P. Leman: There's a great debate about whether that's even a realistic possibility or if it's nonsense, but it does feel like there's any number of ways this can be deployed. You know, definitely our strategy is to work on general techniques because with dialogue systems, the old way is to build like these rule-based systems. So, we're not like targeting one specific situation, but build something that's going to improve thousands of use cases and take inspiration from one use case.
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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