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

The Times Tech Podcast

• Episode: Character.ai's Noam Shazeer: "Replacing Google - and your mom"
• Website: The Times Tech Podcast
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• Duration: 00:39:37
• Published: 2023-02-24 04:00

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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