AI's Research Frontier: Memory, World Models, & Planning — With Joelle Pineau

The discussion centers on the cutting edge of AI research, focusing on memory, world models, and reasoning. Joelle Pineau, Chief AI Officer at Cohere, addresses concerns about AI research hitting a wall, emphasizing the importance of memory, particularly in selective information retrieval. She also highlights the need for AI to build world models for predicting the effects of actions, whether in physical or digital environments, and to improve reasoning efficiency by planning at different levels of granularity. Pineau suggests that AI's potential is underutilized due to factors like efficiency trade-offs, organizational mismatches, and unencoded intelligence. She also touches on the future of AI, discussing the balance between centralized development by tech giants and the emergence of smaller players with unique focuses, such as multilingual models.