Cohere's Chief Scientist, Joelle Pineau: Why Scaling Laws Will Continue & Future of Synthetic Data

Joelle Pineau is the Chief Scientist at Cohere, where she leads research on advancing large language models and practical AI systems. Before joining Cohere, she was VP of AI Research at Meta, where she founded and led Meta AI's Montreal lab. A professor at McGill University, Joelle is renowned for her pioneering work in reinforcement learning, robotics, and responsible AI development.

In Today's Episode We Discuss:

• How Meta Shaped How I Think About AI Research

• Challenges in Reinforcement Learning

• Is It Possible to be Capital Efficient in AI

• AI in Enterprise: Efficiency and Adoption

• Security Concerns with AI Agents

• Can Zuck Win By Buying the Galacticos of AI

• The Rising Cost of Data

• Synthetic Data and Model Degradation

• Why AI Coding is Akin to Image Generation in 2015

• If Joelle Was a VC Where Would She Invest?

• Lessons from Zuck, Biggest Mindset Shift