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Your AI Friends Have Awoken, With Noam Shazeer
FromNo Priors: Artificial Intelligence | Technology | Startups
Your AI Friends Have Awoken, With Noam Shazeer
FromNo Priors: Artificial Intelligence | Technology | Startups
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Length:
30 minutes
Released:
Apr 13, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Noam Shazeer played a key role in developing key foundations of modern AI - including co-inventing Transformers at Google, as well as pioneering AI chat pre-chatGPT. These are the foundations supporting today’s AI revolution. On this episode of No Priors, Noam discusses his work as an AI researcher, engineer, inventor, and now CEO.
Noam Shazeer is currently the CEO and Co-founder of Character AI, a service that allows users to design and interact with their own personal bots that take on the personalities of well-known individuals or archetypes. You could have a socratic conversation with Socrates. You could pretend you’re being interviewed by Oprah. Or you could work through a life decision with a therapist bot. Character recently raised $150M from A16Z, Elad Gil, and others. Noam talks about his early AI adventures at Google, why he started Character, and what he sees on the horizon of AI development.
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Show Links:
Noam Shazeer - Google Scholar
Noam Shazeer - Chief Executive Officer - Character.AI | LinkedIn
Character.AI
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Show Notes:
[1:50] - Noam’s early AI projects at Google
[7:13] - Noam’s focus on language models and AI applications
[11:13] - Character’s co-founder Daniel de Freitas Adiwardana work on Google’s Lambda
[13:53] - The origin story of Character.AI
[18:47] - How AI can express emotions
[26:51] - What Noam looks for in new hires
Noam Shazeer is currently the CEO and Co-founder of Character AI, a service that allows users to design and interact with their own personal bots that take on the personalities of well-known individuals or archetypes. You could have a socratic conversation with Socrates. You could pretend you’re being interviewed by Oprah. Or you could work through a life decision with a therapist bot. Character recently raised $150M from A16Z, Elad Gil, and others. Noam talks about his early AI adventures at Google, why he started Character, and what he sees on the horizon of AI development.
No Priors is now on YouTube! Subscribe to the channel on YouTube and like this episode.
Show Links:
Noam Shazeer - Google Scholar
Noam Shazeer - Chief Executive Officer - Character.AI | LinkedIn
Character.AI
Sign up for new podcasts every week. Email feedback to show@no-priors.com
Follow us on Twitter: @NoPriorsPod | @Saranormous | @EladGil | @Character_ai
Show Notes:
[1:50] - Noam’s early AI projects at Google
[7:13] - Noam’s focus on language models and AI applications
[11:13] - Character’s co-founder Daniel de Freitas Adiwardana work on Google’s Lambda
[13:53] - The origin story of Character.AI
[18:47] - How AI can express emotions
[26:51] - What Noam looks for in new hires
Released:
Apr 13, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
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This is “No Priors”: AI is transforming our future, but what does that really mean? In ten years, will humans be forced to please our AGI overlords or will we have unlocked unlimited capacity for human potential? That's why Sarah Guo and Elad Gil started this new podcast, named No Priors. In each episode, Sarah and Elad talk with the leading engineers, researchers and founders in AI, across the stack. We'll talk about the technical state of the art, how that impacts business, and get them to predict what's next. by No Priors: Artificial Intelligence | Technology | Startups