Amazon AGI Lab

“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.”

“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…”

“Right now we're Building AI again for the people who are building AI. We're building AI for engineers, and we're all in our little echo chamber in the bay, and we're proud of ourselves for, you know, building AI.”

“I imagine that. In a matter of months, we will look back at today and we won't even be able to empathize with the mental models that we have right now because they are so over-indexed on chatbots and coding agents.”

“So ultimately reliability has less to do with clicking in the same place and scrolling and more to do with modeling the user's mind. And that shift is everything that reframes how we think about what it is that we're building.”

“The big idea is that human intelligence is collective. Anthropologists say that we've got the collective brain. No one individual is capable of even surviving on their own. We depend upon the collective. The intelligence emerges from our interactions. It's fun…”