SE Radio 715: Sahaj Garg on Designing for Ambiguity in Human Input

SE Radio 715: Sahaj Garg on Designing for Ambiguity in Human Input

Sahaj Garg, co-founder and CTO of Wispr, a voice-to-text AI that turns speech into polished writing, talks with host Amey Ambade about designing systems for the ambiguity that's inherent in human input (text, voice, multimodal). Sahaj focuses on concrete architectural and training strategies for building robust AI systems. This episode examines the problem of ambiguity, where it shows up, building robust systems, personalization, communicating uncertainty, and evaluation. The conversation starts by exploring the difference between inherent and reducible ambiguity, major categories of ambiguity including lexical, syntactic, and pragmatic, and the additional sources of ambiguity in voice, such as homophones and accents. Garg details how to build systems through model training, including providing additional context and constructing datasets for good annotation. They discuss personalization with a focus on "revealed preferences"—learning from user behavior without explicit feedback—and fighting the problem of AI writing that "regresses to the mean." Finally, they consider how to communicate uncertainty to users without degrading the experience, as well as methods for evaluating ambiguity resolution through offline and online signals.

Avsnitt(723)

SE Radio 718: Will Sentance on JS Modernization

SE Radio 718: Will Sentance on JS Modernization

Will Sentance, educator and co-founder of Codesmith, joins SE Radio's Adi Narayan to discuss the evolution of JavaScript and modern best practices. They begin with JavaScript's origins as a simple scr...

29 Apr 58min

SE Radio 717: Eric Tschetter on Decoupling Observability

SE Radio 717: Eric Tschetter on Decoupling Observability

In this episode, host Amey Ambade sits with Eric Tschetter, co-founder of Apache Druid and Chief Architect at Imply, to dissect the critical move toward Decoupling Observability. To begin, they define...

23 Apr 1h

SE Radio 716: Martin Kleppmann Local-First Software

SE Radio 716: Martin Kleppmann Local-First Software

Martin Kleppmann, Associate Professor at the University of Cambridge and author of the best-selling O'Reilly book Designing Data-Intensive Applications, talks to host Adi Narayan about local-first col...

15 Apr 55min

SE Radio 714: Costa Alexoglou on Remote Pair Programming

SE Radio 714: Costa Alexoglou on Remote Pair Programming

Costa Alexoglou, co-founder of the open source Hopp pair-programming application, talks with host Brijesh Ammanath about remote pair programming. They start with a quick introduction to pair programmi...

1 Apr 51min

SE Radio 713: Héctor Ramón Jiménez on Building a GUI library in Rust

SE Radio 713: Héctor Ramón Jiménez on Building a GUI library in Rust

Héctor Ramón Jiménez, creator of iced, an Elm-inspired, cross-platform GUI toolkit for Rust, speaks with SE Radio host Gavin Henry about building a GUI library in Rust. Héctor discusses why he created...

25 Mars 59min

SE Radio 712: Dan Lorenc on Sigstore

SE Radio 712: Dan Lorenc on Sigstore

Dan Lorenc, co-founder and CEO of Chainguard, joins host Priyanka Raghavan to explore Sigstore and its role in securing the software supply chain. They unpack the challenges of supply chain security, ...

18 Mars 39min

SE Radio 711: Scott Hanselman on AI-Assisted Development Tools

SE Radio 711: Scott Hanselman on AI-Assisted Development Tools

Scott Hanselman, the VP of Developer Community at Microsoft, speaks with host Jeremy Jung about AI-assisted coding. They start by considering how the tools are a progression from syntax highlighting a...

11 Mars 1h 2min

Populärt inom Utbildning

historiepodden-se
rss-bara-en-till-om-missbruk-medberoende-2
det-skaver
nu-blir-det-historia
harrisons-dramatiska-historia
not-fanny-anymore
rss-viktmedicinpodden
johannes-hansen-podcast
allt-du-velat-veta
rss-foraldramotet-bring-lagercrantz
roda-vita-rosen
sektledare
i-vantan-pa-katastrofen
sa-in-i-sjalen
rss-max-tant-med-max-villman
rikatillsammans-om-privatekonomi-rikedom-i-livet
rss-sjalsligt-avkladd
rss-relationsrevolutionen
rss-dr-bjorklund
rss-npf-podden