Demis Hassabis: evaluation

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…And I don’t want to dismiss that. There is a source of deep meaning across humans. So one of the incredible stories on the business, on the leadership side is what Google has done over the past year. So I think it’s fair to say that Google was losing on the LLM product side a year ago with Gemini 1.5 And now it’s winning, which… I’m Joe Biden. And you took the helm and you led this effort. What did it take to go from let’s say quote-unquote losing to quote-unquote winning, in the span of a year? Yeah, well firstly it’s absolutely incredible team that we have led by Corey and Jeff Dean and Oriole and the amazing team we have on Gemini. Absolutely. So you can’t do it without the best talent. And of course we have a lot of great compute as well. But then it’s the research culture we’ve created and basically coming together both different groups in Google that was Google Brain, World-class team, and then the old DeepMind, and pulling together all the best people and the best ideas and gathering around to make the absolute greater system we could. And it was been hard, but we’re all very competitive and we love research. This is so fun to do, and it’s great to see our trajectory. It wasn’t a given, but we’re very pleased with where we are and the rate of progress is the most important thing. So if you look at where we’ve come to from two years ago to one year ago to now, I think we call it relentless progress. Along with relentless shipping of that progress is being very successful and it’s unbelievably competitive, the whole space, the whole AI space, with some of the greatest entrepreneurs and leaders and companies in the world, all competing now because everyone’s realized how important AI is. And it’s very been pleasing for us to see that progress. Google’s a gigantic company. Can you speak to the natural things that happen in that case is the bureaucracy that emerges? You want to be careful the natural, there’s meetings and there’s managers and that. What are some of the challenges from a leadership perspective, breaking through that in order to, like you said, ship? Like the number of products, Gemini related products that has been shipped over the past years is insane.…

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