The model we're serving now cost us about $2 million in compute time to train. It would have been a lot more, you know, certainly. I think it's just been a problem of people just haven't seen like how valuable the thing would potentially be. The fun part is that we really have not told people what to do with it.
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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