I'm so fascinated by the actual technology that I have to hate it, but where are you from? I was born in Philadelphia and grew up near Boston. This has always been my thing. It feels like one of the brewing debates about how this is going to develop is open source versus proprietary models. Yeah, I guess as people see that you can make money on it, I think most of the organizations are going to be less prone to publish.
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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