Character.ai's Noam Shazeer: "Replacing Google - and your mom"

The Times Tech Podcast

Will Morley

Business, Unknown, Technology

4.9 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Noam Shazeer, founder of Character.ai, to talk about his work at Google (4:00), joining the search giant in 2000 (6:50), what is deep learning (5:10), starting on language models in 2015 (9:10), starting the company in 2021 (10:50), virtual therapists (15:00), monetizing (20:40), what is possible (23:00), growing up coding and doing maths (31:00), winning the international Math Olympiad (32:20), how this compares to the Internet itself (34:30).

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0:36.2	about? I mean, I think we're at potentially a much bigger moment.
0:39.3	The internet was the dawn of universally accessible information.
0:44.3	Yes.
0:45.3	And this is sort of the minds of the top people in tech.
1:10.1	I'm your host, Danny Ford's in the West Coast correspondent for the Sunday Times.
1:14.5	And this week, we are, as promised, going to talk about AI.
1:20.2	And Wu Nellie, do we have a great guest.
1:24.6	His name is Nome Shazir.
1:26.7	He's the founder of a startup called character.a.
1:31.6	Which is in the process of raising a reported $250 million at a $1 billion valuation.
1:38.6	Noam wouldn't confirm that, but that's what's out there in the world, which is not bad going,
1:43.0	given that the company is a year old and employs less than 20 people.
1:47.8	But as we all know, AI is the thing right now with Chad GBT and Dali and Mid Journey and stable diffusion and all the other stuff.
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