"It's a lot harder to like solve problems in the abstract than people who don't actually, if you can't get your hands dirty," he says. "As the technology progresses, we should definitely be working on controllability stuff and it's great that now we have like some real practical problems to use for developing that part of the technology"
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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