#156 AI Reality VS Speculation with Google Machine Learning Engineer Jiquan Ngiam

On this week's episode of the podcast, freeCodeCamp founder Quincy Larson interviews Jiquan Ngiam. He's a former Google Brain engineer who's building tools to make AI useful for everyone – not just developers. We talk about the power of AI and it's practical capabilities, and separate those from a lot of the hype surrounding the AI space.

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We talk about:

- How AI agents work
- Where AI is going and its limitations
- How non-developers can leverage AI
- And how developers can REALLY leverage AI

Can you guess what song I'm playing in the intro?

Links we talk about during our conversation:

- Jiquan's company, Lutra AI: https://lutra.ai/

- Jiquan's article on generative agentic interfaces for working with large spreadsheets: https://blog.lutra.ai/generative-interfaces-for-ai-agents

- Jiquan's article on OODA loops for AI Agents: https://blog.lutra.ai/ooda-loops-for-ai-agents

- A paper Jiquan mentions, Executable Code Actions Elicit Better LLM Agents: https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.01030