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#76 - Richard Socher // CEO @ You.com

May 22, 2023

Richard Socher, CEO of You.com, discusses how AI will impact search, coding, digital marketing, jobs, and more. Topics include monetizing chat-based search, the evolution of MLOps, the future of programmers, the impact of AI on the job market, and the future of digital marketing in the age of AI. Richard also explores the uniqueness of You.com, the power of prompt engineering, infrastructure for a powerful search engine, and the future of language models. He reflects on his journey in AI and the importance of scaling language models.

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Quick takeaways

U.com is an AI search engine that offers chat-based search capabilities and aims to stay ahead of the competition by continuously innovating and launching new features.

As AI search engines gain popularity, the challenge of finding sustainable business models arises with U.com exploring monetization strategies such as private advertisements, subscription models, and offering APIs to developers.

While AI search engines like U.com have the potential to provide valuable and user-friendly search experiences, ensuring accuracy, avoiding bias, and improving transparency in AI-generated content remain important areas of focus.

Deep dives

The Rise of AI Search Engines

U.com is an AI search engine that leverages the latest AI technology to provide chat-based search capabilities. By using advanced language models, U.com allows users to generate images, write code, and perform various tasks directly within the search engine. The goal is to offer a more interactive and convenient search experience, where users can ask specific questions and receive direct answers from the AI models. U.com aims to stay ahead of the big players in the search engine industry by continuously innovating and launching new features before they do.

Introduction

3min

Richard Socher's Journey to You.com CEO

5min

The Journey with Metamind

6min

The Uniqueness of You.com and the Power of Prompt Engineering

4min

Infrastructure and Competition in Operating a Powerful Search Engine

2min

The Future of AI and its Impact on Jobs

28min

The Future of Language Models (LMs)

6min

The Time Machine and Reflecting on Large Language Modeling in AI

5min

How AI will impact search, coding, digital marketing, jobs and more

Get a handle on the latest developments in AI 🤩 in this CTO Podcast featuring Richard Socher, CEO of You.com (the world’s first AI- centric chat-based 💬 search engine). This is your opportunity to learn from the AI professor 🎓who co-authored the paper that introduced the term ‘prompt engineering’, created MetaMind 🧠(now powering Einstein at Salesforce) and pioneered many of the technologies everyone is hyping about today. But for Richard, its not hype. Its just the fusion of technology and business that he has been working on for years. Listen to discover:

How can chat-based search be monetised 💸?
How have MLOps evolved 🔄?
Will we still need programmers?
How will AI impact the job market?
What will happen to digital marketing in the age of AI?🤷
When will we reach AGI? ⏳ (hint: not as soon as you think)
+ Search Engines: From the current tech complexity to future forms.

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