Astro Teller
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 28 Jul
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People, neural networks were considered almost dead as a field back in like 2009-ish time.
There were a few researchers who were figuring out things sort of like Andrew Ng was, but mostly it was considered dead as, like that is a dead end for the field of artificial intelligence.
But he noticed that every time he made his neural networks bigger, they got a little bit better.
And so he was just like, hey, I've got six points here.
It looks like maybe we could just keep making them bigger and they would keep getting better.
I wonder how much bigger we could make them.
And maybe that's just the solution to artificial intelligence.
The entire field of artificial intelligence didn't just say no.
They got angry at him.
And so he came to us and he said, hey, I have this observation.
What do you think?
And we said, come on in.
And so that was an exploration that turned out to be right.
So he paired up with Jeff Dean, who came over from Google to be at Google X. And the two of them built up Google Brain.
And it started, at least mainly around this observation,
I wonder how much bigger we could make it.
And at the time, making it hundreds of thousands of times bigger than had ever happened in a university was not something a university could even run as an experiment.
But we had at Google at the time the processing power and the expertise to actually try to make
what by today's standards is a tiny neural network.
But by those day's standards in 2010, late 2010 when we started Google Brain, it sounded crazy big.
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