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Jeff Dean

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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Dwarkesh Podcast
Jeff Dean & Noam Shazeer โ€“ 25 years at Google: from PageRank to AGI

Of course, there is learning that will require external data, but probably maybe we can just have this thing talk to itself and make itself smarter.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Jeff Dean & Noam Shazeer โ€“ 25 years at Google: from PageRank to AGI

It's a good question.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Jeff Dean & Noam Shazeer โ€“ 25 years at Google: from PageRank to AGI

Because I think probably...

Dwarkesh Podcast
Jeff Dean & Noam Shazeer โ€“ 25 years at Google: from PageRank to AGI

We did need to see the size of the opportunity often reflected in what other companies are doing.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Jeff Dean & Noam Shazeer โ€“ 25 years at Google: from PageRank to AGI

And also, it's not a fixed pie.

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Jeff Dean & Noam Shazeer โ€“ 25 years at Google: from PageRank to AGI

This is like the current state of the world is...

Dwarkesh Podcast
Jeff Dean & Noam Shazeer โ€“ 25 years at Google: from PageRank to AGI

pretty much as far from fixed pie as you can get.

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Jeff Dean & Noam Shazeer โ€“ 25 years at Google: from PageRank to AGI

I think we're going to see orders of magnitude of improvements in GDP, health, wealth, and anything else you can think of.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Jeff Dean & Noam Shazeer โ€“ 25 years at Google: from PageRank to AGI

So I think it's definitely been nice that Transformer has got around.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Jeff Dean & Noam Shazeer โ€“ 25 years at Google: from PageRank to AGI

Thank God Google is doing well as well.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Jeff Dean & Noam Shazeer โ€“ 25 years at Google: from PageRank to AGI

So these days we do publish a little less of what we're doing.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Jeff Dean & Noam Shazeer โ€“ 25 years at Google: from PageRank to AGI

I'd say, like, probably a big thing is, like, humility.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Jeff Dean & Noam Shazeer โ€“ 25 years at Google: from PageRank to AGI

Like, I'd say I'm, like, the most carnival ever.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Jeff Dean & Noam Shazeer โ€“ 25 years at Google: from PageRank to AGI

But seriously, you know, there's...

Dwarkesh Podcast
Jeff Dean & Noam Shazeer โ€“ 25 years at Google: from PageRank to AGI

To say, hey, what I just did is nothing compared to what I can do or what can be done.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Jeff Dean & Noam Shazeer โ€“ 25 years at Google: from PageRank to AGI

And to be able to drop an idea as soon as you see something better, like you hear somebody with some better idea and you see how maybe what you're thinking about, what they're thinking about, or something totally different can...

Dwarkesh Podcast
Jeff Dean & Noam Shazeer โ€“ 25 years at Google: from PageRank to AGI

it could conceivably work better.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Jeff Dean & Noam Shazeer โ€“ 25 years at Google: from PageRank to AGI

Because I think there is a drive, in some sense, to say, hey, the thing I just invented is awesome.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Jeff Dean & Noam Shazeer โ€“ 25 years at Google: from PageRank to AGI

Particularly if there's a lot of top-down resource assignment.

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Jeff Dean & Noam Shazeer โ€“ 25 years at Google: from PageRank to AGI

But I think we also need to incentivize people to say, hey, this thing I am doing,