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Product-Led AI: Adept CEO David Luan on Upleveling Human Work

2024/5/15
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David Luan:我最初对机器人感兴趣,但早期的AI技术并不成熟,所以我决定进入研究领域。在OpenAI,我看到了AI从独立研究到大规模项目的转变。在谷歌,我看到了AI模型产品化的初步尝试。为了实现通用人工智能,我们需要一个整合研究、工程和产品的组织结构,因此我决定创办Adept。 David Luan:许多人将AI视为取代人类、追求经济价值的竞赛,但我对此持有不同看法。AI不应被视为一场竞赛,而应被视为一种可以提升人类能力的工具。通过构建为人类服务的AI系统,我们可以创造新的认知技术,从而提升人类的能力。人类擅长于思考“做什么”、“为什么做”以及“与谁协调”,而AI可以帮助我们摆脱繁琐的执行工作。 David Luan:Adept是一个AI代理,可以帮助人类在计算机上完成任何他们需要做的事情。真正的AI代理应该能够根据目标采取行动,而不仅仅是聊天机器人。Adept致力于让知识工作者拥有AI队友,帮助他们完成任务,提升工作水平。Adept的目标是让AI成为可以协作、解决问题和执行任务的队友。 David Luan:Adept垂直整合了基础模型和代理产品,与其他公司有所不同。Adept的基础多模态模型专门为代理用例设计,具有更强的用户界面理解能力。Adept的模型专注于知识工作,对企业用户更有价值。对于企业级代理,重要的是遵循标准操作程序并获得信任。Adept的架构包括指令跟随层和用户界面,以便人类可以轻松监督代理的行为。AI代理的用户体验不应该是聊天机器人,而应该能够让人类轻松监督代理的行为。 David Luan:模型训练领域正在快速商品化,长期来看,能够差异化数据生成方式的公司将具有巨大优势。通过端到端优化基础模型与代理用例,Adept正在收集代理数据,使整个系统更加智能。从最聪明的知识工作者那里学习,可以获得更有价值的数据。对于代理任务,可靠性至关重要。 David Luan:AI的概念将逐渐淡化,所有公司都将成为AI公司,专注于客户和市场。大部分代理任务都是高度定制化的,Adept希望能够处理这些定制化的任务。代理的稳定状态将重塑计算机的使用方式,因此设计至关重要。代理的未来是人类与机器上的一个或一组代理进行协调和交互。如果代理像人类一样使用计算机,那么我们可以使用现有的基础设施。训练和运行代理所需的计算量将是巨大的。人们愿意为代理完成知识工作支付高昂的推理费用,因此我们将看到人们投资于强大的数据中心。

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David Luan's journey from robotics and research to co-founding Adept is discussed. He explains the shift in AI from independent research to large-scale projects and the realization that a product-centric approach is crucial for achieving AGI. The lack of existing organizational structures that combined research and product development led to the creation of Adept as a startup.
  • David Luan's early interest in robotics and his shift to AI research.
  • His roles at OpenAI and Google Brain, focusing on LLMs.
  • The realization that a product-centric approach is essential for AGI and the subsequent founding of Adept.

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Guest episode of Product-Led AI, a new podcast series hosted by Greylock partner Seth Rosenberg featuring conversations with leading AI builders.

Adept CEO and co-founder David Luan has been riding the LLM wave since the early days of the modern AI boom: an early OpenAI employee, he led the company’s engineering team before serving as the tech lead for Google Brain’s work on LLMs. He co-founded Adept in 2022 to develop multimodal agents built to work alongside humans in any profession. Believing computers should work more like humans and not the other way around, Adept has stood out for its human-centric approach to AGI. 

In this episode, David talks about the moment he realized building a new product (and a startup) was a faster track to AGI; breaks down the frameworks for Adept; and shares his view of a future where AI functions almost invisibly below all software we use. 

Check out the whole series at productledaipod.com

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