Gradient Descent - Podcast about AI and Data
Episodes
A History of NLP and Wisecube’s AI Journey
03 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Vishnu and Alex reflect on Wisecube’s 8-year journey and over 15 years of experience in AI and NLP. They discuss pioneering search ...
LLM Fine-Tuning: RLHF vs DPO and Beyond
13 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Gradient Descent, we explore two competing approaches to fine-tuning LLMs: Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback (RLHF) and Di...
The Future of Prompt Engineering: Prompts to Programs
29 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Explore the evolution of prompt engineering in this episode of Gradient Descent. Manual prompt tuning — slow, brittle, and hard to scale — is givi...
Agentic AI – Hype or the Next Step in AI Evolution?
12 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Let’s dive into Agentic AI, guided by the "Cognitive Architectures for Language Agents" (CoALA) paper. What defines an agentic system? How...
LLM as a Judge: Can AI Evaluate Itself?
22 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the second episode of Gradient Descent, Vishnu Vettrivel (CTO of Wisecube) and Alex Thomas (Principal Data Scientist) explore the innovative yet co...
AI Scaling Laws, DeepSeek’s Cost Efficiency & The Future of AI Training
06 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this first episode of Gradient Descent, hosts Vishnu Vettrivel (CTO of Wisecube AI) and Alex Thomas (Principal Data Scientist) discuss the rapid ev...