In The Blink Of AI with Georgie Healy 
About Oscar Wahltinez
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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Key moments from Oscar Wahltinez (Google) on the Truth About LLMs, Model Size Myths & Responsible AI.
- 2:14Oscar’s Role at Google & Why Responsible AI Matters
- 6:04Hack of the Week: Using Gemini (and Oscar’s Honest Review)
- 10:07How LLMs Really Work (and Why It’s Just Predicting the Next Word)
- 14:21From Transformers to Emergent Behaviours: What Surprised Engineers
- 21:29AI Leaderboards, Model Size & the Case for Smaller Systems
- 28:40Decoder vs Encoder Models: What You Actually Need to Know
- 33:15How RAG & Embeddings Power Real-World AI Products
- 36:41What Is Responsible AI? And Why You Can’t Bolt It On Later
- 39:17Building Responsibly on a Budget: Oscar’s Advice to Founders
- 43:46Product Confession: Oscar on Google Assistant
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“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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