Exploring AI's Pace of Evolution, AGI's Future, and Data Dominance with Adept CEO David Luan | E1855
This Week in Startups
Jason Calacanis
4.2 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 29 November 2023
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Today’s show:
Adept Co-Founder and CEO David Luan joins Jason to discuss his experience at OpenAI (2:45), demo Adept's AI-powered workflow builder (13:47), what facets of AI he is most excited about, what keeps him motivated (32:33), and more!
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Timestamps:
(0:00) Adept founder and CEO David Luan joins Jason.
(2:45) David's experience at OpenAI and the evolution of deep learning
(5:22) DALL-E origins and its "a-ha moment"
(9:24) The next great well of AI training data
(11:21) Brave - Try the Brave Search API at http://www.brave.com/jason
(12:35) Adept's Northstar since day one
(13:47) Demos: showcasing the power of Adept AI
(15:52) The next battlefield for AI
(18:34) A look into Adept AI Experiments – a sandbox for AI enthusiasts
(20:46) Arising Ventures - head to http://www.arisingventures.com/TWIST to learn more and connect with the team
(21:51) How Adept aims to streamline job processes
(24:54) Strategies to outperform large competitors
(31:13) LinkedIn Jobs - Post your first job for free at http://www.LinkedIn.com/TWIST
(32:33) What excites David about the future and motivates his daily efforts?
(36:29) The present and expected advancements in AI
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| 0:00.0 | How far away are we from a G. I turn on my computer in the morning. I go to work, you know, whatever I happen to name my assistant Joe and I say, |
| 0:09.1 | Hey Joe, what should I work on today? And Joe says, well, you know, looking at your email box, |
| 0:13.6 | there's seven companies that have acute issues in your portfolio. |
| 0:17.1 | And these three probably require a phone call. |
| 0:19.9 | These four, you probably need some more information |
| 0:21.9 | based on what I've learned so I'm going to send them |
| 0:24.3 | request for this information and then schedule them for tomorrow on Wednesday is that okay? |
| 0:29.0 | Boom and it just like kind of tells me what I'm doing for the next two days. |
| 0:32.3 | When will that happen? I was gonna ask you how you were gonna define. kind of tells me what I'm doing for the next two days. |
| 0:32.5 | When will that happen? |
| 0:33.6 | I was going to ask you how you're going to define AGI. |
| 0:35.7 | And if you define AGI by just what you said in that flow, |
| 0:39.0 | I think that we'll be at a spot where you would be able to get that |
| 0:42.1 | within the next one to two years but what would you trust the |
| 0:46.1 | recommendations this week in startups is brought to you by brave if you're building AI and search-based applications, train your models with the |
| 0:56.4 | Brave Search API. |
| 0:58.4 | Get started for free at brave.com slash Jason. |
| 1:02.2 | A Rising Ventures is a holding company that acquires tech |
| 1:05.2 | startups facing setbacks. A rising ventures knows what founders care |
| 1:09.5 | about because they aren't bankers, they're tech founders themselves. |
| 1:13.7 | Go to a rising ventures.com slash twist today to learn more and connect with the team. |
| 1:19.4 | And LinkedIn Jobs. |
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