About this episode

Ryan chats with Leo de Moura about proving correctness in AI agents using the Lean language.

Ryan chats with Leo de Moura, Senior Principal Applied Scientist at AWS and the creator of the Lean language, about proving correctness in AI agents with the Lean language, how automated reasoning complements probabilistic AI models, and the use of AI for continuous code optimization. Episode notes: Lean is a functional programming language and proof assistant that allows developers to write programs and verify their mathematical correctness within the exact same system. Connect with Leo on LinkedIn and check out his many badges on Stack Overflow . Congrats to Populist badge winner Peter Lawrey for winning the badge on their answer to Check two float/double values for exact equality . See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

People in this episode

Host: Ryan

Guest: Leo de Moura

Topics covered

• AI correctness
• Lean language
• automated reasoning
• probabilistic AI
• code optimization

Keywords

• AI
• Lean language
• correctness
• automated reasoning
• code optimization
• probabilistic models

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: AWS

Products: Lean

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