20VC: Cohere's Chief AI Officer on Why Scaling Laws Will Continue | Whether You Can Buy Success in AI with Talent Acquisitions | The Future of Synthetic Data & What It Means for Models | Why AI Coding is Akin to Image Generation in 2015 with Joelle Pineau
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The scaling laws have been remarkably robust. There's a lot we don't know yet in terms of the vulnerability of these systems. If you don't need to buy the Galacticos, why do you have like an Andrew Tullock, a Daniel Gross, an Alex Wang, and the Galacticos assembling? If I gave you $10 billion, what would you spend it on first? Knowing what you know, what do you not let your children do?
This is 20 VC with me, Harry Stabbings, and today we have one of the leading minds in AI, Joelle Pinot, on the show. Joelle is the chief scientist at Cohere where she leads research on advancing large language models and practical AI systems. Before joining Cohere, she was VP of AI research at Meta, where she founded and led Meta's AI Montreal lab. Joelle is also a professor at McGill University and renowned for her pioneering work in reinforcement learning, robotics, and responsible AI development. But before we dive into the show today, are you drowning in AI tools, chat GPT for writing, notion for docs, Gmail for email, Slack for comms, and you're constantly copy-pasting between them all, losing context and losing time.
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