Do you see this getting to a point where because it seems like one of the great kind of holy grails, not to get too religious, is this idea of like saying AI can get to a point? Do we understand how it gets from the prompt to the answer, like in deep learning, or is it we just say, here's a bunch of information. I don't think anybody really understands, you know, that well, how it works, just like nobody really understands how the brain works.
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Noam Shazeer, founder of Character.ai, to talk about his work at Google (4:00), joining the search giant in 2000 (6:50), what is deep learning (5:10), starting on language models in 2015 (9:10), starting the company in 2021 (10:50), virtual therapists (15:00), monetizing (20:40), what is possible (23:00), growing up coding and doing maths (31:00), winning the international Math Olympiad (32:20), how this compares to the Internet itself (34:30).
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