Super Data Science: ML & AI Podcast with Jon Krohn

917: 8 Steps to Becoming an AI Engineer, with Kirill Eremenko

Founder of SuperDataScience, Kirill Eremenko, talks to Jon Krohn about how he found the best tools and approaches to help launch his 8-week AI engineering bootcamp. He breaks down the topics participants cover each week, and he also shares his tips with listeners who might want to start their own tech bootcamp or sign up for SuperDataScience’s September 2025 cohort. This episode is brought to you by the Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA and by ODSC, the Open Data Science Conference Additional materials: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.superdatascience.com/917⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Email natalie@superdatascience.com for sponsorship information. In this episode you will learn: (10:58) Weeks 1-4 of the SuperDataScience bootcamp             (37:52) How to use AI to drive the bottom line in business                    (47:50) Weeks 5-8 of the SuperDataScience bootcamp (54:50) How to convert LLMs to agents (1:09:33) Jon’s feedback on the SuperDataSciencebootcamp    

916: The 5 Key GPT-5 Takeaways

GPT-5 has just been released, but with not very much fanfare. In this Five-Minute Friday, Jon Krohn asks if GPT-5 deserves the community’s underwhelmed response to its release. He outlines five features of the model and explains why people might be feeling less than enthusiastic in the broader context of LLM development. Which LLMs are leading the way, and which are still playing the game of catch-up? Additional materials: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.superdatascience.com/916⁠⁠⁠ Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Email natalie@superdatascience.com for sponsorship information.

915: How to Jailbreak LLMs (and How to Prevent It), with Michelle Yi

Tech leader, investor, and Generationship cofounder Michelle Yi talks to Jon Krohn about finding ways to trust and secure AI systems, the methods that hackers use to jailbreak code, and what users can do to build their own trustworthy AI systems. Learn all about “red teaming” and how tech teams can handle other key technical terms like data poisoning, prompt stealing, jailbreaking and slop squatting.  This episode is brought to you by ⁠Trainium2, the latest AI chip from AWS⁠ and by the ⁠Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA⁠. Additional materials: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.superdatascience.com/915⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Email natalie@superdatascience.com for sponsorship information. In this episode you will learn: (03:31) What “trustworthy AI” means      (31:15) How to build trustworthy AI systems  (46:55) About Michelle’s “sorry bench”   (48:13) How LLMs help construct causal graphs   (51:45) About Generationship 

914: Data Lakes 101 (and Why They’re Key for AI Models), with Oz Katz

In this Five-Minute Friday, Cofounder and CTO of lakeFS Oz Katz talks to Jon Krohn about data warehouses, data lakes, and how companies can handle increasingly complex data infrastructures and formats. Hear about lakeFS’s collaboration with Legofest, lakeFS’s approach to helping users collaborate on data lakes, and how to overcome the challenges of working with multimodal data. Additional materials: ⁠www.superdatascience.com/914⁠ This episode is brought to you by the ⁠Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA⁠.

913: LLM Pre-Training and Post-Training 101, with Julien Launay

Julien Launay launched Adaptive to give data science teams in business enterprises their “RLOps tooling” to make reinforcement learning easier. Talking to Jon Krohn, Julien says, “Most of our users are data scientists who write Python codes to interface with the system”. Adaptive is also able to work with companies without data science teams, collaborating with partners like Deloitte to add the necessary personnel. Julien is currently working on making his platform more widely available. Additional materials: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.superdatascience.com/913⁠⁠⁠ Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Email natalie@superdatascience.com for sponsorship information.