Jeff Dean & Noam Shazeer — 25 years at Google: from PageRank to AGI

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paulmist · 2026-06 · Recommendation

I first saw Noam on Dwarkesh’s podcast together with Jeff Dean. Recommend if you want a taste of what’s Google’s folks take on things. [VIDEO]

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DarkCrusader2 · 2026-02 · Criticism

Yeah I also don't understand how he is able to get such high profile guests. His interview with Jeff Dean and Noam Shazeer last year[1] is so hilariously bad. Jeff and Noam kept trying to give really insightful answers on how they see AI development shaping in coming years and he was just steering the conversation to shallow and silly tabloid gossip (why don't you "just" let AI improve the next version in a loop so we can quickly have singularity, Jeff Dean AI running in a DC, evil Jeff Dean AI escaping containment and on and on). It was just embarrassing. The interview would have been so much better with just Jeff and Noam without him. [1] [VIDEO]

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sosodev · 2025-11 · Reference

Here's some insight from Jeff Dean and Noam Shazeer's interview with Dwarkesh Patel [VIDEO] > When you think about divulging this information that has been helpful to your competitors, in retrospect is it like, "Yeah, we'd still do it," or would you be like, "Ah, we didn't realize how big a deal transformer was. We should have kept it indoors." How do you think about that? > Some things we think are super critical we might not publish. Some things we think are really interesting but important for improving our products; We'll get them out into our products and then make a decision.

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