Joelle Pineau is the Chief AI Officer at Cohere, where she leads research on advancing large language models and practical AI systems. Before joining Cohere, she was VP of AI Research at Meta, where she founded and led Meta AI’s Montreal lab. A professor at McGill University, Joelle is renowned for her pioneering work in reinforcement learning, robotics, and responsible AI development.
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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
01:16 How Meta Shaped How I Think About AI Research
02:22 Challenges in Reinforcement Learning
08:33 Is It Possible To Be Capital Efficient in AI
13:47 AI in Enterprise: Efficiency and Adoption
21:51 Security Concerns with AI Agents
28:06 Can Zuck Win By Buying The Superstars of AI
32:11 The Rising Cost of Data
36:38 Synthetic Data and Model Degradation
38:42 Why AI Coding is Akin to Image Generation in 2015
51:16 If Joelle Was a VC Where Would She Invest?
51:50 Quick-Fire Round: Lessons from Zuck, Biggest Mindset Shift
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