How Does AI2 Fit With a Non-Profit Research Institute?

Oren Etzioni was the founding CEO of the Allen Institute for AI, or AI2. He’s founded multiple companies that had successful exits, and he’s a professor emeritus at the University of Washington. 

Oren Etzioni and host Auren Hoffman discuss Oren’s criteria for artificial general intelligence and what signs he’s looking for to indicate that AGI is about to emerge. They talk about major issues in AI research right now, including the cost of compute, accessing data, and adversarial versus collaborative AI training methods.  

Oren shares how AI2 has been able to spin out so many successful companies and how he's found the balance between running a research organization and a business.   

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You can find Auren Hoffman on Twitter at @auren and Oren Etzioni on Twitter at @etzioni