Gareth Paul Jones
Gareth Paul Jones · Product Lead, AI at Poe

What should
an AI agent
actually do?

It's a product question as much as a technical one. I work on AI at Poe, with a background in developer experience and platform ecosystems.

Explore three practical questions ↓
A study in signals

Different filters.
Different observations.
One underlying source.

An illustrative optical study, paired with a talk on combining imperfect reward signals.

From questions to practice.

The question

Can several imperfect signals produce a more useful training objective?

A practical look at model behavior, reward design, and the information each signal contributes.

Featured talk · Model behavior

Building a Multi-Signal
Reward Function

Working through how several imperfect signals can produce a more useful training objective.

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The experience
behind the questions.

Product and research, APIs and developer tools: different ways of looking at how technology becomes useful.

2024–present

Poe / Quora

Leading AI product work, with a focus on turning model behavior into products people can understand and use.

2023–2024

Zoom

Research product work on AI Companion, speech, and applied machine learning.

2020–2023

Twilio

Developer experience across the API platform, SDKs, and command-line tools.

2016–2020

Foursquare

Product and engineering for the Places API and partner ecosystem.

Earlier chapters
Twitter · Developer Relations Lead · 2013–2016Apple · Product Manager · 2011–2013Google · Associate Product Manager · 2009–2011