On the latest episode of Unsupervised Learning, Jacob is joined by two of the most influential minds in AI today. 🔹 Noam Shazeer, co-inventor of the Transformer 🔹 Jack Rae, Research Director at DeepMind and one of the leads behind Gemini’s Flash Thinking We got to ask them all of the top-of-mind questions in AI today about where we are, where we’re headed and what it means for businesses and the world. Some key take-aways: (0:00) Intro (1:30) Exploring Gemini 2.0 (4:04) Challenges with Evals and Benchmarks (6:14) Reinforcement Loops and AI Productivity (8:15) Agentic Coding and AI in Development (13:02) Multimodal Capabilities and Applications (15:21) Future of AI: Complexity and Reliability (19:02) Test Time Compute and Data Efficiency (31:20) AI Research Culture and Breakthroughs (38:59) Reflecting on Large Language Models (39:37) The Rise of Vision-Based Models (41:01) Native Image Generation and General Purpose Models (41:35) AI in Healthcare and Specialized Models (43:32) Shifting Timelines and Rapid Adoption (46:48) Open Source Models and Competitive Edge (49:30) AI's Impact on Education and Personal Lives (55:10) AGI Risks and Safety Considerations (57:33) Future of AI Companions (1:02:17) Quickfire With your co-hosts: @jacobeffron - Partner at Redpoint, Former PM Flatiron Health @patrickachase - Partner at Redpoint, Former ML Engineer LinkedIn @ericabrescia - Former COO Github, Founder Bitnami (acq’d by VMWare) @jordan_segall - Partner at Redpoint
