845: Tech is Our New Religion And It Needs Reformation, with Greg Epstein

Super Data Science: ML & AI Podcast with Jon Krohn

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Discover how technology has become the modern belief system shaping our world. Greg Epstein, author of Tech Agnostic: How Technology Became the World's Most Powerful Religion, and Why It Desperately Needs a Reformation, draws striking parallels between tech culture and traditional faiths. From AI's "singularity" echoing prophetic narratives to Silicon Valley’s promises of salvation through innovation, Greg uncovers the profound influence of technology on our lives. He challenges us to rethink blind faith in progress, focus on genuine human connection, and navigate a future where ethics and empathy guide innovation.

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

In this episode you will learn:

(08:30) How can someone cultivate connection without religion?
(15:49) Social media as a new form of community
(17:00) Tech's transformation into a religion
(56:08) How to set boundaries with tech
(01:01:32) The singularity as a religious narrative
(01:19:53) Transhumanism and effective altruism as tech cults
(01:15:00) Defining tech agnosticism
(01:26:55) Prioritizing human connection in a tech-driven world

Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/845

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845: Tech is Our New Religion And It Needs Reformation, with Greg Epstein

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:

(08:30) How can someone cultivate connection without religion?
(15:49) Social media as a new form of community
(17:00) Tech's transformation into a religion
(56:08) How to set boundaries with tech
(01:01:32) The singularity as a religious narrative
(01:19:53) Transhumanism and effective altruism as tech cults
(01:15:00) Defining tech agnosticism
(01:26:55) Prioritizing human connection in a tech-driven world

Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/845

956 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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878: In Case You Missed It in March 2025 30:49

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AI stacks, AGI, training neural networks, and AI authenticity: Jon Krohn rounds up his interviews from March with this episode of “In Case You Missed It”. In his favorite clips from the month, he speaks to Andriy Burkov (Episode 867), Natalie Monbiot (Episode 873), Richmond Alake (Episode 871) and Varun Godbole (Episode 869). Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/878 Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Email natalie@superdatascience.com for sponsorship information.…

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877: The Neural Processing Units Bringing AI to PCs, with Shirish Gupta 1:09:32

hace 4 días1:09:32

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NPUs, AIPC, and Dell’s growing suite of AI products: Shirish Gupta speaks to Jon Krohn about neural processing units and what makes them a go-to tool for AI inference workloads, reasons to move your workloads from the cloud and to your local devices, what the mnemonic AIPC stands for and why it will soon be on everyone’s lips, and he offers a special intro to Dell’s new Pro-AI Studio Toolkit. Hear about several real-world AIPC applications run by Dell’s clients, from detecting manufacturing defects to improving efficiencies for first responders, massively supporting actual life-or-death situations. Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/877 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: (03:28) What neural processing units (NPUs) are (23:53) About Dell Pro AI Studio (35:03) Use cases for Dell Pro AI Studio (45:16) How AI development workflows and applications will change (49:01) About Dell’s AI factory ecosystem…

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876: Hugging Face’s smolagents: Agentic AI in Python Made Easy 15:11

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Small, simple, accessible: Hugging Face makes a huge contribution to the agentic AI wave with its smolagents. Jon Krohn explores how this small-but-mighty new Python library can act as the best personal assistant you never had. Hear about its features and use cases in this five-minute Friday. Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/876 Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Email natalie@superdatascience.com for sponsorship information.…

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

hace 11 días1:10:29

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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

hace 15 días14:27

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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

hace 22 días12:20

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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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