Thursday Nights in AI

Amjad Masad, CEO of Replit, discusses Replit's growth in the AI field, viral trends in programming, challenges of building a product with GPT-3, monetization strategies, Tesla's vertically integrated experience, and the future of coding with AI.

Outset Capital's Ali Rohde and Josh Albrecht interview Pilot CEO, Waseem Daher. Special thanks to Pilot for hosting us at their office! This fireside chat is part of our 'Thursday Nights in AI" series, co-hosted by Outset Capital and Generally Intelligent. Join our upcoming events! Full list here: https://www.outsetcapital.com/thursda... About Outset: Outset Capital is led by Ali Rohde, Kanjun Qiu, and Josh Albrecht — AI practitioners investing in AI, deeptech, and the future of work. We back companies at the outset, and love to be the first check in. About Generally Intelligent: Generally Intelligent is an AI research company building human-like general intelligence by evolving self-supervised architectures to tackle human developmental milestones of increasing complexity and we're hiring! Read Waseem's Substack, Startup Real Talk: https://waseem.substack.com/

Dropbox CEO Drew Houston discusses recent product launches like Dropbox Dash and Dropbox AI. They explore the journey from engineer to CEO, embracing automation and machine learning. The impact and potential of AI in innovation and the origins of Dropbox creation are also explored.

Notion AI lead Linus Lee discusses lessons learned from the product roll out, prompt engineering for different languages, optimal UI for AI, and his journey to working at Notion. Also covers challenges of conveying specific speech registers, limitations of chat interfaces, and evaluating performance of language models.

This past week, Jonathan Frankle joined our recurring “Thursday Night’s in AI” fireside series to discuss his role as Chief Scientist at MosaicML, the company’s recent acquisition by Databricks, and his candid thoughts on building LLMs, open source vs. closed, and AI policy development.

Aravind Srinivas, Founder of Perplexity AI, discusses combining LLMs with databases and search indexes to create a conversational answer engine. Topics include: journey to launching Perplexity, comparison to Bard and Chat GPT, preventing hallucinations in AI, and challenges of being a founder in a fast-paced environment.