Super Prompt: Generative AI
Examining generative AI—not to hype breakthroughs or warn of apocalypse, but to understand how things actually work. Mental models over hot takes. Technology specifics over marketing fog.
Welcome to Super Prompt. Hosted by Tony Wan, ex-Silicon Valley insider.
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Podcasting since 2022 • 30 episodes
Super Prompt: Generative AI
Latest Episodes
AI Agents at Work: Scaffold Required
We review four clips from the Dwarkesh Patel Podcast with Satya Nadella, Microsoft's CEO. I highly recommend Dwarkesh’s show—technical & nerdy, but excellent.Satya talks about scaffolding—the software wrapped around AI models to make...
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Season 2
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Whose Agent Is It Anyways?
Description:AI agents from OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic promise to act on your behalf—booking flights, handling tasks, making decisions. What kind of agency do these systems actually have? And whose interests are they serving?
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Season 2
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AI Safety: Constitutional AI vs Human Feedback
With great power comes great responsibility. How do leading AI companies implement safety and ethics as language models scale? OpenAI uses Model Spec combined with RLHF (Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback). Anthropic uses Constitutional...
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Season 1
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Episode 27
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Open Source LLMs: How Open Is "Open"?
Notable open source large language models from Meta, French AI company Mistral (valued at $2B), Microsoft, and Apple. Not all open source models are equally open—the restrictions and licensing constraints you need to know before deploying one. ...
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Season 1
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Episode 26
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13:28
Open Source AI: The Safety Debate
Why enterprises and entrepreneurs choose open source LLMs like Meta's Llama—cost-effectiveness, control, privacy, and security. The safety and ethics debate: which poses greater risk to humanity, open source or proprietary AI models? Both? Neit...
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Episode 25
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