Video course · 15 chapters · 57 min · certificate
Modern AI Evaluation Frameworks: A Fast-Paced Course
Learn how modern AI evals work: offline evals versus production, writing evals that are neither too easy nor too hard, moving from QA to task thinking, building agentic evals on real genetics problems, sampling, and finding the model ceiling.
What you'll learn
- Explain what an eval is and why it matters
- Write evals that avoid being too easy or too hard
- Move from QA benchmarks to task-based evals
- Build an agentic eval grounded in expertise
- Sample multiple runs and find the model ceiling
- Apply subject-matter expertise in product decisions
Chapters
15 chapters · 56:56-
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01Intro Members
Why evals matter now
Big tech is reinventing product work for AI, and evals are central.
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4:22
02Basics Members
What an eval is
Evals communicate product quality; offline evals versus shipping, and why they got more complex.
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3:02
03Method Members
Writing an eval
The mechanics: questions, expected answers and scoring; and why too-easy or too-hard evals fail.
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5:27
04Shift Members
From QA to task thinking
Old QA benchmarks are saturated; evals must test tasks, not trivia.
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3:17
05Build Members
Building an agentic eval
Building an agentic eval live, starting from deep understanding of the problem.
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4:22
06Case Members
The cystic fibrosis eval
An eval on the canonical cystic fibrosis mutation using the ClinVar database.
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4:21
07Run Members
Running the variant file eval
Running the eval on a variant file, deliberately without fully automating it.
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5:35
08Test Members
Testing the agent
Testing the agent on the disease case and interpreting its answers.
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3:00
09Case Members
Congenital heart disease eval
A harder eval based on a recent paper about digenic genetic disease.
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4:32
10Difficulty Members
A harder problem
Pushing models on harder questions: one disease or two abnormalities?
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3:31
11Method Members
Sample multiple times
Because outputs vary, run each eval several times.
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2:54
12Ceiling Members
Finding the model ceiling
Comparing models to find the ceiling, and deciding acceptable performance as a PM.
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2:57
13Expertise Members
It's all expertise
Evals depend on subject-matter expertise, not templates.
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2:58
14Career Members
PM at Meta versus Google
Differences between product management cultures at Meta and Google.
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3:57
15Wrap-up Members
Building a lab and closing
Starting an AI lab, and closing thoughts.
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