Why Meta Wants To Build Artificial General Intelligence — With Joelle Pineau

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Alex Kantrowitz

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4.6 • 395 Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Joelle Pineau is the head of Meta's AI Research division. She joins Big Technology Podcast to discuss the company's recent proclamation that it intends to build Artificial General Intelligence, digging into how we get there and why it feels it must. In a wide-ranging discussion, we cover the latest research trends, the company's open-source practices, what actual products developers have been built with AI, video generation, and the reasons why NVIDIA chips are so in demand. Tune in for a deep dive into the world's most crucial technology from someone directing one of its most important research labs. --- Enjoying Big Technology Podcast? Please rate us five stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ in your podcast app of choice. For weekly updates on the show, sign up for the pod newsletter on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/6901970121829801984/ Questions? Feedback? Write to: [email protected]

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0:00.0	The head of META's AI Research Division joins us today to discuss the company's pursuit of human-level artificial intelligence, the cutting edge of AI, why it's open sourcing, its large language models, and plenty more in the only podcast interview the company is giving about its recent news.
0:18.6	All that and more coming up right after this.
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0:52.5	Welcome to Big Technology Podcast, a show for cool-headed, nuanced conversation of the tech world
0:59.3	and beyond. Boy, do we have a show for you today? We're recording to the minute on Wednesday
1:03.9	here right before we drop this episode because there's breaking news coming out of meta,
1:08.5	all about the moves that they're making with their AI division, their pursuit of human level intelligence.
1:14.2	We have none other than Joe L. Pino here to talk to us about it.
1:17.8	She's the head of META's AI research division, formerly called Fair.
1:21.6	Now I guess it's called Mayor and...
1:24.6	Still Fair, Fundamental AI Research. We love the name. Okay, well, keep it fair. Keep AI research. We love the name.
1:28.5	Okay, well, keep it fair. Keep it running. We spoke actually in October 2020 before chat GPT.
1:35.7	So this is going to be a really cool moment to talk a little bit about where we've come from there and where we're going. Joel, welcome to the show. Great to see you.
1:43.0	Thank you, Alex. Great to be here.
1:45.7	So if you recall, in October 2020, and we spoke a couple times at the World Summit AI, one of the, it's
1:53.8	kind of funny because like the big storyline then was whether AI is sentient. And this was kind of a moment
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