Astro Teller

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540 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 28 Jul

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And that's really how we got started was the bigger we made it, the more it seemed to work.

And there were lots of questions like, how do you distribute the training of this thing across lots of machines?

Because if we had trained it on one machine, it just would have taken forever to train.

Computers were a lot slower back then.

So that's kind of the little glimmer that started Google Brain.

Another little soapbox just because it bothers me that there's so many visionaries who tell you how the world's going to be.

Nobody, nobody knows.

That's the actual answer.

You can explore into the world efficiently or not efficiently, but nobody just gets to like tell you, oh, I know how it is.

There's like a whole, you know, class of people who think they know the answer.

But if you average it all together, you just get zero, right?

Because...

If they all said the same thing, it wouldn't be interesting.

And like to ground this, I think about the following all the time.

I went to a museum exhibit.

This was in the late 90s at the Carnegie Museum of Art.

And they were doing...

an exhibit on the history of aluminum in art and architecture and product design, sorry, product design and architecture.

And in the corner in this exhibit, there was a hat stand and it was made of wood.

And I was like, that's weird.

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