Gustav Söderström: Catapulting Spotify to the Front of the AI Revolution

Spotify’s personalized recommendations have set it apart from the pack of music streaming platforms for years. Those curated recommendations have only gotten stronger with the onset of AI, with the ability to power things like your own personal AI DJ. In this episode, Spotify’s Co-President, CPO & CTO, Gustav Söderström, joins host and Lightspeed Partner Michael Mignano to talk about building UX that can power more efficient AI, the future of AGI, and what the technology could look live over the next few iterations.  

Episode Chapters

(00:00) An introduction to Gustav Söderström

(01:29) How Spotify became one of the first consumer AI companies

(05:57) A philosophical shift: UI that works for AI, not the other way around

(12:52) “Talk is cheap, so do a lot of it”

(15:00) Building for the tech we will have, not the tech we do have

(19:43) What will AI do for media creation?

(25:00) The Wild West of model training

(29:45) How anthropomorphizing AI can help you understand its potential

(37:04) What happens when cognitive labor gets automated?

(40:42) How much more intelligent could AI get?

(47:45) Is AGI on the horizon, or already here?

(53:48) Should we be worried about AGI?

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