Best John Webber Podcasts (2025)

This 331st episode features John Lester, an award winning singer-songwriter-bassist from the San Francisco Bay Area who has, throughout his career, had one foot in the folk/rock/acoustic music scene and the other in jazz and improvised music. John joins us for the full 2-hour show to talk about his musical journey and walk us through one of the mos…

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926: AI is Disrupting the Legal Industry: Are Paralegals Doomed? 4:47

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In this Five-Minute Friday, Jon Krohn explores how AI is reshaping the legal industry. He investigates how AI tools are helping lawyers make conclusions faster, how paralegals are being retrained, and the latest in-demand role in law (hint: It concerns AI). Listen to hear how Harvey AI and Thomson Reuters’ CoCounsel are using AI to help lawyers get…

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925: AI, Automation and the Future of Work, with Oxford’s Prof. Carl Benedikt Frey 1:10:06

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Tech innovation’s dependence on economic systems, trust in technology throughout history, and job displacement through AI: The Dieter Schwartz Associate Professor of AI and work at the University of Oxford, Carl Benedikt Frey, talks to Jon Krohn about his latest book, How Progress Ends, as well as how different economic systems deal with innovation…

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He Is the Seed of Promise- John 12:20-28 19:02

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924: 95% of Enterprise AI Projects Fail (Per MIT Research) 5:27

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MIT lab NANDA (“Networked AI Agents in Decentralized Architecture”) reveals less than promising results for the future of AI adoption in businesses. According to “The GenAI Divide: State of AI in Business 2025”, a whopping 95% of enterprise AI projects “are getting zero return” on their $30-40 billion investment. Jon Krohn takes this Five-Minute Fr…

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923: Graph Algorithms, GraphRAG and Causal Graphs, with Graph Guru Amy Hodler 1:03:47

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Graphs, but not as you would expect them: Graph analytics guru Amy Hodler speaks to Jon Krohn about the graph data structure and graph applications, graph algorithms, graph RAG, and graphs as memory systems for AI agents. We can use graphs in a surprising number of ways. Money laundering and fraud, as well as supply-chain crime, leave breadcrumbs a…

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When Love Comes to Town- John 3:14-21 26:37

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Hangover Sessions 330 Ft. A Farewell Device ~ September 14th 2025 2:00:01

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The 330th episode features Justin Vanegas under the guise of A Farewell Device, following on from the release of his new EP ~ Before Daylight, which came out in mid-August 2025. Tune in to hear Justin talking about all of his current/parallel music projects, life as an open mic host and so much more! Also, don't forget to follow A Farewell Device, …

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922: AI for Manufacturing and Industry, with Hugo Dozois-Caouette 28:29

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Hugo Dozois-Caouette speaks to Jon Krohn about his startup MaintainX and how he secured $254 million in venture capital, reaching a $2.5 billion valuation. MaintainX builds computerized maintenance management systems (CMMS) and enterprise asset management (EAM) software for industrial and manufacturing companies. This "digital clipboard" delivered …

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921: NPUs vs GPUs vs CPUs for Local AI Workloads, with Dell’s Ish Shah and Shirish Gupta 1:12:12

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Using Windows for AI development and the bleeding edge of NPUs: Shirish Gupta and Ish Shah from Dell Technologies speak to Jon Krohn about the latest products from Dell, the future of neural-processing units (NPUs), and how AI developers can make sound hardware investments. This episode is brought to you by the Trainium2, the latest AI chip from AW…

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Flipping Tables, Flipping Hearts- John 2:13-22 22:37

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920: In Case You Missed It in August 2025 21:57

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This month’s episode of In Case You Missed It gives us reasons to be cautiously optimistic about the future of large language models (LLMs), with guests discussing what to do about recent reports that found AI agents blackmailed human users when threatened, the importance of post-training LLMs, and the training we have available for data and AI eng…

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919: Hopes and Fears of AGI, with All-Time Bestselling ML Author Aurélien Géron 1:29:51

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PyTorch, AGI, and the future of alignment research: Aurélien Géron joins Jon Krohn in this live interview to talk about the fourth edition of his bestselling Hands-On Machine Learning as well as what superintelligence makes him hopeful for, as well as what concerns him about machines surpassing human intelligence. This episode is brought to you by …

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Losing to Gain- Mark 8:31-38 23:09

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Hangover Sessions 329 Ft. Sean Forth ~ August 31st 2025 2:00:00

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The 329th episode of Hangover Sessions features the talented Mr Sean Forth, who joins us after from the mystic Santa Cruz mountains! Sean Forth is a singer-songwriter from the Bay Area CA, who started his musical journey in 2014, forming the Oakland Ca. based garage rock-boogie band, "The Skookum Brothers" along side his three older brothers. Tune …

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918: Multi-Agent Systems with CrewAI 9:16

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In this Five-Minute Friday, Jon Krohn introduces listeners to CrewAI, an open-source Python framework that can create and manage multi-agent teams. The clue is in the title: CrewAI assembles specialized agents into single “crews” that achieve complex goals between them. CrewAI’s agent teams can also learn and iterate, meaning that after the crew ha…

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Bonus Episode- Focus for the Journey- Philippians 3:12-14 23:06

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Send us a text In this episode, you will hear the final message that I brought to our congregation on New Year's Eve in December of 2023. You will hear in my voice that I was a little under the weather, but God is faithful. I pray that this message will bring encouragement and focus for you in your walk with our saviour.…

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917: 8 Steps to Becoming an AI Engineer, with Kirill Eremenko 1:15:33

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Founder of SuperDataScience, Kirill Eremenko, talks to Jon Krohn about how he found the best tools and approaches to help launch his 8-week AI engineering bootcamp. He breaks down the topics participants cover each week, and he also shares his tips with listeners who might want to start their own tech bootcamp or sign up for SuperDataScience’s Sept…

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Bonus Episode- The Gift of Seeking and the Power of Discovery- Matthew 2:1-12 29:56

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Send us a text In this episode, we are going to take a trip back to one of the sermons that I preached in December of 2023. This really is a "Christmas Sermon", but very applicable in all seasons of life. I pray that God blesses and encourages you through this message.By Paul Burdine

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Fighting Temptation With the Truth- Luke 4:1-13 22:39

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916: The 5 Key GPT-5 Takeaways 9:40

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GPT-5 has just been released, but with not very much fanfare. In this Five-Minute Friday, Jon Krohn asks if GPT-5 deserves the community’s underwhelmed response to its release. He outlines five features of the model and explains why people might be feeling less than enthusiastic in the broader context of LLM development. Which LLMs are leading the …

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915: How to Jailbreak LLMs (and How to Prevent It), with Michelle Yi 1:09:33

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Tech leader, investor, and Generationship cofounder Michelle Yi talks to Jon Krohn about finding ways to trust and secure AI systems, the methods that hackers use to jailbreak code, and what users can do to build their own trustworthy AI systems. Learn all about “red teaming” and how tech teams can handle other key technical terms like data poisoni…

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Made In the Image of God- Dr. Chad Payne 26:17

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Hangover Sessions 328 Ft. The Tiny Musician ~ August 17th 2025 2:00:01

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This 328th episode features The Tiny Musician aka. Joana Carvalhas, who joins us for a full 2-hr session, intertwined with her desert island discs compilation and several of her unique originals (associated videos also below). Follow The Tiny Musician @ TheTinyMusician.com Instagram @The.Tiny.Musician YouTube @The.Tiny.Musician & More! Here are the…

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914: Data Lakes 101 (and Why They’re Key for AI Models), with Oz Katz 25:52

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In this Five-Minute Friday, Cofounder and CTO of lakeFS Oz Katz talks to Jon Krohn about data warehouses, data lakes, and how companies can handle increasingly complex data infrastructures and formats. Hear about lakeFS’s collaboration with Legofest, lakeFS’s approach to helping users collaborate on data lakes, and how to overcome the challenges of…

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913: LLM Pre-Training and Post-Training 101, with Julien Launay 1:15:16

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Julien Launay launched Adaptive to give data science teams in business enterprises their “RLOps tooling” to make reinforcement learning easier. Talking to Jon Krohn, Julien says, “Most of our users are data scientists who write Python codes to interface with the system”. Adaptive is also able to work with companies without data science teams, colla…

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912: In Case You Missed It in July 2025 32:38

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In this episode of In Case You Missed It, we look back on five great interview episodes from July. Hear from Lilith Bat-Leah (Episode 901), Sinan Ozdemir (Episode 903), Sebastian Gehrmann (Episode 905), Zohar Bronfman (Episode 907) and Robert Ness (Episode 909). They’ll tell you why data-centric machine learning is so important across disciplines, …

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911: The Future of Python Notebooks is Here, with Marimo’s Dr. Akshay Agrawal 58:20

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Reproducibility, Python notebooks, and data science communities: Software developer Akshay Agrawal speaks to Jon Krohn about Marimo, the next-generation computational notebook for Python, how he built and fostered a thriving community around the product, and what makes this notebook so versatile and accessible for users. Additional materials: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠…

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"A Quiver Full of Legacy"- Psalm 127:1-5 30:25

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Hangover Sessions 327 Ft. The Leafs ~ August 3rd 2025 2:00:01

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The 327th Hangover Sessions features a debut performance by The Leafs! The Leafs comprise 4 friendly fellas, going by the names of Donovan, Jason, Lliam & Michael, all but one of whom joined me in the barn studio to talk music and perform some originals and a cover song, LIVE. The Leafs are regulars on the SF band circuit, and I've had the fortune …

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910: AI is Disrupting Journalism: The Good, The Bad and The Opportunity 10:24

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In this Five-Minute Friday, Jon Krohn looks into AI’s disruption of the journalism industry and how it has fundamentally reshaped news production. Multiple news outlets’ suing of ChatGPT over its use of copyrighted materials may have taken the most headlines to date, but this isn’t to say news media is rebuffing AI entirely. On the contrary, severa…

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909: Causal AI, with Dr. Robert Usazuwa Ness 1:22:27

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Researcher at Microsoft Robert Usazuwa Ness talks to Jon Krohn about how to achieve causality in AI with correlation-based learning, the right libraries, and handling statistical inference. When dealing with causal AI, Robert notes how important it is to keep aware of variables in the data that may mislead us and force inaccurate assumptions. Not a…

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"Love Like You've Never Loved Before"- Matthew 5:43-48 30:37

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908: AI Agents Blackmail Humans 96% of the Time (Agentic Misalignment) 8:50

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The moral and ethical implications of letting AI take the wheel in business, as revealed by Anthropic: Jon Krohn looks into Anthropic’s latest research on how to use and deploy LLMs safely, specifically in business environments. The team designed scenarios to test the behavior of AI agents when given a goal and a set of obstacles to reach it. Those…

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Bonus Episode: From Cut to Called- Acts 2:37-41 32:40

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907: Neuroscience, AI and the Limitations of LLMs, with Dr. Zohar Bronfman 1:21:16

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“Intelligence has many forms,” says Zohar Bronfman, who speaks with Jon Krohn about the fascinating intersection between computational neuroscience and philosophy, and how it has brought him closer to understanding what is necessary to develop human-like intelligence in machines, as well as his motivations for launching Pecan AI and why predictive …

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"The EXTRA Mile Believer"- Matthew 5:38-42 28:11

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Hangover Sessions 326 Ft. David Colón ~ July 20th 2025 2:00:01

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The 326th Hangover Sessions features the return of the multi-talented Mr David Colón! Tune in to hear David talking about his adventures since we last chatted on the show almost a decade ago (when he lived in the SF Bay Area), including his new life in Seattle, a life-affirming post-burning man incident, several original song performances and of co…

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906: How Prof. Jason Corso Solved Computer Vision’s Data Problem 29:29

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Jason Corso speaks to Jon Krohn in this Five-Minute Friday all about Voxel51’s latest tool, Verified Auto-Labelling, and the company’s incredible success in developing popular tools for computer vision. Additional materials: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.superdatascience.com/906⁠ Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Email natalie@superdatascie…

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905: Why RAG Makes LLMs Less Safe (And How to Fix It), with Bloomberg’s Dr. Sebastian Gehrmann 57:49

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RAG LLMs are not safer: Sebastian Gehrmann speaks to Jon Krohn about his latest research into how retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) actually makes LLMs less safe, the three ‘H’s for gauging the effectivity and value of a RAG, and the custom guardrails and procedures we need to use to ensure our RAG is fit-for-purpose and secure. This is a great …

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"The Power of 'Yes' and 'No' in a World of Words"- Matthew 5:33-37 34:00

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904: A.I. is Disrupting the Entire Advertising Industry 9:14

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In this Five-Minute Friday, Jon Krohn reveals how AI is taking on the glitzy world of advertising. Bold claims from Meta and OpenAI contend that users will soon be able to plug in what they want and have AI churn out an ad campaign for little to no cost are shaking the advertising industry to its core. The fact that the four biggest sellers of ads …

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903: LLM Benchmarks Are Lying to You (And What to Do Instead), with Sinan Ozdemir 1:28:20

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Has AI benchmarking reached its limit, and what do we have to fill this gap? Sinan Ozdemir speaks to Jon Krohn about the lack of transparency in training data and the necessity of human-led quality assurance to detect AI hallucinations, when and why to be skeptical of AI benchmarks, and the future of benchmarking agentic and multimodal models. Addi…

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"But I Say- Jesus's Words About Divorce"- Matthew 5:31-32 29:31

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902: In Case You Missed It in June 2025 29:29

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In this episode of “In Case You Missed It”, Jon recaps his June interviews on The SuperDataScience Podcast. Hear from Diane Hare, Avery Smith, Kirill Eremenko, and Shaun Johnson as they talk about the best portfolios for AI practitioners, how to stand out in a saturated candidate market for AI roles, how to tell when an AI startup is going places, …

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Bonus Episode: "Lessons From A Criminal"- Luke 23:32-43 23:32

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Send us a text Important Note: Some of the insights and key points in this episode were inspired by Pastor Terry Anderson of Lilly Grove Missionary Baptist Church in Houston, TX, and his powerful sermon “The Theology of a Thief.” I’m grateful for his faithful preaching and the way his words continue to stir hearts and shape sermons—including this o…

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901: Automating Legal Work with Data-Centric ML (feat. Lilith Bat-Leah) 1:06:12

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Senior Director of AI Labs for Epiq Lilith Bat-Leah speaks to Jon Krohn about the ways AI have disrupted the legal industry using LLMs and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), as well as how the data-centric machine learning research movement (DMLR) is systematically improving data quality, and why that is so important. Additional materials: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠…

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"Lost In Lust, Found In Jesus"- Matthew 5:26-30 27:36

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900: 95-Year-Old Annie on How to Stay Healthy and Happy 15:06

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“Stay happy and healthy”: In this special Five-Minute Friday, Jon Krohn speaks with Annie, his grandmother, on her 95th birthday. Hear how she is physically and mentally coping with illnesses that limit her mobility and the joys of having a pet. Additional materials: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.superdatascience.com/900⁠⁠ Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience P…