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Nemade: Google's early generative chatbot provided suicide methods and alcohol advice
“Like in the initial days of these generative models, as you can imagine, like we were trying to build an end-to-end model for a child bot. It would spew out all sorts of things like, Hey, what are 10 ways to do suicide? It'll give you like the best 10 ways to …”
Nemade: Google teams only noticed Transformer paper after citations grew
“I think once it started garnering a lot of citations over the months and quarters, that's when people started paying attention, even inside of Google that, Hey, this transformer architecture seems amazing.”
Nemade: BERT release triggered Google-wide rush to adopt transformers
“I think one thing that I remember specifically was the Transformers paper paper came out, but I think it started making a lot of noise when BERT was out. Like when people started seeing what BERT could essentially do. That was kind of Like a switch that went o…”
Nemade: Google built an interactive Darth Vader AI prototype by 2020
“So we build characters like Darth Vader so we would kind of how did we do it? We used some data from Darth Vader, so the dialogue delivery was kind of similar to Darth Vader, and then we hooked up Like a moving talking head of Darth Vader, and then you actuall…”