Snipd: The AI Podcast App for Learning — with CEO Kevin Ben-Smith

Latent Space · Beginner ·🧠 Large Language Models ·1y ago
Every AI Podcast must eventually do an AI Podcast App episode. This is the one we've all come to use and love. free month of snipd and more in the show notes: https://www.latent.space/p/snipd Timestamps 00:00:03 Introduction and outdoor podcast recording setting in New York 00:01:07 Reflections on the AI Engineer Summit experience 00:03:23 Discussion about Zurich's tech ecosystem and ETH 00:05:03 Introduction to Snips - AI-powered podcast app 00:07:17 Introduction and outdoor podcast recording setup 00:10:48 Kevin's background in mathematics and transition to AI 00:15:33 Origin story of Snip…
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Chapters (27)

0:03 Introduction and outdoor podcast recording setting in New York
1:07 Reflections on the AI Engineer Summit experience
3:23 Discussion about Zurich's tech ecosystem and ETH
5:03 Introduction to Snips - AI-powered podcast app
7:17 Introduction and outdoor podcast recording setup
10:48 Kevin's background in mathematics and transition to AI
15:33 Origin story of Snips and team composition
18:18 AI Engineer Summit experience and key takeaways
20:55 Detailed overview of Snips features and functionality
21:18 Zurich as an AI and business hub
30:47 Introduction to Snipped: AI-powered podcast app
32:38 Technical discussion about speaker diarization challenges
40:12 Early vision of Snipped and evolution of its features
42:26 Chat interface and AI implementation challenges
46:19 Kevin's background in AI and transition from finance
51:08 Discussion about LLM costs and infrastructure choices
52:00 Founding Snipped and initial development journey
55:38 Future of multimodality in frontier models
56:38 Snipped's core features and AI integration
57:50 Future roadmap and vision for Snips
1:02:39 Technical challenges in AI transcription and diarization
1:08:13 Discussion about voice cloning and its implications
1:10:26 YouTube's role in podcasting and video strategy
1:12:01 LLM-based chat with podcast episodes and user experience
1:13:18 Creator tools and opportunities in podcast creation
1:14:46 Handling AI uncertainty and using LLMs as judges
1:16:45 Balancing closed AI models vs. self-hosted models

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