Home
Categories
EXPLORE
Comedy
Society & Culture
Religion & Spirituality
Education
True Crime
Business
Music
About Us
Contact Us
Copyright
© 2024 PodJoint
Loading...
0:00 / 0:00
Podjoint Logo
HN
Sign in

or

Don't have an account?
Sign up
Forgot password
https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Podcasts221/v4/1d/c4/71/1dc471ae-ad8d-fb0d-4297-a90fd1521718/mza_15023256996096014200.jpg/600x600bb.jpg
Manifold
Steve Hsu
142 episodes
3 days ago
Steve Hsu is Professor of Theoretical Physics and Computational Mathematics, Science, and Engineering at Michigan State University. Join him for wide-ranging conversations with leading writers, scientists, technologists, academics, entrepreneurs, investors, and more.
Show more...
Natural Sciences
Science,
Life Sciences
RSS
All content for Manifold is the property of Steve Hsu and is served directly from their servers with no modification, redirects, or rehosting. The podcast is not affiliated with or endorsed by Podjoint in any way.
Steve Hsu is Professor of Theoretical Physics and Computational Mathematics, Science, and Engineering at Michigan State University. Join him for wide-ranging conversations with leading writers, scientists, technologists, academics, entrepreneurs, investors, and more.
Show more...
Natural Sciences
Science,
Life Sciences
https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Podcasts221/v4/1d/c4/71/1dc471ae-ad8d-fb0d-4297-a90fd1521718/mza_15023256996096014200.jpg/600x600bb.jpg
Omar Shams: AI Founder and Google AI Agent Lead — #89
Manifold
1 hour 5 minutes
1 month ago
Omar Shams: AI Founder and Google AI Agent Lead — #89

Shams was trained in theoretical physics before becoming an AI engineer at DeepMind and founding the company Mutable, which was acquired by Google. He is now lead engineer for Google's software agent group.

Steve and Omar discuss:

  • (00:00) - Introduction
  • (01:18) - Journey from Physics to AI
  • (10:51) - Elon Tried to Buy DeepMind
  • (16:52) - Building Mutable and Auto Wiki as Context for LLMs
  • (33:39) - The Value of AI Talent and Meta's AI Hiring Spree
  • (42:58) - AI and The Workforce
  • (58:02) - The Intersection of Physics and AI

Music used with permission from Blade Runner Blues Livestream improvisation by State Azure.

–

Steve Hsu is Professor of Theoretical Physics and of Computational Mathematics, Science, and Engineering at Michigan State University. Previously, he was Senior Vice President for Research and Innovation at MSU and Director of the Institute of Theoretical Science at the University of Oregon. Hsu is a startup founder (SuperFocus.ai, SafeWeb, Genomic Prediction, Othram) and advisor to venture capital and other investment firms. He was educated at Caltech and Berkeley, was a Harvard Junior Fellow, and has held faculty positions at Yale, the University of Oregon, and MSU. Please send any questions or suggestions to manifold1podcast@gmail.com or Steve on X @hsu_steve.


Manifold
Steve Hsu is Professor of Theoretical Physics and Computational Mathematics, Science, and Engineering at Michigan State University. Join him for wide-ranging conversations with leading writers, scientists, technologists, academics, entrepreneurs, investors, and more.