Emily Mackevicius is a co-founder and director of Basis, a nonprofit applied research organization focused on understanding and building intelligence while advancing society’s ability to solve intractable problems. Emily is a member of the Simons Society of Fellows, and a postdoc in the Aronov lab and the Center for Theoretical Neuroscience at Columbia’s Zuckerman Institute. Her research uncovers how complex cognitive behaviors are generated by networks of neurons through local interactions a...
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Emily Mackevicius is a co-founder and director of Basis, a nonprofit applied research organization focused on understanding and building intelligence while advancing society’s ability to solve intractable problems. Emily is a member of the Simons Society of Fellows, and a postdoc in the Aronov lab and the Center for Theoretical Neuroscience at Columbia’s Zuckerman Institute. Her research uncovers how complex cognitive behaviors are generated by networks of neurons through local interactions a...
The rise of synthetic data with Florian Hönicke from Jina AI
Knowledge Distillation with Helen Byrne
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1 year ago
The rise of synthetic data with Florian Hönicke from Jina AI
Data is the fuel that is powering the AI revolution - but what do we do when there's just not enough data to satisfy the insatiable appetite of new model training? In this episode, Florian Hönicke, Principal AI Engineer at Jina AI, discusses the use of LLMs to generate synthetic data to help solve the data bottleneck. He also addresses the potential risks associated with an over-reliance on synthetic data. German startup Jina AI is one of the many exciting companies coming out of Euro...
Knowledge Distillation with Helen Byrne
Emily Mackevicius is a co-founder and director of Basis, a nonprofit applied research organization focused on understanding and building intelligence while advancing society’s ability to solve intractable problems. Emily is a member of the Simons Society of Fellows, and a postdoc in the Aronov lab and the Center for Theoretical Neuroscience at Columbia’s Zuckerman Institute. Her research uncovers how complex cognitive behaviors are generated by networks of neurons through local interactions a...
