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Yet Another Infra Podcast - Episode 9

Join Vitaly Gordon, Chase Roberts, Alex Clemmer, and Rajko Radovanović as they talk about the mistakes technical founders make when starting companies, the importance of the relationship between product and go-to-market strategy as a founder when creating a new category, and more. Follow them on Twitter: Vitaly Gordon - @vitalygordon Rajko Radovanović - @rajko_rad Alex Clemmer - @hausdorff_space Chase Roberts - @chsrbrts Links: Rajko’s Neural Ranking & Relevance Landscape Map - https://twitter.com/rajko_rad/status/1585043048752611328 Jerry Chen’s Unit of Value blog post - https://news.greylock.com/unit-of-value-a-framework-for-scaling-42c092fba887 Cornell paper on Efficient Estimation of Word Representations in Vector Space - https://arxiv.org/abs/1301.3781 Buildt blog post - https://www.buildt.ai/blog/viral-ripout Yet Another Infrastructure Group - https://www.yaig.dev/ Show Outline: 00:00 - Introduction 02:00 - The Role of a Founder in Building a New Category 05:00 - Open Source Technology and PLG Network Effects for Early Stage Startups 14:00 - The Relevance of Open Source in Machine Learning and Entrepreneurship 19:00 - Strategies for Cross-Learning and Going to Market in Machine Learning 22:00 - Exploring Vector Databases and Embeddings 26:00 - The Use of Vector Search in Industry 32:00 - The Benefits of Vector Search for Retrieval Augmented Generation 35:00 - Challenges of AI Creation 39:00 - Exploring the Risks of AI and Generative Technologies 52:00 - AI and Synthetic Biology and the Need for Guardrails 55:00 - The Ethical Implications of Leveraging Technology 57:00 - Positive and Negative Consequences of AI Technology