S3 E6 AI Researcher and Entrepreneur Richard Socher: The David taking on Search Goliath Google

What's in this episode:

00:00:00 - Richard Socher
00:02:00 - sponsors: Index Ventures, Weights and Biases
00:02:57 - founding you.com, taking on Google
00:10:37 - the you.com search experience, multimodality
00:19:36 - action beyond text
00:20:25 - monetization, open-app platform
00:24:58 - ChatGPT, Code Red at Google
00:28:26 - from today to AGI
00:41:49 - early days of Deep Learning for NLP
00:56:16 - founding MetaMind, one of the very first Deep Learning companies
01:03:10 - acquisition by Salesforce
01:06:02 - highlights from Salesforce period: early LLMs, attention, DecaNLP, AI Economist, protein prediction
01:18:42 - early investments in Huggingface, Athelas, founding AIX Ventures
01:27:45 - emerging trends: more efficient drug trials, cow diet optimization to reduce emissions, tooling, recruiting,
01:31:46 - what Richard does to unwind and relax


Guest links:
https://www.socher.org/
  / richard_explore  
https://you.com/
https://www.aixventures.com/


Sponsor Links:
https://www.indexventures.com/
https://wandb.com

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Host: Pieter Abbeel -- https://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~pabbeel
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