Episode 22
Starting an Independent AI Research Lab with Josh Albrecht from Generally Intelligent
Josh Albrecht is the co-founder and CTO of Generally Intelligent, an independent research lab investigating the fundamentals of learning across humans and machines. Previously, he was the lead data architect at Addepar, CTO of CloudFab, and CTO of Sourceress, which Generally Intelligent is a pivot from.
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http://generallyintelligent.ai/
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Timestamps:
02:15 Introducing Josh Albrecht
03:30 How Josh got started in computer science
06:35 Josh's first two startup attempts
09:15 The tech behind Sourceress, an AI recruiting platform
16:10 Pivoting from Sourceress to Generally Intelligent, an AI research lab
23:50 How Josh defines "general intelligence"
28:35 Why Josh thinks self-supervised learning is the current most promising research area
36:15 Generally Intelligent's immediate research roadmap: BYOL, simulated environments
59:20 How Josh thinks about creating an optimal research environment
01:11:35 The "why" behind starting an independent research lab
01:13:30 AI alignment
01:17:00 Rapid fire questions
Links:
Bootstrap your own latent: A new approach to self-supervised Learning
Understanding self-supervised and contrastive learning with "Bootstrap Your Own Latent" (BYOL)
