You can create a character which really can be as simple as just writing a greeting. And then all of a sudden you're chatting with Joe Biden and that Biden is basically, I would guess trained on all of Biden's public utterances or whatever. People are using this as like therapy and emotional support. We get all kinds of emails, things like, I have no friends, I was depressed. This makes me feel good. Like it like it really. But we haven't been focusing on use cases. We just launched something. So that's what I think is interesting. You put it out there. Yeah. And then you're like, well, let's see what happens. Exactly
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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