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Waymo’s Journey to Full Autonomy: AI Breakthroughs, Safety, and Scaling
No Priors: Artificial Intelligence | Technology | Startups
10/24/24 • 44 min
In this episode of No Priors, Dmitri Dolgov, Co-CEO of Waymo, joins Sarah and Elad to explore the evolution and advancements of Waymo's self-driving technology from its inception at Google to its current real-world deployment. Dmitri also shares insights into the technological breakthroughs and complexities of achieving full autonomy, the design innovations of Waymo’s sixth generation driverless cars, and the broader applications of Waymo’s advanced technology. They also discuss Waymo's strategic approach to scaling amidst regulation, deployment in cities like Phoenix and San Francisco, and the transformative potential of autonomous driving on car ownership and urban infrastructure.
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Shownotes:
00:00 Introduction
00:15 History of Self-Driving at Google
00:29 DARPA Challenges and Early Involvement
01:39 Formation of Waymo
01:53 Industry Lineage and Early Skepticism
03:05 Initial Goals and Milestones
4:33 Pivot to Full Autonomy
04:50 Scaling and Deployment
05:29 Generational Breakthroughs
06:59 Choosing Deployment Cities
09:26 Technological Advancements
11:01 Evaluating Safety
14:41 Regulatory Stance and Trust
16:52 Future of Autonomous Driving
23:19 Business Strategy and Partnerships
26:06 Changing Urban Mobility Trends
26:40 Challenges and Misconceptions in Self-Driving Timelines
28:43 The Role of Traditional OEMs in an Autonomous Future
30:54 Designing Cars for Autonomous Ride-Hailing
33:42 Scaling Responsibly
35:18 Generalizability and Future Applications of AI
37:10 The Complexity of Achieving Full Autonomy
42:58 The Importance of Data and Iteration in AI Development
46:13 Reflecting on the Journey and Future of Waymo
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Launching AI products with Braintrust’s CEO Ankur Goyal
No Priors: Artificial Intelligence | Technology | Startups
10/08/24 • 38 min
Today on No Priors, Elad is joined by Ankur Goyal, founder and CEO of Braintrust. Braintrust enables companies like Notion, Airtable, Instacart, Zapier, and Vercel to deploy AI solutions at scale by efficiently evaluating and managing complex, non-deterministic AI applications. Ankur shares his insights into emerging trends in the use of AI tooling and coding languages, the rise of open-source, and the future of data infrastructure. Ankur also reflects on building resilient AI products, his philosophy on coding as a CEO, and the importance of a startup’s initial customer base.
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Show Notes:
(0:00) Introduction
(0:38) Ankur’s path to Braintrust
(3:05) Braintrust’s solution
(5:46) AI tooling trends
(7:58) Instruction tuning vs. fine-tuning
(8:57) Open-source AI adoption
(10:42) Future of data infrastructure and synthetic data
(14:45) Designing technical interviews
(18:04) Rethinking agent-based approaches
(19:34) Building out an AI team
(23:35) Typescript as the language of AI
(25:12) The shift away from using frameworks
(26:02) Vendor consolidation among enterprises
(27:16) Coding as a CEO
(30:16) Collaborating with customers
(33:00) Future of Braintrust and evals
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Revolutionizing Customer Success with Agency’s Elias Torres
No Priors: Artificial Intelligence | Technology | Startups
12/19/24 • 31 min
Today on No Priors, Sarah sits down with Elias Torres, CEO and founder of Agency, an AI agent for customer success teams. Elias shares his journey from growing up in Nicaragua to founding several companies, leading engineering at HubSpot, and selling Drift for $1B. He also discusses his work consulting with OpenAI in 2022, which deepened his understanding of the business opportunity LLMs presented and inspired him to start Agency. In this episode, Elias offers a unique perspective on the future of AI and customer success, explaining how current software has fallen short and his vision for a new generation where customers have direct relationships, spend less time on tasks, and have software working invisibly on their behalf. They also discuss the evolving landscape of hiring as teams shrink, and Elias reveals his ambitious plan to reach $1B in revenue with fewer than 100 employees.
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Show notes:
0:00 Introduction
0:34 Elias’ journey to entrepreneurship
2:36 Growing HubSpot to IPO and founding Drift
6:19 Consulting with OpenAI, learning about LLMs, and diving into AI
9:35 Founding Agency to focus on customer success and AI-driven solutions
11:40 What will a customer experience look like in 5 years?
15:48 Company building in an era of AI, as a 5th time founder
18:32 Reducing headcount while raising the bar on hiring
20:35 Key challenges in building Agency and crafting a standout product
23:06 Addressing software flaws and transitioning to an era of intuitive, self-operating solutions
26:27 Timeline for the next-gen software revolution + the power of building from first principles
RAG is the key for smarter productivity tools with Notion CEO Ivan Zhao
No Priors: Artificial Intelligence | Technology | Startups
02/15/24 • 42 min
Notion is a productivity app that has invested heavily in AI to create products that enable workers to access information instantly without having to search through their own countless notes. Today on No Priors, Sarah and Elad are joined by Ivan Zhao, the co-founder and CEO of Notion, to talk about Notions Q&A interface and calendar applications. They also get into how using RAG models means better retrieval, longer memory, and the user can be less organized and how Notion is leading the charge in this era of SaaS bundling products.
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Show Notes:
(0:00) Introduction
(2:09) AI and Computing literacy
(5:39) Building the Notion AI team
(8:43) Notion as an application company
(12:09) Prioritizing AI investment
(14:53) The rapid evolution cycle of AI development
(17:46) Notion Q&A
(20:00) Workflow and AI for calendars
(22:43) Moving past the need for organization
(24:36) History of SaaS doesn’t repeat, it rhymes
(30:14) Design at Notion
(34:26) Notion office design
(36:52) How RAG will change the future
(38:30) Building our the software in the Notionscape
How the ARC Prize is democratizing the race to AGI with Mike Knoop from Zapier
No Priors: Artificial Intelligence | Technology | Startups
06/11/24 • 26 min
The first step in achieving AGI is nailing down a concise definition and Mike Knoop, the co-founder and Head of AI at Zapier, believes François Chollet got it right when he defined general intelligence as a system that can efficiently acquire new skills. This week on No Priors, Miked joins Elad to discuss ARC Prize which is a multi-million dollar non-profit public challenge that is looking for someone to beat the Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus (ARC) evaluation.
In this episode, they also get into why Mike thinks LLMs will not get us to AGI, how Zapier is incorporating AI into their products and the power of agents, and why it’s dangerous to regulate AGI before discovering its full potential.
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Show Notes:
(0:00) Introduction
(1:10) Redefining AGI
(2:16) Introducing ARC Prize
(3:08) Definition of AGI
(5:14) LLMs and AGI
(8:20) Promising techniques to developing AGI
(11:0) Sentience and intelligence
(13:51) Prize model vs investing
(16:28) Zapier AI innovations
(19:08) Economic value of agents
(21:48) Open source to achieve AGI
(24:20) Regulating AI and AGI
The argument for humanoid AI robots with Brett Adcock from Figure
No Priors: Artificial Intelligence | Technology | Startups
04/04/24 • 38 min
Humans are always doing work that is dull or dangerous. Brett Adcock, the founder and CEO of Figure AI, wants to build a fleet of robots that can do everything from work in a factory or warehouse to folding your laundry in the home. Today on No Priors, Sarah got the chance to talk with Brett about how a company that is only 21 months old has already built humanoid robots that not only walk the walk by performing tasks like item retrieval and making a cup of coffee but they also talk the talk through speech to speech reasoning.
In this episode, Brett and Sarah discuss why right now is the correct time to build a fleet of AI robots and how implementation in industrial settings will be a stepping stone into AI robots coming into the home. They also get into how Brett built a team of world class engineers, commercial partnerships with BMW and OpenAI that are accelerating their growth, and the plan to achieve social acceptance for AI robots.
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Show Notes:
(0:00) Brett’s background
(3:09) Figure AI Thesis
(5:51) The argument for humanoid robots
(7:36) Figure AI public demos
(12:38) Mitigating risk factors
(15:20) Designing the org chart and finding the team
(16:38) Deployment timeline
(20:41) Build vs buy and vertical integration
(23:04) Product management at Figure
(28:37) Corporate partnerships
(31:58) Humans at home
(33:38) Social acceptance
(35:41) AGI vs the robots
AI and the Future of Math, with DeepMind’s AlphaProof Team
No Priors: Artificial Intelligence | Technology | Startups
11/14/24 • 39 min
In this week’s episode of No Priors, Sarah and Elad sit down with the Google DeepMind team behind AlphaProof, Laurent Sartran, Rishi Mehta, and Thomas Hubert. AlphaProof is a new reinforcement learning-based system for formal math reasoning that recently reached a silver-medal standard in solving International Mathematical Olympiad problems. They dive deep into AI and its role in solving complex mathematical problems, featuring insights into AlphaProof and its capabilities. They cover its functionality, unique strengths in reasoning, and the challenges it faces as it scales. The conversation also explores the motivations behind AI in math, practical applications, and how verifiability and human input come into play within a reinforcement learning approach. The DeepMind team shares advice and future perspectives on where math and AI are headed.
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Show Notes:
0:00 Personal introductions
2:19 Achieving silver medal in IMO competition
3:52 How AlphaProof works
5:56 AlphaProof’s strengths within mathematical reasoning
8:56 Challenges in scaling AlphaProof
13:40 Why solve math?
17:50 Pursuing knowledge versus practical applications
21:30 Insights on verifying correctness within reinforcement learning
28:27 How AI could foster more collaboration among mathematicians
30:28 Surprising insights from AI proof generation
34:17 Future of math and AI: advice for math enthusiasts and researchers
Build AI products at on-AI companies with Emily Glassberg Sands from Stripe
No Priors: Artificial Intelligence | Technology | Startups
02/08/24 • 39 min
Many companies that are building AI products for their users are not primarily AI companies. Today on No Priors, Sarah and Elad are joined by Emily Glassberg Sands who is the Head of Information at Stripe. They talk about how Stripe prioritizes AI projects and builds these tools from the inside out. Stripe was an early adopter of utilizing LLMs to help their end user. Emily talks about how they decided it was time to meaningfully invest in AI given the trajectory of the industry and the wealth of information Stripe has access to. The company’s goal with utilizing AI is to empower non-technical users to code using natural language and for technical users to be able to work much quicker and in this episode she talks about how their Radar Assistant and Sigma Assistant achieve those goals.
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Show Notes:
(0:00) Background
(0:38) Emily’s role at Stripe
(2:31) Adopting early gen AI models
(4:44) Promoting internal usage of AI
(8:17) Applied ML accelerator teams
(10:36) Radar fraud assistant
(13:30) Sigma assistant
(14:32) How will AI affect Stripe in 3 years
(17:00) Knowing when it’s time to invest more fully in AI
(18:28) Deciding how to proliferate models
(22:04) Whitespace for fintechs employing AI
(25:41) Leveraging payments data for customers
(27:51) Labor economics and data
(30:10) Macro economic trends for strategic decisions
(32:54) How will AI impact education
(35:36) Unique needs of AI startups
Transforming Customer Service through Company Agents, with Sierra’s Bret Taylor
No Priors: Artificial Intelligence | Technology | Startups
09/19/24 • 48 min
Bret Taylor, Cofounder of Sierra, Chairman of the board at OpenAI, and former co-CEO of Salesforce and CTO of Facebook, joins Sarah and Elad in this week’s episode of No Priors. Bret discusses building company-branded AI agents with unique personalities, goals, and guardrails at Sierra, and their potential to revolutionize customer engagement while cutting costs. The conversation explores the next sectors for enterprise AI adoption, building resilient AI products, and the parallels between today’s AI market and the evolution of the cloud industry. Bret also shares his unique insights on future business models and upcoming technology shifts.
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Show Notes:
(0:00) Intro
(0:42) Defining agentic systems and types of agents
(3:55) Customer-facing company agents
(5:43) Sierra AI
(8:11) Transforming customer service and reducing costs
(9:57) Challenges in implementing LLMs for company agents
(14:45) Drawing parallels between AI and the cloud market’s evolution
(17:50) Future of the AI landscape
(19:15) Building durable AI products
(24:39) Outcome-based business models and tangible ROI in AI solutions
(29:22) Next wave of AI sectors for enterprise adoption
(31:15) Customizing goals and guardrails with customers
(35:55) Creating distinct personalities for Sierra's agents
(41:05) Bret’s insights on upcoming technology and hardware shifts
(46:50) How AI software could enhance human agency
Coding in Collaboration with AI with Sourcegraph CTO Beyang Liu
No Priors: Artificial Intelligence | Technology | Startups
01/18/24 • 46 min
Coding in collaboration with AI can reduce human toil in the software development process and lead to more accurate and less tedious work for coding teams. This week on No Priors, Sarah talked with Beyang Liu, the cofounder and CTO of Sourcegraph, which builds tools that help developers innovate faster. Their most recent launch was an AI coding assistant called Cody. Beyang has spent his entire career thinking about how humans can work in conjunction with AI to write better code.
Sarah and Beyang talk about how Sourcegraph is thinking about augmenting the coding process in a way that ensures accuracy and efficiency starting with robust and high-quality context. They also think about what the future of software development could look like in a world where AI can generate high-quality code on its own and where that leaves humans in the coding process.
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Show Notes:
(0:00) Beyang Liu’s experience
(0:52) Sourcegraph premise
(2:20) AI and finding flow
(4:18) Developing LLMs in code
(6:46) Cody explanation
(7:56) Unlocking AI code generation
(11:00) search architecture in LLMs
(16:02) Quality-assurance in data set
(18:03) Future of Cody
(22:48) Constraints in AI code generation
(30:28) Lessons from Beyang’s research days
(33:17) Benefits of small models
(35:49) Future of software development
(42:14) What skills will be valued down the line
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