People have been talking for years and years and years about the singularity when we all merge with AI, whatever it may be. Do you think that's nonsense or what do you think? We're separating that out in terms of the potential limits, which I mean, are we like scratching the surface right now? You know, this we might be seeing like the first airplane, right flyer version of neural language models.
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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