"The Cognitive Revolution"

The AI Email Assistant I've Been Waiting for, with Andrew Lee of Shortwave

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Mar 13, 2024
The podcast discusses the innovative AI technology behind Shortwave, focusing on the AI assistant for efficient email management. They dive into the challenges and solutions in PG vector databases, optimizing AI email assistants, enhancing model security, and future interaction methods. The conversation also explores startup strategy and the benefits of AI email assistants for boosting productivity.
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ANECDOTE

Start of Shortwave & AI Pivot

  • Andrew Lee started Shortwave before AI was central, motivated by privacy and legacy email frustrations.
  • He pivoted from collaboration to enhancing individual email experience using AI for better search and drafting.
INSIGHT

Balancing Embeddings & Cost

  • Storing millions of emails cheaply requires balancing embedding model size and search frequency.
  • Shortwave uses medium-sized embeddings and overfetches search results to trade-off cost and performance.
ANECDOTE

Fine-Tuning GPT-3.5 With Email Data

  • Shortwave fine-tuned GPT-3.5 with their own emails, removing sections to train proper email completion.
  • This improved formatting consistency and helped AI write better emails in the user's voice.
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