Full-stack approach for effective AI agents

Practical AI: Machine Learning, Data Science, LLM

There’s a lot of hype about AI agents right now, but developing robust agents isn’t yet a reality in general. Imbue is leading the way towards more robust agents by taking a full-stack approach; from hardware innovations through to user interface. In this episode, Josh, Imbue’s CTO, tell us more about their approach and some of what they have learned along the way.

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Featuring:

• Josh Albrecht – Twitter, LinkedIn
• Chris Benson – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
• Daniel Whitenack – Twitter, GitHub, Website

Show Notes:

• CARBS (Imbue’s cost-aware hyperparameter optimizer)
• Imbue paper on the stepwise nature of self-supervised learning
• A paper on initialization/feature learning co-authored by Jamie Simon, a member of Imbue’s technical team
• Imbue

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Chapter

1. Welcome to Practical AI (00:00:00)

2. Josh Albrecht from Imbue (00:00:43)

3. Categorizing agents (00:04:50)

4. Making agents work (00:08:28)

5. Usecases for agents (00:11:47)

6. Full stack approach (00:13:56)

7. Research first (00:18:11)

8. Focusing on environments (00:20:55)

9. Fundamental laws to deep learning (00:24:11)

10. Sponsor: Neo4j (00:28:54)

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11. Engineering trust (00:30:02)

12. New interfaces (00:33:11)

13. Reviewable outputs (00:35:07)

14. Day to day coding with an agent (00:36:58)

15. Language context shifting (00:40:39)

16. Things to come (00:43:41)

17. Thanks for joining us! (00:45:50)

18. Outro (00:46:15)