Sat down with Katie Bakewell, a data scientist who's been building this since 2011, back when it was still just called "natural language processing" 🧮
She came up through math (DNA computing, time series on commodities) and thinks about problems like proofs, not recipes.
What we get into: 🪨 The Indiana Jones "build me a chatbot" boulder she ran from in 2023 🚨 The 7 neural nets that "found" a signal that was completely fake 🏎️ A $5M Pagani vs a $100 Toyota, and why "best" is a trap 🤖 The first chatbot was built in 1966 (ELIZA)... these aren't new ideas 🐬 Meta's SAM3 turning hours of labeling dolphin fins into a single prompt 🧠 Why half the companies asking for AI are solving the wrong problem
▶️ Go watch
💬 Then drop a comment:
What surprised you most, or what would you have asked her?
Happy learning 🙌