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Oscar Wahltinez

Oscar Wahltinez

Senior Developer Programs Engineer at Google

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Oscar Wahltinez is a Senior Developer Programs Engineer at Google, based in Australia, working on responsible AI and foundation models within developer relations. He has more than ten years of industry experience, including leading engineering teams at Google and shipping software to billions of users across Windows and Android. His work spans technical outreach and partnerships as well as computer vision and computational photography research, and he holds AI-related patents and publications through Google Research. On In The Blink Of AI, he discussed common myths about large language models, model size and responsible AI development.

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From Oscar Wahltinez (Google) on the Truth About LLMs, Model Size Myths & Responsible AI · In The Blink Of AI
Anybody that tells you they are an expert on this topic is probably lying, because this stuff didn't exist a year ago.
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  1. 2:14 Oscar’s Role at Google Why Responsible AI Matters
  2. 6:04 Hack of the Week: Using Gemini (and Oscar’s Honest Review)
  3. 10:07 How LLMs Really Work (and Why It’s Just Predicting the Next Word)
  4. 14:21 From Transformers to Emergent Behaviours: What Surprised Engineers
  5. 21:29 AI Leaderboards, Model Size the Case for Smaller Systems
  6. 28:40 Decoder vs Encoder Models: What You Actually Need to Know
  7. 33:15 How RAG Embeddings Power Real-World AI Products
  8. 36:41 What Is Responsible AI? And Why You Can’t Bolt It On Later
  9. 39:17 Building Responsibly on a Budget: Oscar’s Advice to Founders
  10. 43:46 Product Confession: Why Google Assistant Let Him Down

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In The Blink Of AI · 30 May 2025 Oscar Wahltinez (Google) on the Truth About LLMs, Model Size Myths & Responsible AI

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