The Man Who Invented Prompt Engineering on AI, AGI & Humanoids w/ Richard Socher & Salim Ismail

In this episode, Richard, Salim, and Peter discuss the latest news in tech and AI including the LLM war, Grok’s update, and more.

Recorded on Feb 24th, 2025
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Richard Socher is the founder and CEO of you.com and co-founder and managing partner of AIX Ventures. Richard previously served as the Chief Scientist and EVP at Salesforce. Before that, Richard was the CEO/CTO of AI startup MetaMind, acquired by Salesforce in 2016. Richard received his Ph.D. in computer science at Stanford. He is widely recognized as having brought neural networks into the field of natural language processing, inventing the most widely used word vectors, contextual vectors, and prompt engineering. He has over 205,000 citations and served as an adjunct professor in the computer science department at Stanford.

Salim Ismail is a serial entrepreneur and technology strategist well known for his expertise in Exponential organizations. He is the Founding Executive Director of Singularity University and the founder and chairman of ExO Works and OpenExO.

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Chapters

00:00 - The Dawn of Digital Superintelligence
03:03 - Benchmarking AI Models: Grok 3 and Beyond
06:03 - Defining AGI: The Quest for True Intelligence
08:49 - The Open vs Closed AI Debate
11:51 - AI in Science: Accelerating Breakthroughs
14:52 - The Future of Quantum Computing
18:04 - AI and the Energy Infrastructure
20:58 - The Role of AI in Medicine and Longevity
36:56 - The Future of Energy and Intelligence
39:08 - Leadership Changes in AI Companies
41:11 - Investing in AI Startups
45:00 - The Evolution of Humanoid Robots
56:01 - The Role of Bitcoin in AI Transactions
01:05:03 - The Rise of Agentic AI

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