Learning in a Podcast Interview
Priya Dialani interviewed me for a podcast. Here’s the rough summary: What do you and Straive do? Straive builds AI and runs AI. I poke at LLMs to learn what they cannot do. My friend calls me an “LLM Psychopath”. Why do AI pilots get stuck before production? AI speeds up coding, but less of testing. Making sure it works can take months. Why organize enterprise knowledge? Better organized info is good for humans and agents. Duh! Can AI organize it? Yes! I’ve had it create one-line summaries of 10K+ docs on Straive Google Drive for easier searching. How can India’s GCCs benefit from AI? Put AI lovers next to business teams and give them AI agent access. They’ll solve asked and unasked problems. How does AI fail? Unanticipated things happen in production. So, have agents monitor failures and revise the process. How is AI software different? Normal software fails reproducibly. AI fails in new ways we haven’t fully understood. Where should a company start with AI? Skip AI strategy. Give people agent access, have them try it, and share what they learned. What if people don’t know what to try? Ask AI. “How could you improve my work?” Even rubbish ideas waste only 5 minutes. How much should we experiment? A lot! Generation is cheap. Ask for 10 options, not one. Who cares even if all 10 fail? But what happened outside of the interview was just as interesting. ...