Biography

Anmol Sood is the co-founder of Alai, a Y-Combinator backed startup, which allows people to create high quality presentations quickly using AI. Before founding Alai, he spent 5 years as a staff software engineer at Meta where he worked on building the recommendation system for Instagram Threads, Horizon Workrooms and Facebook Jobs. He has dealt extensively with leveraging the most recent breakthroughs in AI and VR research into useful, scalable and reliable products.

Talk Title: Building AI That Works: Challenges, Insights, and Practical Solutions

Abstract

In the last few years, we have witnessed rapid advancements in the fundamental capabilities of AI models. The AI landscape is evolving at an unprecedented pace, with significant improvements emerging every month. While these developments have unlocked numerous new opportunities, leveraging these models to create genuinely useful AI products remains a complex challenge.

Using practical examples, we will discuss some of these key challenges and how to approach them:

• Providing Context for AI Models: Making sure AI systems understand all the relevant context is critical.
• Choosing and Prompting AI Models: There are a large number of models and approaches possible in terms of how to prompt them.
• Human-AI Collaboration: Developing interfaces and controls that enable effective human-AI collaboration, recognizing the unique strengths of each.
• Monitoring and Safety: Strategies for ongoing monitoring, ensuring safety, and establishing feedback loops to continually improve AI systems.