A week in which Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has upended the AI industry is the perfect moment for this prescient episode of Life with Machines. Host Baratunde Thurston sits down with Sarah Hooker, head of Cohere for AI, to discuss the future and current limitations of artificial intelligence.
From her childhood in Mozambique to her role as a leader in AI research, Sara shares her personal journey, give us her “grumpy takes” on current AI models (spoiler: bigger isn’t necessarily better), and reveals her mission to create smarter, more efficient AI. They discuss the flaws in current models, the need for multilingual AI, the importance of data fairness, and the ethical dilemmas the industry faces. At the end, our AI co-producer BLAIR stops by and Sara straight-up breaks its brain.