Machine Learning Street Talk (MLST) Cohere co-founder Nick Frosst on building LLM apps for business
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Jun 16, 2024 
Nick Frosst, Co-founder of Cohere, previously at Google Brain alongside AI pioneer Geoff Hinton, shares insights on AI's future in business. He discusses Cohere's Command R models, which enhance language capabilities using retrieval augmented generation (RAG). Nick critiques the chase for AGI, emphasizing specialization in LLMs over generalization. He also touches on ethical data use in AI, the evolving role of software engineers in machine learning, and even gives a nod to his indie band, Good Kid, showcasing the intersection of creativity and technology.
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Meeting Cohere's Co-founders
- Nick Frosst met Aidan Gomez and Ivan Zhang at Google Brain, working with Geoff Hinton.
- Gomez was an intern working on the transformers paper.
Cohere's Focus
- Cohere focuses on practical business solutions using LLMs.
- They're not focused on Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) or theoretical pursuits.
AGI vs. Practical LLMs
- Frosst believes AGI, as envisioned, doesn't currently exist and isn't Cohere's goal.
- He's interested in LLMs solving real-world business problems, not theoretical AGI.