The State of AI with Stanford Researcher Yifan Mai (Podcast #149)

On this week's episode of the podcast, I interview Yifan Mai, a Senior Software Engineer on Google's TensorFlow team who left the private sector to go do AI research at Stanford.

He's the lead maintainer of the open source HELM project, where he benchmarks the performance of Large Language Models.

We talk about:

• Open Source VS Open Weights in LLMs

• The Ragged Frontier of LLM use cases

• AI impact on jobs and our predictions

• What to learn so you can stay above the waterline

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Links we talk about during our conversation:

• Yifan's personal website: yifanmai.com

• HELM Leaderboards: https://crfm.stanford.edu/helm/

• HELM GitHub Repository: https://github.com/stanford-crfm/helm

• Stanford HAI Blog: https://crfm.stanford.edu/helm/