Schmidt Sciences

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Epic is partly funded by Schmidt Sciences.

So note the interest.

And the sharper economic point came from a commenter.

I'm joined today for the first time by two guests.

First, we have Haleh Sirin, a program scientist within the AI and Advanced Computing Institute of Schmidt Sciences, and also an assistant research professor in computer science at Johns Hopkins.

Haleh leads the AI Agents program at Schmidt Sciences, which aims to observe and measure the evolution of inter-agent communication and coordination, stability of predefined protocols, and social dynamics among AI agents in complex real-world scenarios.

A bit of a mouthful, and we can digest that, as this is the topic of today's discussion.

So firstly, welcome to the podcast, Haleh.

And second, we have Elias Stengeleskin, assistant professor in computer science at the University of Texas at Austin.

Elias is the lead principal investigator, which I'm sure throughout the conversation we'll refer to as PI going forwards.

So Elias is the PI for the agents program work, which our team at AE has been doing with Haleh and the broader Schmidt Sciences team to better understand emergent communication of AI agents.