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Jeff Dean: belief

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

“You could hand-specify these characteristics, but I think you don't know exactly what the right proportions of these kinds of connections are so you should just let the hardware dictate things a little bit.”

— Jeff Dean

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Speaker
Jeff Dean
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Claim type
belief
Recorded
12 Feb 2025
Publisher
Dwarkesh Podcast

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…Ooh maybe. Yeah, I'd like that to emerge organically. You could hand-specify these characteristics, but I think you don't know exactly what the right proportions of these kinds of connections are so you should just let the hardware dictate things a little bit. Like if you're communicating over here and this data always shows up really early, you should add some more connections, then it'll take longer and show up at just the right time. This is so interesting, and I don't want to lose this thread, but give me one moment.…

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