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Why He Left Google DeepMind at the Peak of AI Hype (Aleksa Gordić) - KNN Ep. 156

Ken's Nearest Neighbors

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How I Got Interrupted in Technology

I was not really into technology because nobody from my environment, including my parents, nobody was techy. I enrolled in electrical engineering faculty because it was considered the farthest thing and that was really just attracted to hard things. After a year of learning computer vision and ML on Coursera, like classic stuff, like Andrzein, all of that started reading papers then slowly got his way to an ML, ML role at DeepMind. It was even more like learning and then pandemic and a stroke at that point, that was, I guess, early 2019. Now he's building his own startup.

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