Corey Knowles

Welcome, humans, to the Neuron AI Explained.

I'm your host, Corey Knowles, and I'm here as always alongside us with a spring in his step and a button as hard as our own Grant Harvey.

How are you today, my friend?

Our guest today is Nick Heiner, head of RL Environments at Surge AI, where he leads the company's reinforcement learning environments team.

Before Surge, Nick was a founding engineer at Fixie, a senior engineer at Netflix working on UI platforms, and part of the U.S.

Digital Service.

Nick, welcome to The Neuron.

Glad to have you.

Do you agree with that assessment?

Well, I guess to start at kind of the basics here to ensure everybody who's watching is on.

For the VCs.

For the VCs.

Let's keep it simple for the VCs.

When someone hears reinforcement learning environment, what do they picture?

Is it a data set, a simulated world in some way, a physical robot in a warehouse?

Something way cooler?

Makes me think of the thumbs up, thumbs down.

Do you like this personality button on chat GPT?

I see all the time.

That's a good call.