I joined Google at the end of 2000. I built a few things that were considered AI for the time. And then in 2012 I came back and got on to this Google Brain project. When did you leave Google? I left in let's see, October 2021. So we raised some seed money to build this company we call character.
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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