Noam Shazeer
15 statements across 3 episodes · 7 bullish · 1 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Aug 31, 2023 by Noam Shazeer · said 13 times in 5 episodes since 2023 · across every show →
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Aug 31, 2023 positive
Aug 31, 2023 positive
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Aug 31, 2023 neutral
Aug 31, 2023
Shazeer: Parenthood Made Me More Religious and Shifted Focus to Meaningful Work
“A lot of things about parenthood are absolutely terrific and super fun, but I think it made me more, more religious. I decided to take a change of attitude from, like, what is fun right now to I should be Thankful for having the opportunity, you know, to do so…”
Aug 31, 2023 bullish
Shazeer: The Best AI Applications Have Not Been Invented Yet
“The best applications just haven't even been invented yet that You know, we, you know, we're still at, like invention of electricity kind of moment, or invention of the computer, where we don't really you know, we don't really know what the coolest things are …”
Aug 31, 2023 negative
Shazeer: Naively Training Models on Raw Chat Logs Risks Leaking User Privacy
“It's very important because, like, you know, if you just were to do the naive thing of take, like, every conversation you had with everyone and just train on it, then You could just be, like, spitting out, like, someone's private, you know, private life to, yo…”
Aug 31, 2023
Shazeer: Centralized AI Inference Batching Is Up to 100x More Efficient
“Obviously though, there's also like economics of scale of both training the best models And serving, like if you want to serve a product, you can do it maybe a hundred times more efficiently if you're serving many, many people at once and kind of batching thin…”
Aug 31, 2023 positive
Aug 31, 2023 positive
Shazeer: Task-Specific Fine-Tuning Dramatically Improves Generally Pre-Trained AI Models
“The data that you get from users is great because It tells people like what, you know, what users like or like what users like in, in some particular application. It's kind of like a, you know, training a human. Like most of what's important is like you have y…”
Aug 31, 2023 neutral
Shazeer: Open and Closed AI Ecosystems Will Continue to Coexist
“As there has been, there will be a big ecosystem of open and closed of, you know, People who aren't sharing their secret sauce with, and people who are sharing all of their secret sauce and the ability to mess around with things at a small scale is going to le…”
Sep 15, 2023
Sep 15, 2023
Dec 15, 2025 positive
a16z paid growth prices for early-stage Character.AI to back Noam Shazeer
“My partner, Sarah led around a character AI and, you know, it was extremely early stage and, You know, we invested at a, you know, what you would call a gross stage price. But we knew that the likelihood of some degree of success in backing Nome was extremely …”