In this episode, Nathan chats with Josh Albrecht, CTO of Imbue. They discuss how to create agents for reasoning, reliability, and robustness. If you need an ecommerce platform, check out our sponsor Shopify: https://shopify.com/cognitive for a $1/month trial period.
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(00:07:14) – What does it mean to be a research company?
(00:10:25) – How is the reasoning landscape these days and how might it evolve?
(00:11:03) – Data quality is highly important
(00:21:15) – What’s the difference between good features and a good world model?
(00:27:31) – The impact of new modalities on reasoning
(00:29:15) – How much can reasoning and knowledge be separated?
(00:45:13) – Imbue demo and are they building their own LLMs or using others?
(00:49:37) – Does Imbue have a deal with Nvidia?
(00:57:48) – Carbs framework
(01:12:57) – Imbue’s involvement with policy and and AI safety
(01:16:23) – Takeaways from AI Safety Summit and Biden’s Order
