Josh Albrecht is the co-founder and CTO of Generally Intelligent, an independent research lab investigating the fundamentals of learning across humans and machines. Previously, he was the lead data architect at Addepar, CTO of CloudFab, and CTO of Sourceress, which Generally Intelligent is a pivot from.Learn more about Josh:http://joshalbrecht.com/http://generallyintelligent.ai/Every Thursday I send out the most useful things I’ve learned, curated specifically for the busy machine learning engineer. Sign up here: https://www.cyou.ai/newsletterFollow Charlie on Twitter: https://twitter.com/CharlieYouAISubscribe to ML Engineered: https://mlengineered.com/listenComments? Questions? Submit them here: http://bit.ly/mle-surveyTake the Giving What We Can Pledge: https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/Timestamps:02:15 Introducing Josh Albrecht03:30 How Josh got started in computer science06:35 Josh's first two startup attempts09:15 The tech behind Sourceress, an AI recruiting platform16:10 Pivoting from Sourceress to Generally Intelligent, an AI research lab23:50 How Josh defines "general intelligence"28:35 Why Josh thinks self-supervised learning is the current most promising research area36:15 Generally Intelligent's immediate research roadmap: BYOL, simulated environments59:20 How Josh thinks about creating an optimal research environment01:11:35 The "why" behind starting an independent research lab01:13:30 AI alignment01:17:00 Rapid fire questionsLinks:Bootstrap your own latent: A new approach to self-supervised LearningUnderstanding self-supervised and contrastive learning with "Bootstrap Your Own Latent" (BYOL)BYOL works even without batch statisticsGenerally Intelligent PodcastConsequences of Misaligned AIWhy We SleepPeak