Jeff Dean

But then, yeah, it turned out to be...

be really, really fun, looked like a bunch of smart people doing good stuff.

And they had this really nice crayon chart on the wall of the daily number of search queries that somebody had just been maintaining.

And yeah, it looked very exponential.

I was like, these guys are going to be very successful.

And it looks like they have a lot of good problems to work on.

So I was like, OK, maybe I'll go work there for a little while and then have enough money to just go work on AI for as long as I want after that.

FRANCESC CAMPOY FLORES- Yeah, it totally worked out exactly according to my- MARK MANDELMANN- Sorry, you were thinking about AI in 1999?

Yeah, this was like 2000.

I remember in grad school, a friend of mine at the time had told me that his New Year's resolution for 2000 was to live to see the year 3000 and that he was going to achieve this by inventing AI.

I was like, that sounds like a good idea.

Then

You know, I didn't get the idea at the time that, oh, like, you could go do it at a big company.

But, you know, I figured, hey, you know, a bunch of people seem to be making a ton of money at startups.

Maybe I'll just make some money and then I'll have, you know, enough to live on and just work on AI research for a long time.

But, yeah, it actually turned out that Google was a terrific place to work in AI.

Yeah, yeah.

I mean, it feels like the algorithms are following the hardware.

Basically, what's happened is that at this point, arithmetic is very, very cheap.

And moving data around is comparatively much more expensive.