Generative AI in the Real World
Episodes
The Year in AI with Ksenia Se
11 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As the founder, editor, and lead writer of Turing Post, Ksenia Se spends her days peering into the emerging future of artificial intelligence. She jo...
The LLMOps Shift with Abi Aryan
01 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
MLOps is dead. Well, not really, but for many the job is evolving into LLMOps. In this episode, Abide AI founder and LLMOps author Abi Aryan joins B...
Laurence Moroney on AI at the Edge
26 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Laurence Moroney, director of AI at Arm, joins Ben Lorica to chat about the state of deep learning frameworks—and why you may be be...
Chris Butler on GenAI in Product Management
11 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Ben Lorica and Chris Butler, director of product operations for GitHub's Synapse team, chat about the experimentation Chris is do...
Context Engineering with Drew Breunig
20 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Ben Lorica and Drew Breunig, a strategist at the Overture Maps Foundation, talk all things context engineering: what’s working, whe...
Emmanuel Ameisen on LLM Interpretability
02 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Ben Lorica and Anthropic interpretability researcher Emmanuel Ameisen get into the work Emmanuel’s team has been doing to better un...
Understanding A2A with Heiko Hotz and Sokratis Kartakis
23 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Everyone is talking about agents: single agents and, increasingly, multi-agent systems. What kind of applications will we build with agents, and how w...
Faye Zhang on Using AI to Improve Discovery
23 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Ben Lorica and AI Engineer Faye Zhang talk about discoverability: how to use AI to build search and recommendation engines that actua...
Luke Wroblewski on When Databases Talk Agent-Speak
22 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Join Luke Wroblewski and Ben Lorica as they talk about the future of software development. What happens when we have databases that are designed to in...
Jay Alammar on Building AI for the Enterprise
19 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Jay Alammar, director and Engineering Fellow at Cohere, joins Ben Lorica to talk about building AI applications for the enterprise, using RAG effectiv...
Phillip Carter on Where Generative AI Meets Observability
18 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Phillip Carter, formerly of Honeycomb, and Ben Lorica talk about observability and AI—what observability means, how generative AI causes problems fo...
Raiza Martin on Building AI Applications for Audio
17 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Audio is being added to AI everywhere: both in multimodal models that can understand and generate audio and in applications that use audio for input. ...
Stefania Druga on Designing for the Next Generation
16 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How do you teach kids to use and build with AI? That’s what Stefania Druga works on. It’s important to be sensitive to their creativity, sense of ...
Douwe Kiela on Why RAG Isn’t Dead
15 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Join our host Ben Lorica and Douwe Kiela, cofounder of Contextual AI and author of the first paper on RAG, to find out why RAG remains as relevant as ...
Danielle Belgrave on Generative AI in Pharma and Medicine
12 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Join Danielle Belgrave and Ben Lorica for a discussion of AI in healthcare. Danielle is VP of AI and machine learning at GSK (formerly GlaxoSmithKline...
The Startup Opportunity with Gabriela de Queiroz
11 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ben Lorica and Gabriela de Queiroz, director of AI at Microsoft, talk about startups: specifically, AI startups. How do you get noticed? How do you ge...
Securing AI with Steve Wilson
10 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Join Steve Wilson and Ben Lorica for a discussion of AI security. We all know that AI brings new vulnerabilities into the software landscape. Steve an...
Shreya Shankar on AI for Corporate Data Processing
09 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Businesses have a lot of data—but most of that data is unstructured textual data: reports, catalogs, emails, notes, and much more. Without structure...
Vibe Coding with Steve Yegge
08 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ever since Andrej Karpathy first tweeted it, “vibe coding” has been on every software developer’s mind. Join Ben Lorica and Steve Yegge to find ...
Interactions Between Humans and AI with Rajeshwari Ganesan
05 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this edition of Generative AI in the Real World, Ben Lorica and Rajeshwari Ganesan talk about how to put generative AI in closer touch with human ...
Getting Beyond the Demo with Hamel Husain
04 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Ben Lorica and Hamel Husain talk about how to take the next steps with artificial intelligence. Developers don’t need to build thei...
Agents—The Next Step in AI with Shelby Heinecke
03 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Join Shelby Heinecke, senior research manager at Salesforce, and Ben Lorica as they talk about agents, AI models that can take action on behalf of the...
Measuring Skills with Kian Katanforoosh
02 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How do we measure skills in an age of AI? That question has an effect on everything from hiring to productive teamwork. Join Kian Katanforoosh, founde...
Chloé Messdaghi on AI Security, Policy, and Regulation
01 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Chloé Messdaghi and Ben Lorica discuss AI security—a subject of increasing importance as AI-driven applications roll out into the real world. There...
Tom Smoker on Getting Started with GraphRAG
29 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Join Ben Lorica and Tom Smoker for a discussion of GraphRAG, one of the hottest topics of the last few months. GraphRAG goes a step beyond RAG to make...
Robert Nishihara on AI and the Future of Data
28 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Robert Nishihara is one of the creators of Ray and cofounder of Anyscale, a platform for high-performance distributed data analysis and artificial int...
Getting Ahead of the Curve with Claire Vo
27 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Ben Lorica talks with Claire Vo, chief product officer at Launch Darkly and founder of ChatPRD. AI gives us a new set of tools that m...
The Future of Programming with Matt Welsh
26 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Join us for a conversation between Ben Lorica and Matt Welsh, cofounder of Fixie.ai, former engineer at Apple and Google, and one of Mark Zuckerberg’...
Kingsley Ndoh on Improving Cancer Care with AI
25 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What can AI do to improve healthcare? Kingsley Ndoh, founder of Hurone AI, talks with Ben Lorica about how Hurone is making cancer care more effective...
Putting AI in the Hands of Farmers with Rikin Gandhi
22 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Rikin Gandhi, CTO of Digital Green, talks with Ben Lorica about using generative AI to help farmers in developing countries become more productive. Fa...
Adopting AI in the Enterprise with Timothy Persons
21 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Timothy Persons of PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) talks with Ben Lorica about adoption of AI in the enterprise. They discuss the challenges enterprises ...
Learning How to Do AI Effectively with Alfred Spector
21 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Alfred Spector has been a leader in AI and machine learning at Google, IBM, and Two Sigma. He is now a visiting scholar at MIT, an advisor at Blacksto...
Andrew Ng on where AI is headed. It’s about agents.
19 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Andrew Ng is one of the pioneers of modern AI. He was Google Brain’s founding technical lead, Coursera’s founder, Baidu’s Chief Scientist, DeepL...
Democratizing AI with Gwendolyn Stripling
19 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Gwendolyn Stripling, author of Low-Code AI, talks about the democratization of AI, the primacy of data, the future of data science, and the coming of...
Competing in a Generative World with Justin Norman
15 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Justin Norman, author of Product Management for AI and co-founder of Vera, a startup focused on security for generative AI, talks with Ben Lorica ab...
Pete Warden on Running AI on Small Systems
14 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Pete Warden, founder of Useful Sensors and co-author of TinyML, discusses use cases for artificial intelligence that we rarely think about: how can y...
Chip Huyen on Finding Business Use Cases for Generative AI
13 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
O’Reilly’s Generative AI in the Enterprise survey reported that people have trouble coming up with appropriate enterprise use cases for AI. Why ...