Google Brain

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4 statements across 3 episodes · 3 bullish · 0 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Apr 25, 2023 by Noam Shazeer · said 17 times in 7 episodes since 2023 · across every show →

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brought up most by Liam Fedus (4), Sarah Guo (3), Noam Shazeer (3), Oriol Vinyals (2), Elad Gil (2), Kelvin Guu (1), Chelsea Finn (1), Aidan Gomez (1)

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Apr 25, 2023 positive
Insight
Deep Learning Succeeded Because It Matches Modern Chip Hardware
“Really the key insight is that what makes deep learning work is that it is really well suited to modern hardware where, you know, you have the current generation of chips that are great at Matrix multiplies and, you know, other, other forms of things that requ…”
Noam Shazeer Apr 25, 2023 ▶ 2:01 No Priors Ep. 12 | With Noam Shazeer
May 4, 2023 positive
Insight
Guu: Retrieval Models Best Serve Enterprise Needs Through Modularity and Privacy
“So it's actually been a case where I think more and more the benefits of a retrieval augmented model are for modularity. For personal information that you might not want in the main model, for adapting to, say, like an enterprise customer that has special info…”
Kelvin Guu May 4, 2023 ▶ 6:10 No Priors Ep. 15 | With Kelvin Guu, Staff Research Scientist, Google Brain
May 4, 2023 positive
Assertion Supported
Guu: BERT Demonstrated Vast Unprogrammed World Knowledge Purely From Pre-Training
“I think one of the things that became very apparent early on when playing with BERT was unlike all the prior generations of models, it had a large amount of world knowledge that we didn't deliberately encode into it. It wasn't in, you know, the fine tuning dat…”
Kelvin Guu May 4, 2023 ▶ 1:23 No Priors Ep. 15 | With Kelvin Guu, Staff Research Scientist, Google Brain
Aug 1, 2024 neutral
Assertion Supported
Vinyals: Gemini formed by merging parallel LLM efforts across Brain and DeepMind
“One was that the Gemini project was formed as a result of having two sort of Parallel efforts on LLMs, mostly led by Google Brain and what we now call Legacy DeepMind. So earlier in the year, there was an effort to merge the two projects, and that's when sort …”
Oriol Vinyals Aug 1, 2024 ▶ 0:54 No Priors Ep. 74 | With Google DeepMind VP of Research Oriol Vinyals
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