Joelle Pineau is the Chief AI Officer at Cohere, where she leads research on advancing large language models and practical AI systems. Before joining Cohere, she was VP of AI Research at Meta, where she founded and led Meta AI's Montreal lab. A professor at McGill University, Joelle is renowned for her pioneering work in reinforcement learning, robotics, and responsible AI development. ----------------------------------------------- Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 01:16 How Meta Shaped How I Think About AI Research 02:22 Challenges in Reinforcement Learning 08:33 Is It Possible To Be Capital Efficient in AI 13:47 AI in Enterprise: Efficiency and Adoption 21:51 Security Concerns with AI Agents 28:06 Can Zuck Win By Buying The Superstars of AI 32:11 The Rising Cost of Data 36:38 Synthetic Data and Model Degradation 38:42 Why AI Coding is Akin to Image Generation in 2015 51:16 If Joelle Was a VC Where Would She Invest? 51:50 Quick-Fire Round: Lessons from Zuck, Biggest Mindset Shift -----------...