The Data Exchange with Ben Lorica

349 episodes

Why Your AI Agent Isn't Ready to Ship (And How to Know When It Is)
2026/06/04 | 43 mins.
In this episode, host Ben Lorica sits down with Zhou Yu, associate professor of computer science at Columbia University and co-founder of Arklex AI.
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Why Foundation Models Haven’t Replaced Classical Machine Learning
2026/05/28 | 52 mins.
In this episode, Ben Lorica sits down with Doris Xin and Moustafa Abdelbaky, co-founders of Disarray, to discuss why classical machine learning models remain essential despite the rise of foundation models and LLMs.
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When "Garbage In, Garbage Out" Gets It Wrong
2026/05/21 | 43 mins.
Ben Lorica speaks with Terrence Lee-St. John, founder of Enli and lead author of From Garbage to Gold: A Data Architectural Theory of Predictive Robustness.
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As Code Generation Speeds Up, Who Tests the Output?
2026/05/14 | 43 mins.
In this episode, Ben Lorica talks with Evan Marshall, CTO of Ito AI, about why software testing and QA are becoming the critical bottleneck in the age of coding agents.
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The Gap Between AI Hype and Enterprise Reality
2026/05/07 | 56 mins.
In this episode, Ben Lorica talks with Richard Garris and Barry Dauber from Databricks, about what enterprises are actually struggling with as they move AI from demo to deployment.
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About The Data Exchange with Ben Lorica

A series of informal conversations with thought leaders, researchers, practitioners, and writers on a wide range of topics in technology, science, and of course big data, data science, artificial intelligence, and related applications. Anchored by Ben Lorica (@BigData), the Data Exchange also features a roundup of the most important stories from the worlds of data, machine learning and AI. Detailed show notes for each episode can be found on https://thedataexchange.media/ The Data Exchange podcast is a production of Gradient Flow [https://gradientflow.com/].

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