The Times Tech Podcast

Character.ai's Noam Shazeer: "Replacing Google - and your mom"

Feb 24, 2023

39:37

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Did You Study Computer Science?

01:45

How Did the International Math Olympiad Work?

01:35

How Long Did You Work at Google?

03:35

Introduction

4min

What's Going on With Large Language Models?

3min

Language Models - The Operating System for Humans

2min

How Long Did You Work at Google?

4min

Chat GPT

2min

What Is the Most Popular Character Right Now?

4min

Is There a Language Model That Can Play Any Role?

2min

The Game Football Podcast

2min

Are You Still Trying to Scale Up to Something Massive?

1min

10.

What's the Vision for AI?

3min

11.

The Singularity of Artificial Intelligence

2min

12.

Is AI Getting to a Point?

2min

13.

Is There Anything We Should Really Be Thinking Hard About?

2min

14.

Did You Study Computer Science?

2min

15.

How Did the International Math Olympiad Work?

2min

16.

Is There a Similar Moment Now With AI?

3min

17.

AGI, Artificial General Intelligence?

2min

18.

Shocker AI

2min

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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The Times Tech Podcast

Character.ai's Noam Shazeer: "Replacing Google - and your mom"

Did You Study Computer Science?

How Did the International Math Olympiad Work?

How Long Did You Work at Google?

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