Adept AI

also referred to as: adept

7 statements across 3 episodes · 5 bullish · 0 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Mar 27, 2024 by David Luan · said 57 times in 11 episodes since 2023 · across every show →

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brought up most by Alessio Fanelli (24), David Luan (11), Shawn Wang (9), Stanislas Polu (1), Matei Zaharia (1), Danielle Perszyk (1)

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Mar 27, 2024 bullish
Insight
Luan: AGI means performing any task a human can do on a computer
“I think agents are just absolutely the correct long-term direction, right? You just go to find what AGI is, right? You're like, hey, like, Well, first off, actually, I don't love AGI definitions that involve human replacement because I don't think that's actua…”
David Luan Mar 27, 2024 ▶ 4:34 Why Google failed to make GPT-3 -- with David Luan of Adept
Mar 27, 2024
Insight
Luan: Agent failures often stem from unreliable actuators, not models
“Everyone under values the importance of really good sensors and actuators. And actually a lot of what's helped us get a lot of reliability is like a really strong focus on like, actually, why does the model not do this thing? And the non-trivial amount of time…”
David Luan Mar 27, 2024 ▶ 36:19 Why Google failed to make GPT-3 -- with David Luan of Adept
Mar 27, 2024
Insight
Real-world computer workflows with end-to-end API coverage are close to zero
“If you go itemize out the number of things you want to do on your computer for which every step has an API those numbers of workflows add up pretty close to zero.”
David Luan Mar 27, 2024 ▶ 31:53 Why Google failed to make GPT-3 -- with David Luan of Adept
Mar 27, 2024 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Luan: Everyone will have an AI teammate at work within years
“I think in a couple years everyone's going to have access to, like, an AI teammate that they can delegate Arbitrary tasks do at work, and then also be able to, you know, use it to the sounding board and like just be way, way, way more productive”
David Luan Mar 27, 2024 ▶ 16:14 Why Google failed to make GPT-3 -- with David Luan of Adept
Nov 11, 2024 bullish
Opinion
Polu: The bulk of useful enterprise agent work can use APIs
“The bulk of the useful stuff that you can do within the company can be done through API. The data can be retrieved by API, the actions can be taken through API.”
Stanislas Polu Nov 11, 2024 ▶ 32:30 Agents @ Work: Dust.tt — with Stanislas Polu
Jul 11, 2026 positive
Disclosure
Perszyk: Amazon AGI Lab imported Adept's mission to automate any task
“Amazon AGI Lab is building human-aligned intelligence, and starting with AI that can do anything that a human can do on a computer, that was Adepth's original mission, and we kind of imported it and seeded the lab.”
Danielle Perszyk Jul 11, 2026 ▶ 5:22 Why AI Agents Don't Actually Understand You — Danielle Perszyk, Amazon AGI Lab
Jul 11, 2026 positive
Disclosure
Perszyk: Adept negotiated an insulated startup model within Amazon AGI Lab
“Yeah, so I came with the original adept folks, and when we came, we convinced leadership that in order to do frontier level research, we really needed to keep an operating model that was more like a startup. We needed to insulate our research and be able to fo…”
Danielle Perszyk Jul 11, 2026 ▶ 11:31 Why AI Agents Don't Actually Understand You — Danielle Perszyk, Amazon AGI Lab
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