This is the first of a few pots that I will be doing on this area of AI generative AI and what it all means. So we're going to be diving into this in a few different ways over the next month or so. And so this is a great place to start with one of the OGs of AI and large language models, and all this just really fascinating stuff that is going on out there. Here he is, no mchizir, founder of character dot AI enjoy.
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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