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Jeff Dean: belief

12 Feb 2025 Dwarkesh Podcast Jeff Dean & Noam Shazeer — 25 years at Google: from PageRank to AGI

“I think I said, "You should think about deep neural nets. We're making some pretty good progress there.”

— Jeff Dean

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Speaker
Jeff Dean
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belief
Recorded
12 Feb 2025
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Dwarkesh Podcast

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…Yeah, it might look more like AI looked like 20 years ago but in the opposite direction. I'm not sure. I guess I joined Google Brain in 2012. I left Google for a few years, happened to go back for lunch to visit my wife, and we happened to sit down next to Jeff and the early Google Brain team. I thought, "Wow, that's a smart group of people." I think I said, "You should think about deep neural nets. We're making some pretty good progress there. " "That sounds fun." Okay, so I jumped back in……

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