Solver Agent

12/11/23 • 41 min

Infinite Curiosity Pod with Prateek Joshi

Mark Gabel is the cofounder and CEO of Laredo Labs, where they are building an AI agent for software engineers. He was previously the Chief Scientist at Viv Labs and an assistant professor at University of Texas at Dallas.
In this episode, we cover a range of topics including:
- Current state of generative AI in software development
- Solver agent
- Characteristics of a good AI assistant
- Context awareness
- Tradeoff between ease of generation and software quality
- The role of programming languages
- Future of Generative AI in software engineering
Mark's favorite books:
- Gödel, Escher, Bach (Author: Douglas Hofstadter)
- On Food and Cooking (Author: Harold McGee)
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Where to find Prateek Joshi:
Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com
Website: https://prateekj.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19
Twitter: https://twitter.com/prateekvjoshi

Previous Episode

Multimodal Video Understanding

Jae Lee is the cofounder and CEO of Twelve Labs, where they are building video understanding infrastructure to help developers build programs that can see, hear, and understand the world. He was previously the Lead Data Scientist at the Ministry of National Defense in South Korea. He has a bachelors in computer science from UC Berkeley.
In this episode, we cover a range of topics including:
- What is multimodal video understanding
- State of play in multimodal video
- The founding of Twelve Labs
- The launch of Pegasus-1
- Four core principles: Efficient Long-form Video Processing, Multimodal Understanding, Video-native Embeddings, Deep Alignment between Video and Language Embeddings
- Differences between multimodal vs traditional video analysis
- In what ways can malicious actors misuse this technology?
- The future of multimodal video understanding
Jae's favorite books:
- Deep Learning (Authors: Ian Goodfellow, Yoshua Bengio, Aaron Courville)
- The Giving Tree (Author: Shel Silverstein)
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Where to find Prateek Joshi:
Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com
Website: https://prateekj.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19
Twitter: https://twitter.com/prateekvjoshi

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Biosimulation for Drug Development

Jo Varshney is the founder and CEO of VeriSIM Life, an AI-driven bio-simulation platform that enables pharmaceutical companies to accelerate drug development. She has a PhD in Comparative Oncology and Genomics.
In this episode, we cover a range of topics including:
- State of play in AI-powered drug discovery
- Why is it so difficult to know which drug candidates to pursue?
- The founding of VeriSIM Life
- Role of AI in drug formulation
- Role of AI in drug repurposing
- Role of AI in drug-drug interaction
- How does AI help in evaluating potential toxic effects of a drug candidate?
- What should ML developers know about biochemistry? And about biochemists?
- Determing the efficacy
- De Novo drug design
- Patient stratification
- The future of AI powered drug discovery
Jo's favorite book: Built to Last (Author: Jim Collins)
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Where to find Prateek Joshi:
Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com
Website: https://prateekj.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19
Twitter: https://twitter.com/prateekvjoshi

Infinite Curiosity Pod with Prateek Joshi - Solver Agent

Transcript

Prateek Joshi (00:01.495)
Mark, thank you so much for joining me today.
Mark Gabel (00:04.566)
Thanks for having me, Prateek.
Prateek Joshi (00:06.495)
Let's get right into it. Can you describe the current and the state of play of how generative AI is being used in software development?
Mark Gabel (00:19.786)
Yeah, yeah. It's a, I like to think that generative AI is a really, really nice match for software development right now. Cause you know, the task itself, you're synt