Infinite Curiosity Pod with Prateek Joshi

Guest Apoorv Agrawal, partner at Altimeter, discusses the rise of MANG VC, the impact of ChatGPT on investment strategies, the 'round trip' effect in investments, valuing AI businesses and market distortions. He also talks about raising capital from MANG VC and the future of AI in the next two years

Atif Rafiq is the cofounder and CEO of Ritual, a software app to speed up innovation and move ideas to action. He has held C-suite roles at McDonald's, Volvo, and MGM Resorts. He was previously the cofounder/CEO of Covigna, which is a content management software provider. He's the author of the book Decision Sprint, which was featured on the Wall Street Journal's bestseller list. (00:08) Defining the Future of Work(02:06) Skills for an AI-First Workplace(05:46) Evolution of Education Systems(08:24) Impact of AI on Skilled Professionals(10:30) Remote Work Effectiveness(12:47) Equipping Teams with AI Knowledge(15:46) Career Pivots towards AI(17:49) Practical Steps for Problem Solving(20:12) Value of AI Certifications(21:27) Introduction to Ritual(23:18) Surprising Discoveries with Ritual(26:17) The Future Workplace(29:09) Rapid Fire Round Atif's favorite book: Thinking, Fast and Slow (Author: Daniel Kahneman)--------Where to find Prateek Joshi: Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com Website: https://prateekj.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19 Twitter: https://twitter.com/prateekvjoshi 

Curtis Northcutt is the cofounder and CEO of Cleanlab, a data curation platform for LLMs. They have raised $30M in funding from Bain Capital Ventures, Menlo, Databricks, and TQ. He was previously the cofounder and CTO of ChipBrain. He has a PhD in Computer Science from MIT.(00:07) Data Curation in the Context of LLMs(01:14) Connection between Language Models and Computer Science(03:14) Importance of Data Curation for LLMs(04:06) Challenges in Data Curation for LLMs(06:09) Confident Learning and its Concept(09:42) CleanLab and its Role(12:42) Role of Open Source Datasets and Tooling(15:08) Balancing Data and Privacy in Regulated Industries(17:25) Feasibility of Federated Learning(20:35) Decentralized Compute and Aggregating Compute Clusters(25:19) Determining Model Size for Data Representation(27:09) Advice for ML Engineers in Handling Data Curation(30:20) Rapid Fire RoundCurtis's favorite book: The Bible (in the context of marketing)--------Where to find Prateek Joshi: Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com Website: https://prateekj.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19 Twitter: https://twitter.com/prateekvjoshi 

John Dulin, Founder and CEO of Modern Intelligence, discusses the state of AI in defense, the impact of AI on military tactics, real-time threat assessment, naval operations and maritime surveillance, startups and maritime technologies, naval dominance and global power, multi-intelligence in defense, the AI arms race, and the future of defense.

Talia Goldberg is a partner at Bessemer Venture Partners where she focuses on consumer internet, software, and AI. She became the youngest elected partner in firm history. Bessemer is a VC firm with a long and storied history with investments in companies like Twilio, Shopify, Pinterest, LinkedIn, Yelp, Twitch, and many more. In this episode, we cover a range of topics including: - Why is consumer the biggest beneficiary of AI - AI is generating massive consumer surplus - Why is RLHF only a secondary moat - Distribution tactics for consumer AI: virality via social proof, the Etsy effect, building for niche communities, standing on the shoulder of giants, "first order irrational, second order rational" - Conversion tactics for consumer AI: entertainment as conversion, community-driven conversion, gambling psychology - What does 2024 look like for AI startups and VCs Talia's favorite book: Poor Charlie's Almanack (Author: Charlie Munger)  --------Where to find Prateek Joshi: Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com Website: https://prateekj.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19 Twitter: https://twitter.com/prateekvjoshi 

Dan Caron is the founder and CEO of Health Universe, where they are building an open source collaboration platform for health AI. He was previously the founder and CTO of Dark Pilot. Prior to that, he was the founder and COO of RxREVU. In this episode, we cover a range of topics including: - State of play in Health AI - Why open source in Health AI - The founding of Health Universe - Potential risks of using open source in healthcare - Regulatory environment - Open source vs commercial healthcare - Impact of the open source approach on healthcare providers and global healthcare disparities - The future of open source in Health AI Dan's favorite book: Build (Author: Tony Fadell)--------Where to find Prateek Joshi: Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com Website: https://prateekj.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19 Twitter: https://twitter.com/prateekvjoshi 

Jo Varshney is the founder and CEO of VeriSIM Life, an AI-driven bio-simulation platform that enables pharmaceutical companies to accelerate drug development. She has a PhD in Comparative Oncology and Genomics.In this episode, we cover a range of topics including: - State of play in AI-powered drug discovery - Why is it so difficult to know which drug candidates to pursue? - The founding of VeriSIM Life - Role of AI in drug formulation - Role of AI in drug repurposing - Role of AI in drug-drug interaction - How does AI help in evaluating potential toxic effects of a drug candidate? - What should ML developers know about biochemistry? And about biochemists? - Determing the efficacy - De Novo drug design - Patient stratification - The future of AI powered drug discovery Jo's favorite book: Built to Last (Author: Jim Collins)--------Where to find Prateek Joshi: Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com Website: https://prateekj.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19 Twitter: https://twitter.com/prateekvjoshi 

Mark Gabel is the cofounder and CEO of Laredo Labs, where they are building an AI agent for software engineers. He was previously the Chief Scientist at Viv Labs and an assistant professor at University of Texas at Dallas. In this episode, we cover a range of topics including: - Current state of generative AI in software development - Solver agent - Characteristics of a good AI assistant - Context awareness - Tradeoff between ease of generation and software quality - The role of programming languages - Future of Generative AI in software engineering Mark's favorite books: - Gödel, Escher, Bach (Author: Douglas Hofstadter)- On Food and Cooking (Author: Harold McGee)--------Where to find Prateek Joshi: Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com Website: https://prateekj.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19 Twitter: https://twitter.com/prateekvjoshi 

Jae Lee is the cofounder and CEO of Twelve Labs, where they are building video understanding infrastructure to help developers build programs that can see, hear, and understand the world. He was previously the Lead Data Scientist at the Ministry of National Defense in South Korea. He has a bachelors in computer science from UC Berkeley. In this episode, we cover a range of topics including: - What is multimodal video understanding - State of play in multimodal video - The founding of Twelve Labs - The launch of Pegasus-1 - Four core principles: Efficient Long-form Video Processing, Multimodal Understanding, Video-native Embeddings, Deep Alignment between Video and Language Embeddings - Differences between multimodal vs traditional video analysis - In what ways can malicious actors misuse this technology? - The future of multimodal video understanding Jae's favorite books: - Deep Learning (Authors: Ian Goodfellow, Yoshua Bengio, Aaron Courville)- The Giving Tree (Author: Shel Silverstein)--------Where to find Prateek Joshi: Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com Website: https://prateekj.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19 Twitter: https://twitter.com/prateekvjoshi 

Max Grigorev has been building ML products for a long time. He has worked underwater autonomy and has spent time at Google, Airbnb, and Teralytics.  In this episode, we cover a range of topics including: - What is underwater autonomy - State of play in underwater robotics - Challenges of underwater operations - Differences between underwater vs land robotics - Unexplored opportunities in underwater autonomy - Regulatory hurdles - Future of underwater autonomy Max's favorite books: - Dune (Author: Frank Herbert)- Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning (Author: Christopher Bishop)--------Where to find Prateek Joshi: Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com Website: https://prateekj.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19 Twitter: https://twitter.com/prateekvjoshi