Jerome Pesenti is the former VP of AI at Meta, a tech conglomerate that includes Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram, and one of the most exciting places where AI research is happening today.
Jerome shares his thoughts on Transformers-based large language models, and why he's excited by the progress but skeptical of the term "AGI". Then, he discusses some of the practical applications of ML at Meta (recommender systems and moderation!) and dives into the story behind Meta's development of PyTorch. Jerome and Lukas also chat about Jerome's time at IBM Watson and in drug discovery.
Show notes (transcript and links): http://wandb.me/gd-jerome-pesenti
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⏳ Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
0:28 Jerome's thought on large language models
12:53 AI applications and challenges at Meta
18:41 The story behind developing PyTorch
26:40 Jerome's experience at IBM Watson
28:53 Drug discovery, AI, and changing the game
36:10 The potential of education and AI
40:10 Meta and AR/VR interfaces
43:43 Why NVIDIA is such a powerhouse
47:08 Jerome's advice to people starting their careers
48:50 Going back to coding, the challenges of scaling
52:11 Outro
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Connect with Jerome:
📍 Jerome on Twitter: https://twitter.com/an_open_mind
📍 Jerome on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jpesenti/
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💬 Host: Lukas Biewald
📹 Producers: Riley Fields, Angelica Pan, Lavanya Shukla
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