Group of ML experts from big tech to create Adept.AI

David Luan, former director of Google research, in his series of Twitter threads, spoke about how extremely talented ML folks from big tech companies have come together to form Adept.ai. The tech company is focusing on building a foundational general artificial intelligence product. 

David, in his tweet, says that their team has invested a lot of time in creating the software tools to get the work done. Instead of replacing these tools, he said the team wanted to build a natural language interface for all of them and an NL fronted to the computer. David added that it was just three months since they launched, and they have built a lot. He invited those interested in building foundational general AI products to solve general intelligence.

A blog by Kyle Wrigger from TechCrunch says the new team claims to have cracked the code to a universal AI assistant, or at least to have gotten a little bit closer. He said that Adept emerged from USD 65 million funding and is building general intelligence to enable humans and computers to work together creatively to solve problems.

Kyle further says that Adept’s co-founders, CEO David Lucan, CTO Niki Parmar and chief scientist Ashish Vaswani, are working on perfecting an overlay that would respond to commands like “generate a monthly compliance report” or “draw stairs between these two points in this blueprint,” Adept asserts, all using existing software like Airtable, Photoshop, Tableau and Twilio, to get the job done.