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Josh Albrecht

Co-founder & CTO, Imbue · 1 appearance on the record.

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Josh Albrecht is the co-founder and CTO of Imbue, an AI research lab developing reasoning-focused AI agents. He previously co-founded AI recruiting startup Sourceress, worked as an infrastructure engineer at Addepar, and is a general partner at Outset Capital.

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4 predictions · 1 assertion · 4 insights · 2 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertion are the 5 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 1 is resolved, 1 is not yet assessed, and 3 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Josh argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Prediction Held up
Albrecht: Narrow AI agents for email triage will work by late 2024
“Yeah, I think a year from now we're going to start to see some of these use cases actually work that today you could you can write these like we have the capabilities you can make some kind of agent to triage your email or to do scheduling or many of these wor…”
Josh Albrecht Nov 16, 2023 ▶ 22:22 No Priors Ep. 41 | With Imbue Co-Founders Kanjun Qiu and Josh Albrecht

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Everything Josh Albrecht said on No Priors that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Insight
Albrecht: Pure LLMs theoretically cannot learn general multiplication algorithms due to context
“Like, we know even in theoretical senses, like, they cannot learn to do multiplication in the general sense because it literally doesn't fit in the context window, right? Like, multiplication, they can learn to do addition in a modular sense, and they can lear…”
Josh Albrecht Nov 16, 2023 ▶ 11:24 No Priors Ep. 41 | With Imbue Co-Founders Kanjun Qiu and Josh Albrecht
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Albrecht: Imbue has sufficient compute to train state-of-the-art sized AI models
“We have enough compute to be able to train models that are as large as the largest models have been trained today to date.”
Josh Albrecht Nov 16, 2023 ▶ 27:03 No Priors Ep. 41 | With Imbue Co-Founders Kanjun Qiu and Josh Albrecht
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Albrecht: Imbue will hire fewer recruiting coordinators as internal agents handle scheduling
“Now, you know, I think probably within the next year, we'll probably, you know, not be hiring as many recruiting coordinators because, oh, we're going to do some of the scheduling with the agent that we've built, right?”
Josh Albrecht Nov 16, 2023 ▶ 28:36 No Priors Ep. 41 | With Imbue Co-Founders Kanjun Qiu and Josh Albrecht
Insight
Albrecht: The true promise of AI lies in autonomous agents, not chatbots
“Right now, you can ask some kind of chatbot something and it'll give you back a response, but the burden is sort of on you to go do something with that to verify whether it's correct or not. I think the real promise of AI is if we can get systems that can actu…”
Josh Albrecht Nov 16, 2023 ▶ 2:53 No Priors Ep. 41 | With Imbue Co-Founders Kanjun Qiu and Josh Albrecht
Insight
Albrecht: Repeatable AI agent workflows must progressively transition into explicit code
“And as you do things that you want to do more robustly and you want to do in a more repeatable way, then you want to move it more towards code, right? And so To the extent that you've never seen this task before, maybe you should be doing it in this more kind …”
Josh Albrecht Nov 16, 2023 ▶ 13:29 No Priors Ep. 41 | With Imbue Co-Founders Kanjun Qiu and Josh Albrecht
Insight
Albrecht: Imbue focuses on coding agents because objective evaluation is significantly easier
“One of the reasons why we work on code is that there are objective answers to a lot of these questions, either the test pass or they don't, either the function is correct or it isn't. Those kinds of things are much easier to evaluate.”
Josh Albrecht Nov 16, 2023 ▶ 18:25 No Priors Ep. 41 | With Imbue Co-Founders Kanjun Qiu and Josh Albrecht
Prediction Held up
Albrecht: Narrow AI agents for email triage will work by late 2024
“Yeah, I think a year from now we're going to start to see some of these use cases actually work that today you could you can write these like we have the capabilities you can make some kind of agent to triage your email or to do scheduling or many of these wor…”
Josh Albrecht Nov 16, 2023 ▶ 22:22 No Priors Ep. 41 | With Imbue Co-Founders Kanjun Qiu and Josh Albrecht
Prediction Open · timeframe Nov 2028
Albrecht: Users will create bespoke agents via natural language within five years
“And I think five years from now we're going to have something where it's not just you know, okay we have a scheduling bot we have this other thing but we really have these more general more robust systems where Each of us can individually say, like, I want a t…”
Josh Albrecht Nov 16, 2023 ▶ 22:39 No Priors Ep. 41 | With Imbue Co-Founders Kanjun Qiu and Josh Albrecht
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Albrecht: AI agents will dramatically improve codebase quality across the industry
“I think there'll just be a huge flourishing of much higher quality, better software as a result, not just more software, but just taking the existing software and making it so much better, which will make it so much nicer and more fun to interact with as progr…”
Josh Albrecht Nov 16, 2023 ▶ 31:11 No Priors Ep. 41 | With Imbue Co-Founders Kanjun Qiu and Josh Albrecht
Disclosure
Albrecht: A significant fraction of Imbue's $200M funding round will fund compute
“I mean, I think actually a significant fraction of that is going to go to compute.”
Josh Albrecht Nov 16, 2023 ▶ 24:53 No Priors Ep. 41 | With Imbue Co-Founders Kanjun Qiu and Josh Albrecht
Disclosure
Albrecht: Imbue is currently writing unit tests automatically using its AI agents
“We're writing unit tests literally right now automatically.”
Josh Albrecht Nov 16, 2023 ▶ 28:48 No Priors Ep. 41 | With Imbue Co-Founders Kanjun Qiu and Josh Albrecht

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
No Priors Ep. 41 | With Imbue Co-Founders Kanjun Qiu and Josh Albrecht Nov 16, 2023 10m
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