Evidence receipt / belief
Published · transcript-backedJeff Dean: belief
12 Feb 2025 Dwarkesh Podcast Jeff Dean & Noam Shazeer — 25 years at Google: from PageRank to AGI
“Yeah, I mean, I think most things you don't even try to stack because the initial experiment didn't work that well, or it showed results that aren't that promising relative to the baseline.”
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- Jeff Dean
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- 12 Feb 2025
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
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…It happens 50% of the time. Yeah, I mean, I think most things you don't even try to stack because the initial experiment didn't work that well, or it showed results that aren't that promising relative to the baseline. Then you sort of take those things and you try to scale them up individually. Then you're like, "Oh yeah, these ones seem really promising." So I'm going to now include them in something that I'm going to now bundle together and try to advance and combine with other things that seem promising. Then you run the experiments and then you're like, "Oh, well, they didn't really work that well. Let's try to debug why." And then there are trade offs, because you want to keep your integrated system as clean as you can, because complexity –…
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