No Priors: Artificial Intelligence | Technology | Startups
Conviction
126 episodes
1 week ago
At this moment of inflection in technology, co-hosts Elad Gil and Sarah Guo talk to the world's leading AI engineers, researchers and founders about the biggest questions: How far away is AGI? What markets are at risk for disruption? How will commerce, culture, and society change? What’s happening in state-of-the-art in research? “No Priors” is your guide to the AI revolution. Email feedback to show@no-priors.com.
Sarah Guo is a startup investor and the founder of Conviction, an investment firm purpose-built to serve intelligent software, or "Software 3.0" companies. She spent nearly a decade incubating and investing at venture firm Greylock Partners.
Elad Gil is a serial entrepreneur and a startup investor. He was co-founder of Color Health, Mixer Labs (which was acquired by Twitter). He has invested in over 40 companies now worth $1B or more each, and is also author of the High Growth Handbook.
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At this moment of inflection in technology, co-hosts Elad Gil and Sarah Guo talk to the world's leading AI engineers, researchers and founders about the biggest questions: How far away is AGI? What markets are at risk for disruption? How will commerce, culture, and society change? What’s happening in state-of-the-art in research? “No Priors” is your guide to the AI revolution. Email feedback to show@no-priors.com.
Sarah Guo is a startup investor and the founder of Conviction, an investment firm purpose-built to serve intelligent software, or "Software 3.0" companies. She spent nearly a decade incubating and investing at venture firm Greylock Partners.
Elad Gil is a serial entrepreneur and a startup investor. He was co-founder of Color Health, Mixer Labs (which was acquired by Twitter). He has invested in over 40 companies now worth $1B or more each, and is also author of the High Growth Handbook.
Asimov: Building An Omniscient RL Oracle with ReflectionAI’s Misha Laskin
No Priors: Artificial Intelligence | Technology | Startups
1 hour 2 minutes
3 weeks ago
Asimov: Building An Omniscient RL Oracle with ReflectionAI’s Misha Laskin
Superintelligence, at least in an academic sense, has already been achieved. But Misha Laskin thinks that the next step towards artificial superintelligence, or ASI, should look both more user and problem-focused. ReflectionAI co-founder and CEO Misha Laskin joins Sarah Guo to introduce Asimov, their new code comprehension agent built on reinforcement learning (RL). Misha talks about creating tools and designing AI agents based on customer needs, and how that influences eval development and the scope of the agent’s memory. The two also discuss the challenges in solving scaling for RL, the future of ASI, and the implications for Google’s “non-acquisition” of Windsurf.
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Chapters:
00:00 – Misha Laskin Introduction
00:44 – Superintelligence vs. Super Intelligent Autonomous Systems
03:26 – Misha’s Journey from Physics to AI
07:48 – Asimov Product Release
11:52 – What Differentiates Asimov from Other Agents
16:15 – Asimov’s Eval Philosophy
21:52 – The Types of Queries Where Asimov Shines
24:35 – Designing a Team-Wide Memory for Asimov
28:38 – Leveraging Pre-Trained Models
32:47 – The Challenges of Solving Scaling in RL
37:21 – Training Agents in Copycat Software Environments
38:25 – When Will We See ASI?
44:27 – Thoughts on Windsurf’s Non-Acquisition
48:10 – Exploring Non-RL Datasets
55:12 – Tackling Problems Beyond Engineering and Coding
57:54 – Where We’re At in Deploying ASI in Different Fields
01:02:30 – Conclusion
No Priors: Artificial Intelligence | Technology | Startups
At this moment of inflection in technology, co-hosts Elad Gil and Sarah Guo talk to the world's leading AI engineers, researchers and founders about the biggest questions: How far away is AGI? What markets are at risk for disruption? How will commerce, culture, and society change? What’s happening in state-of-the-art in research? “No Priors” is your guide to the AI revolution. Email feedback to show@no-priors.com.
Sarah Guo is a startup investor and the founder of Conviction, an investment firm purpose-built to serve intelligent software, or "Software 3.0" companies. She spent nearly a decade incubating and investing at venture firm Greylock Partners.
Elad Gil is a serial entrepreneur and a startup investor. He was co-founder of Color Health, Mixer Labs (which was acquired by Twitter). He has invested in over 40 companies now worth $1B or more each, and is also author of the High Growth Handbook.
