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EP25: Personalization, Data, and the Chaos of Fine-Tuning with Fred Sala (UW-Madison / Snorkel AI)
Fred Sala, Assistant Professor at UW-Madison and Chief Scientist at Snorkel AI, joins us to talk about why personalization might be the next frontier for LLMs, why data still matters more than architecture, and how weak supervision refuses to die.
Fred sits at a rare intersection, building the theory of data-centric AI in academia while shipping it to enterprise clients at Snorkel. We talk about the chaos of OpenClaw (the personal AI assistant that's getting people hacked the old-fashioned way, via open ports), then focus on one of the most important questions: how do you make a model truly…
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