studies of the ancient world and good GANs (Jul 30th, 2019)
AI code that facilitates good science (Jul 19th, 2019)
Celebrating episode 50 and the neural net! (Jul 3rd, 2019)
Exposing the deception of DeepFakes (Jun 25th, 2019)
Model inspection and interpretation at Seldon (Jun 17th, 2019)
GANs, RL, and transfer learning oh my! (Jun 11th, 2019)
Visualizing and understanding RNNs (Jun 4th, 2019)
How to get plugged into the AI community (May 28th, 2019)
AI adoption in the enterprise (May 21st, 2019)
When AI meets quantum mechanics (May 14th, 2019)
TensorFlow Dev Summit 2019 (May 7th, 2019)
CTRL-labs lets you control machines with your mind (Apr 30th, 2019)
Deep Reinforcement Learning (Apr 23rd, 2019)
Making the world a better place at the AI for Good Foundation (Apr 15th, 2019)
GIPHY's celebrity detector (Apr 8th, 2019)
The landscape of AI infrastructure (Apr 2nd, 2019)
Growing up to become a world-class AI expert (Mar 25th, 2019)
Social AI with Hugging Face (Mar 18th, 2019)
The White House Executive Order on AI (Mar 11th, 2019)
Staving off disaster through AI safety research (Mar 4th, 2019)
OpenAI's new "dangerous" GPT-2 language model (Feb 25th, 2019)
AI for social good at Intel (Feb 20th, 2019)
GirlsCoding.org empowers young women to embrace computer science (Feb 13th, 2019)
How Microsoft is using AI to help the Earth (Feb 4th, 2019)
New year’s resolution: dive into deep learning! (Jan 28th, 2019)
IBM's AI for detecting neurological state (Jan 21st, 2019)
2018 in review and bold predictions for 2019 (Jan 14th, 2019)
Finding success with AI in the enterprise (Dec 17th, 2018)
So you have an AI model, now what? (Dec 10th, 2018)
Pachyderm's Kubernetes-based infrastructure for AI (Dec 3rd, 2018)
BERT: one NLP model to rule them all (Nov 27th, 2018)
UBER and Intel’s Machine Learning platforms (Nov 19th, 2018)
Analyzing AI's impact on society through art and film (Nov 12th, 2018)
Getting into data science and AI (Nov 5th, 2018)
AIs that look human and create portraits of humans (Oct 31st, 2018)
Fighting bias in AI (and in hiring) (Oct 22nd, 2018)
PyTorch 1.0 vs TensorFlow 2.0 (Oct 15th, 2018)
Artificial intelligence at NVIDIA (Oct 8th, 2018)
OpenAI, reinforcement learning, robots, safety (Oct 1st, 2018)
Answering recent AI questions from Quora (Sep 18th, 2018)
AI in healthcare, synthesizing dance moves, hardware acceleration (Sep 3rd, 2018)
Robot Perception and Mask R-CNN (Aug 27th, 2018)
Open source tools, AI for Dota, and enterprise ML adoption (Aug 21st, 2018)
Behavioral economics and AI-driven decision making (Aug 13th, 2018)
Eye tracking, Henry Kissinger on AI, Vim (Aug 6th, 2018)
Understanding the landscape of AI techniques (Jul 30th, 2018)
Government use of facial recognition and AI at Google (Jul 23rd, 2018)
Detecting planets with deep learning (Jul 16th, 2018)
Data management, regulation, the future of AI (Jul 9th, 2018)
Helping African farmers with TensorFlow (Jul 2nd, 2018)
Putting AI in a box at MachineBox (Jul 2nd, 2018)
Meet your Practical AI hosts (Jul 2nd, 2018)

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