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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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Introduction

00:00 • 3min

Richard Socher's Journey to You.com CEO

02:31 • 5min

The Journey with Metamind

07:39 • 6min

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

14:04 • 4min

Infrastructure and Competition in Operating a Powerful Search Engine

18:31 • 2min

The Future of AI and its Impact on Jobs

20:53 • 28min

The Future of Language Models (LMs)

49:07 • 6min

The Time Machine and Reflecting on Large Language Modeling in AI

54:50 • 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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