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How Google, Facebook, and other tech companies developed their AI – Interview with Cade Metz
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Cade Metz is a technology correspondent with The New York Times, covering artificial intelligence, driverless cars, robotics, virtual reality, and other emerging areas. He was previously a senior staff writer with Wired magazine. He’s recently published a book based on his research into the technology world and we spoke about how artificial intelligence has been developed and used by major tech companies. Genius Makers: The Mavericks Who Brought AI to Google, Facebook, and the World (Dutton, 2021)
0:37 – Cade talks about being a technology journalist.
1:16 – Cade talks about neural networks.
2:50 – Cade talks about Jeff Heaton and speech recognition.
4:49 – Cade talks about the details of a neural network.
6:43 – Cade talks about the computing power and data needed to create neural networks.
7:58 – Cade talks about the use of the data that is processed.
9:36 – Cade talks about how fringe the neural network concept was.
11:51 – Cade talks about the movement from the academic world to the corporate world.
13:38 – Cade talks about innovation and intellectual property.
14:41 – Cade talks about the global companies the book covers.
16:10 – Cade talks about personnel turnover between these companies and the idealism among some of the researchers.
18:31 – Cade talks about the improvements being made in artificial intelligence.
21:54 – Cade talks about how Amazon does its research.
22:40 – Cade talks about neural networks learning from text.
24:31 – Cade talks about the improvement in query services.
26:02 – Cade explains why the term neural is used in this technology.
27:14 – Cade talks about the various academics used to develop this technology.
28:57 – Cade talks about surveillance fears about this technology.
32:20 – Cade talks about imagery data making this technology more powerful.
33:05 – Cade talks about the research he did for the book.
33:32 – Cade talks about dealing with people getting upset with his research.
34:13 – cade explains that most of the researchers in this field were not researching in the US.
35:31 – Cade talks about the impact of immigration policies on this research.
36:40 – Cade talks about using this technology to create new things.
38:22 – Cade talks about the national security issues with artificial intelligence.
40:30 – Cade talks about quantum computing and artificial intelligence.
42:36 – Cade talks about the sale of Heaton’s services.
43:51 – Cade talks about some of the factors in Heaton’s decision.
45:11 – Cade talks about some of the decisions that surprised him.
46:49 – Cade talks about leadership turnover in these tech companies.
48:16 – Cade talks about Elon Musk’s efforts in AI.
50:37 – Cade talks about the emotional aspects of this story.
53:17 – Cade talks about Jeff Heaton’s style of humor.
56:51 – Cade is @cademetz on twitter and has a writer’s page on the NY Times.
Links of interest
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/565698/genius-makers-by-cade-metz/
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Guests: Cade Metz
Host: Cris Alvarez
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