AI Reality VS Speculation with Google Machine Learning Engineer Jiquan Ngiam [Podcast #156]

On this week's episode of the podcast, I interview Jiquan Ngiam. He's a former Google Brain engineer who's building tools to make AI useful for everyone – not just developers.

We talk about the power of AI and it's practical capabilities, and separate those from a lot of the hype surrounding the AI space.

We talk about:

• How AI agents work

• Where AI is going and its limitations

• How non-developers can leverage AI

• And how developers can REALLY leverage AI

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Links we talk about during our conversation:

• Jiquan's company, Lutra AI: https://lutra.ai/

• Jiquan's article on generative agentic interfaces for working with large spreadsheets: https://blog.lutra.ai/generative-interfaces-for-ai-agents

• Jiquan's article on OODA loops for AI Agents: https://blog.lutra.ai/ooda-loops-for-ai-agents

• A paper Jiquan mentions, Executable Code Actions Elicit Better LLM Agents: https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.01030