Jeff Dean: belief

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…Yeah. At work. Yeah. I think the early sort of four or five years at Google when I was one of a handful of people working on search and crawling and indexing systems, our traffic was growing tremendously fast. We were trying to expand our index size and make it so we updated it every minute instead of every month, or two months if something went wrong. Seeing the growth in usage of our systems was really just personally satisfying. Building something that is used by two billion people a day is pretty incredible. But I would also say equally exciting is working with people on the Gemini team today. I think the progress we've been making in what these models can do over the last year and a half is really fun. People are really dedicated, really excited about what we're doing. I think the models are getting better and better at pretty complex tasks. Like if you showed someone using a computer 20 years ago what these models are capable of, they wouldn't believe it. And even five years ago, they might not believe it. And that's pretty satisfying. I think we'll see a similar growth in usage of these models and impact in the world. Okay, so a couple of questions. One, suppose Noam makes another breakthrough, and now we've got a better architecture. Would you just take each compartment and distill it into this better architecture? And that's how it keeps improving over time?…

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