Joelle Pineau is the chief AI officer at Cohere. Pineau joins Big Technology Podcast to discuss where the cutting edge of AI research is headed — and what it will take to move from impressive demos to reliable agents. Tune in to hear why memory, world models, and more efficient reasoning are emerging as the next big frontiers, plus what current approaches are missing. We also cover the “capability overhang” in enterprise AI, why consumer assistants still aren’t lighting the world on fire, what AI sovereignt ...

Do you have a theory as to how continual the continual learning problem can be solved and do you want to share it with us all. >> I can give you some clues. We are working very hard on it.Um we've done some work on you know I think the best work on this in the past with things like Alpha Zero you know that learned from scratch um versions of Alph Go Alph Go Zero also learned on top of the the knowledge it already had. So we've done it in much narrower domains. You know games are obviously a lot easier than ...

Google DeepMind's CEO says AI systems must master continual learning, memory, more efficient context windows, and better long-term reasoning and planning to get to AGI. ...

Lila Ibrahim is the COO of Google DeepMind. James Manyika is the senior Vice President for Research, Technology, and Society at Google. The two join Big Technology Podcast to discuss how Google's AI effort operates and runs experiments. In this conversation, we discuss the fundamental operating structure of DeepMind, how Google proper has become more experimental with the revival of Labs and other programs, and how the company is thinking about AI and education. We also cover weather and flood prediction at ...

Bret Taylor is the CEO of Sierra and chair of OpenAI's board. Taylor joins Big Technology Podcast to discuss how AI is reshaping software, from vibe coding to the rise of AI agents that will replace dashboards, forms, and the way we interact with technology. We also cover OpenAI's decision to introduce ads, whether AI progress is actually slowing down, and what Brett has learned from working with Sam Altman, Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, and Sheryl Sandberg. Hit play for an essential conversation on the futur ...

Ranjan Roy from Margins is back for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We cover: 1) What happened at Davos 2) OpenAI’s planned $50 billion funding round 3) Does the money set expectations too high for OpenAI? 4) Will OpenAI ever turn a profit? 5)) How many funding rounds does OpenAI have left? 6) Does OpenAI’s shrinking lead bode poorly for its inevitable IPO 7) OpenAI introduces ads to ChatGPT 8) Why is Google waiting to bring ads to Gemini? 9) Apple is building a wearable AI Pin 10) Wait, is A ...

Demis Hassabis is the CEO of Google DeepMind. Hassabis joins Big Technology Podcast to discuss where AI progress really stands, where the next breakthroughs might come from, and whether we’ve hit AGI already. Tune in for a deep discussion covering the latest in AI research, from continual learning to world models. We also dig into product, discussing Google’s big bet on AI glasses, its advertising plans, and Ai coding. We also cover what AI means for knowledge work and scientific discovery. Hit play for a w ...

What does the AI device of the future look like. Let's ask the CEO building the chips that will power it. That's coming up with Cristiano Aman right after this.Welcome to Big Technology Podcast, a show for Coolheaded and Nuance conversation of the tech world and beyond. We are here at Davos at the Qualcomm space and we have a great show for you today. We're going to talk about the future of the AI device. We're going to talk about what an AI PC is and whether anybody's going to want it. We're going to talk ...

As Google partners with Apple and unveils deeper personalization, is Gemini winning. Thinking Machine Labs, meanwhile, is falling apart. And Anthropic did it, releasing Claude code for non-coders.All that and more is coming up right after this. Welcome to Big Technology Podcast Friday edition, where we break down the news [music] in our traditional, coolheaded, and nuanced format. We have a great show for you today because Google and Apple finally came to a deal.They're going to fix Siri and has that catapu ...

What does the AI business look if all the leading models perform the same, which they kind of are, we'll find out with the CEO of Mistral right after this. Welcome to Big Technology Podcast, a show for Coolheaded and Nuance conversation of the tech world and beyond. We have a great show for you today. We're going to talk all about what's happening to the AI business and technology race as some of the leading foundational models start to look the same and how that changes the balance of power in the industry ...