835: AI Systems as Productivity Engines, with You.com’s Bryan McCann

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We are here recording live at Medallia Experience at the Wynn in Las Vegas, and have been seeing and hearing some amazing things about how AI can enhance the customer experience as well as enable teams at organizations to create more meaningful connections with customers. Today we’re going to talk about how AI can help to create better experiences for customers before, during, and after their interactions. To help me discuss this topic, I’d like to welcome Fabrice Martin, Chief Product Officer at Medallia. RESOURCES Medallia: https://www.medallia.com Catch the future of e-commerce at eTail Boston, August 11-14, 2025. Register now: https://bit.ly/etailboston and use code PARTNER20 for 20% off for retailers and brands Don't Miss MAICON 2025, October 14-16 in Cleveland - the event bringing together the brights minds and leading voices in AI. Use Code AGILE150 for $150 off registration. Go here to register: https://bit.ly/agile150 Connect with Greg on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gregkihlstrom Don't miss a thing: get the latest episodes, sign up for our newsletter and more: https://www.theagilebrand.show Check out The Agile Brand Guide website with articles, insights, and Martechipedia, the wiki for marketing technology: https://www.agilebrandguide.com The Agile Brand podcast is brought to you by TEKsystems. Learn more here: https://www.teksystems.com/versionnextnow The Agile Brand is produced by Missing Link—a Latina-owned strategy-driven, creatively fueled production co-op. From ideation to creation, they craft human connections through intelligent, engaging and informative content. https://www.missinglink.company…

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AI systems are evolving rapidly, and in this episode, Bryan McCann, CTO of You.com, explains You.com’s unique approach to search, the impact of AI-driven research, and the game-changing potential of AI agents. With a background in natural language processing and philosophy, Bryan joins Jon Krohn to share a fresh perspective on where AI is headed and what it means for the future of work and scientific discovery.

Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Email natalie@superdatascience.com for sponsorship information.

In this episode you will learn:

(03:55) How You.com’s “do engine” approach connects users to multiple language models
(11:34) How AI systems at You.com generate optimized, intent-driven queries for better results
(28:39) You.com’s focus on automated workflows sets it apart from other platforms
(31:31) AI agents in You.com, with Bryan predicting they’ll outnumber people by 2025
(41:49) Bryan’s path to unified AI models that can perform diverse tasks
(50:40) Early experiments with alignment in AI that influenced modern transformers
(01:04:45) Bryan’s research on controllable text generation
(01:11:27) Language models applied to protein generation, linking text and biology sequences

Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/835

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Super Data Science: ML & AI Podcast with Jon Krohn

835: AI Systems as Productivity Engines, with You.com’s Bryan McCann

Super Data Science: ML & AI Podcast with Jon Krohn

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Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Email natalie@superdatascience.com for sponsorship information.

In this episode you will learn:

(03:55) How You.com’s “do engine” approach connects users to multiple language models
(11:34) How AI systems at You.com generate optimized, intent-driven queries for better results
(28:39) You.com’s focus on automated workflows sets it apart from other platforms
(31:31) AI agents in You.com, with Bryan predicting they’ll outnumber people by 2025
(41:49) Bryan’s path to unified AI models that can perform diverse tasks
(50:40) Early experiments with alignment in AI that influenced modern transformers
(01:04:45) Bryan’s research on controllable text generation
(01:11:27) Language models applied to protein generation, linking text and biology sequences

Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/835

1184 episodios

#Data Science #Science #Tech #Software Development #Jon Krohn

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Super Data Science: ML & AI Podcast with Jon Krohn

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875: How Semiconductors Are Made (And Fuel the AI Boom), with Kai Beckmann 1:10:29

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Why are semiconductors so essential in this digital age, and how are they made? Jon Krohn speaks to electronics CEO Kai Beckmann about Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany’s intricate manufacturing process, how we can use AI to develop materials that power next-gen AI technologies, and how a chip with the processing power of the human brain might one day be able to run on the power of a low-watt light bulb. Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/875 This episode is brought to you by the Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA . Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Email natalie@superdatascience.com for sponsorship information. In this episode you will learn: (06:26) How Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany supports groundbreaking developments in AI (13:42) Material science’s biggest challenges for AI (29:55) What heterogeneous integration is (34:37) How optical tech influences the electronics industry (49:04) Navigating upturns and downturns in the semiconductor industry (53:08) How AI regulations benefit humanity…

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874: How AI is Transforming Baseball (with Lessons For All of Us) 14:27

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In this Five-Minute Friday, Jon Krohn talks baseball. For decades, coaches have relied on player performance stats to make in-game decisions and refine their season strategies. Now, AI led by Statcast is taking baseball strategy even further, massively broadening analytics data to include pitch, swing and catch trajectories, spin rates, biomechanical information, player matchups, and how to enhance player performances. Listen to the episode to find out what other industries can learn from the “data-friendly” sport of baseball. Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/874 Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Email natalie@superdatascience.com for sponsorship information.…

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873: Become Your Best Self Through AI Augmentation — feat. Natalie Monbiot 1:12:32

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Natalie Monbiot is an independent advisor and collaborator for projects that concern the “virtual human”, and she is “going all in on the virtual human economy”. Jon Krohn speaks to Natalie about these new ventures, how to mitigate the divide between AI users and nonusers, and how anyone can collaborate with AI without compromising their own creativity. Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/873 This episode is brought to you by the Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA , by Trainium2, the latest AI chip from AWS and by ODSC, the Open Data Science Conference . Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Email natalie@superdatascience.com for sponsorship information. In this episode you will learn: (07:21) Natalie’s influences for her work (18:30) Will machines surpass human intelligence? (29:08) Using LLMs as collaborators and partners (40:15) How platforms demand user engagement and time (56:54) Natalie Monbiot at Wizly…

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872: Microsoft’s “Majorana 1” Chip Brings Quantum ML Closer 12:20

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In this five-minute Friday, Jon Krohn looks into Microsoft’s recent release of Majorana 1, a new quantum processing unit that uses topological qubits, a step away from the fragile qubits currently in use. Get Jon’s thoughts about this “transistor for the quantum age”, potential applications for quantum computing, and why this marks an exciting future for data science and machine learning practitioners. Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/8 72 Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Email natalie@superdatascience.com for sponsorship information.…

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871: NoSQL Is Ideal for AI Applications, with MongoDB’s Richmond Alake 1:13:11

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Agentic AI, AI success strategies, and why flexibility will be so important to keep up with the AI market: Jon Krohn talks to Richmond Alake about the NoSQL database MongoDB, including why it’s a great addition to your toolkit for developing (agentic) AI applications, with a look under the hood at its native vector database. Richmond also talks about why he expects multi-agent AI architectures to go mainstream in 2025. Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/871 This episode is brought to you by the Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA and by ODSC , the Open Data Science Conference . Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Email natalie@superdatascience.com for sponsorship information. In this episode you will learn: (04:10) How Richmond became a Staff Developer Advocate (07:40) How NoSQL database differs from a relational database (16:50) The advantages of working with the cloud-based MongoDB Atlas (32:26) Richmond’s predictions for agentic AI (40:38) How to create an effective AI strategy…

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870: OpenAI’s “Deep Research”: Get Days of Human Work Done in Minutes 17:22

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In this Five-Minute Friday, Jon Krohn looks into what he considers the world’s most powerful research tool to date, OpenAI’s Deep Research. Find out how OpenAI trained Deep Research to compile literature reviews of limitless topics, what similar tools are on the market, and where Jon sees the tool as having real-world value including how he uses it daily. Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/870 Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Email natalie@superdatascience.com for sponsorship information.…

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869: AI Should Make Humans Wiser (But It Isn’t), with Varun Godbole 1:19:42

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Jon Krohn talks to Varun Godbole about AI prompt engineering, generative wisdom, and AI generalists in this episode all about the interrelationships between humans and AI. Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/869 This episode is brought to you by the Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA and by ODSC, the Open Data Science Conference . Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Email natalie@superdatascience.com for sponsorship information. In this episode you will learn: (10:44) Using deep learning to predict breast cancer (15:55) All about Varun’s Tuning Playbook (29:56) On the explosion of interest and news about AI and data science (46:35) About Varun’s Wise AI…

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868: In Case You Missed It in February 2025 26:31

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How to start a successful tech company, and how you can get started with DBT, TabPFN and BAML: Jon Krohn rounds up his favorite moments from February in this episode of “In Case You Missed It”. Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/868 Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Email natalie@superdatascience.com for sponsorship information.…

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867: LLMs and Agents Are Overhyped, with Dr. Andriy Burkov 1:33:12

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The realities of Agentic AI, AGI, and chatbots that don’t hallucinate: Andriy Burkov talks to Jon Krohn about AI in 2025. Best known for his concise machine learning modelling books, author and AI influencer Andriy Burkov also talks about his latest publication in the series, The Hundred-Page Language Learning Models Book. Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/867 This episode is brought to you by the Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA . Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Email natalie@superdatascience.com for sponsorship information. In this episode you will learn: (07:38) Andriy’s “triology” of books on machine learning (29:32) On the limitations of AI agents (41:12) On the prospect of artificial general intelligence (AGI) (54:24) On developing a chatbot that doesn’t hallucinate (01:10:07) On open-weight and open-source LLMs…

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866: Bringing Back Extinct Animals like the Woolly Mammoth and Dodo Bird 7:31

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Jon Krohn addresses a question for the ages: How close are we, really, to Jurassic Park? Dallas-based biotech company Colossal Biosciences is developing technology that aims to return previously extinct animals like the dodo and woolly mammoth to earth and, crucially, pull many others like the white rhino back from the brink of extinction. Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/866 Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Email natalie@superdatascience.com for sponsorship information.…

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865: How to Grow (and Sell) a Data Science Consultancy, with Cal Al-Dhubaib 53:50

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Jon Krohn talks to Cal Al-Dhubaib about the extraordinary success of AI and machine learning solutions provider Pandata, his ironclad hack for any company to define their core values, and how to attract and secure loyal clients. Cal thinks tech professionals make two critical mistakes in their careers: The first is that they too-often enjoy being the gatekeepers of their work rather than educating their clients and coworkers as to the details of their projects and why it benefits the company. The second is that tech professionals don’t show vulnerability, whether that means not knowing a topic or not fully understanding how a business works. This issue, Cal says, can spell the difference between a startup’s success and failure. Learn how tech startups can make an ironclad strategy for their future in this episode of The SuperDataScience Podcast. This episode is brought to you by ODSC , the Open Data Science Conference. Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Email natalie@superdatascience.com for sponsorship information. In this episode you will learn: (09:32) How to scale a successful data science consultancy (22:25) How Pandata navigates highly regulated environments (27:59) How to tackle tech illiteracy in business (36:32) What skills Cals looks for in new hires (35:56) How to sell on a tech company Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/865…

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864: OpenAI’s o3-mini: SOTA reasoning and exponentially cheaper 8:17

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Jon Krohn investigates OpenAI’s new release, o3-mini, in this five-minute Friday, where he walks through the reasoning model’s capabilities and performance, cross-examining them against other major-league players, DeepSeek-R1, GPT-4o and Claude 3.5 Sonnet. Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/864 Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Email natalie@superdatascience.com for sponsorship information.…

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863: TabPFN: Deep Learning for Tabular Data (That Actually Works!), with Prof. Frank Hutter 1:06:06

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Jon Krohn talks tabular data with Frank Hutter, Professor of Artificial Intelligence at Universität Freiburg in Germany. Despite the great steps that deep learning has made in analysing images, audio, and natural language, tabular data has remained its insurmountable obstacle. In this episode, Frank Hutter details the path he has found around this obstacle even with limited data by using a ground-breaking transformer architecture. Named TabPFN, this approach is vastly outperforming other architectures, as testified by a write up of TabPFN’s capabilities in Nature. Frank talks about his work on version 2 of TabPFN, the architecture’s cross-industry applicability, and how TabPFN is able to return accurate results with synthetic data. This episode is brought to you by ODSC , the Open Data Science Conference. Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Email natalie@superdatascience.com for sponsorship information. In this episode you will learn: (05:57) All about the TabPFN architecture (21:27) Use cases for Bayesian inference (35:07) On getting published in Nature (44:03) How TabPFN handles time series data (51:52) All about Prior Labs Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/863…

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862: In Case You Missed It in January 2025 31:51

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In this episode of “In Case You Missed It”, Jon Krohn shares his favorite clips from the last four weeks. He talks to Azeem Azhar, Florian Neukart, Kirill Eremenko, Hadelin de Ponteves, and Brooke Hopkins on what’s in store for AI in 2025, from quantum computing and customizable tools to handy checklists and how the mathematics of exponentials can help us keep our heads about the swift advancement of AI. Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/862 Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Email natalie@superdatascience.com for sponsorship information.…

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861: From Pro Athlete to Data Engineer: Colleen Fotsch’s Inspiring Journey 2:00:42

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